What happens when you want to change the owner of an account in Google Search Console? What if you want to add new delegated owners? These are common situations that occur in our daily lives and that we should know how to solve. In this article we will tell you step by step how to manage users in Google Search Console.
What is Google Search Console?
You probably already know what Google Search Console is, but just in case you're new and just starting out in SEO, Google Search Console is the official truemoney database Google platform that centralizes the organic management of a website. It offers us specific information about a domain or set of domains. It's very important to know how to use it and interpret the information it generates.
Among its most important uses we find:
View organic clicks, impressions and clicks
Coverage errors related to problems or errors detected by Google on your website.
Upload your sitemaps so they are crawled by Google.
Inspect specific URLs to gain insight into their interpretation in search results.
Mobile usability specific data.
Temporary removal of URLs from search results.
All of these options can be used by users who must first be verified or added to the project in question. Performing this verification or transferring ownership is very simple, as long as we know in which section we should make these changes.
How can I verify a property in Google Search Console?
All Google Search Console accounts require a pre-verification to access data. This prevents other users without permission from accessing sensitive information on the website in question. The verified owner will be the one who can grant access to new users, as well as their role.
Verifying users in Search Console is very simple, as long as we correctly follow the necessary steps specified by the platform.
First of all, you should know that the data has a 16-month expiration date. This data will be stored as long as there is at least one user registered on the platform. If there is no user, those days when there was no one will be lost. On the other hand, if there was a user for a period of time, then he was deleted and a few months passed until a new user was registered, the latter will have access to the previous data that was stored by the old user who existed, as long as 16 months have not passed. We will not be able to see the days when there was no one. That period will not be shown in the graphs.
When there is already a verified owner
Verifying users in Search Console is very simple. If there is already a previous owner, we will ask them to add us to the Google Search Console account. We will go to the side menu of the platform, settings/users and permissions. Within that section we will have to enter the email of the person we want to add and their role in the platform.