How to Add a User to Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a free web service provided by Google that helps website owners, webmasters, and SEO professionals monitor and maintain their site’s presence in Google Search results. It provides tools to submit sitemaps, view crawling and indexing status, see search traffic, and more.

You might need to add a user to Google Search Console if you want to grant access to your website’s data and tools to other team members, SEO experts, web developers, or content managers. This allows them to analyze the site’s performance in search results and make necessary improvements.

There are two permission levels: ‘Full’ and ‘Restricted’. A Full user can view all data and perform most configuration tasks such as adding new users. A Restricted user can view most data but cannot perform configuration tasks.

Yes, you can add users with non-Gmail addresses, but they must have a Google Account associated with that email address. Google Accounts can be created with any email address.

Yes, you can change the permission level of a user after they have been added by going to the ‘Users and permissions’ section under ‘Settings’ and clicking on the user you want to edit. From there, you can change their permission level.

No, a user with Restricted access can only view data and cannot perform configuration tasks like adding or removing users. Only users with Full access have the ability to add or remove other users.

Google has not specified a limit to the number of users you can add to a single Google Search Console property. However, it’s a good practice to only add users that need access, for security and management reasons.

To remove a user, go to ‘Settings’, then click on ‘Users and permissions’. Find the user you want to remove, click the three-dot menu next to their name, and select ‘Remove access’. Confirm the action if prompted.

Yes, when you add a user to Google Search Console, they will receive an email notification informing them that they have been granted access to the property.

Google Search Console does not have a feature to set an expiry date for user access. If you need to grant temporary access, you would have to manually remove the user when their access is no longer needed.