What is Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters, which helps them troubleshoot problems with their website. It also allows SEOs and site owners to:

• Check the crawling and indexing status of a website
• Use the Performance report to understand the organic search visibility
• Monitor the mobile-friendliness of a website and so much more!

Google does have a public API for Search Console. At the moment Lumar only uses organic search analytics data from the API in our integration.

Setting up a Google Account in Lumar

There are two ways a user can connect to a Google Account in Lumar, through the Connected App page or the Lumar property settings in a Project within the Sources step.

Connect Apps method

1. Navigate to the Connected Apps page.

2. Click on the “ADD GOOGLE ACCOUNT” button

3. Login to your Google Account which has the Google Search Console profiles you want to include in crawls.

4. In the Connected Apps page, users can manage what Google accounts are connected in Lumar.

5. Once a Google account is connected, navigate to the Sources settings in the project you want to include Google Search Console data in and select the Google Search Console source (blue tick will appear when selected).

6. Select the Google Search Console view you want to use in project crawls, the selected view will then appear on the right of the list.

7. That’s it, Lumar will now fetch URLs found in Google Search Console during the crawl.

Lumar property settings

1. In the Sources settings in a Project scroll down to the Search Console source.

2. Select the Google Search Console source (green tick appears when selected).

3. Click on the “ADD GOOGLE ACCOUNT” button.

4. Login to your Google Account which has the Google Search Console properties you want to include in crawls.

5. Finally, select the Google Search Console property you want to use in project crawls, the selected view will then appear on the right.

6. That’s it, Lumar will now fetch URLs from the chosen property in Google Search Console during the crawl. 

By default the date range for Google Search Console data is 100 days. The pages fetched from the API can still be filtered based on specific keywords such as brand or non-brand keywords. A user can do this in the project setup under the “Configure Google Search Console” settings.

Does Lumar support the new Search Console Domain properties verification?

Google recently updated the domain property types within Google Search Console and introduced ‘domain properties’ to include all subdomains and protocols of one domain. This will allow users to verify and collect data for a whole domain in one report and uses the DNS method of verification.

Following this update, at the current time, Lumar only supports URL prefix properties which have been verified using historic methods such as the HTML tag, HTML file upload, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager verification methods.

Does Lumar connect to Bing, Yandex, or Baidu Search Console/Webmaster tools?

No, we only support Google Search Console at this time.

Is it possible to add multiple Google Accounts to Lumar?

Yes, Lumar allows multiple Google Accounts to be added. Also, any profiles in Google Console will be consolidated into one list in the Sources settings.

For example all the Google Search Console profiles under seo@gmail.com and marketing@gmail.com would be consolidated into one list in the Analytics Source settings in a project set up.