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Lumar Integration: Google Search Console

Sarah Yoon
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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:

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.

 

How To Set Up Google Analytics in Lumar

1. Navigate to the Connected Apps page by clicking the user options in the top right of the screen and choosing ‘Connected apps’. NOTE: You can also click 'Add Google Account' in step 2 of the crawl setup to go through this process.

Screenshot of the Lumar user options with the Connected Apps option highlighted.

2. Click on the ‘+ Add account’ button.

Screenshot of a section of the connected apps screen in Lumar, with the Add Account button highlighted.

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

Screenshot of the Google choose account screen.

4. In the Connected Apps page, you can also manage which Google Accounts are connected in Lumar.

Screenshot of a section of the connected apps screen in Lumar, showing a Google Account connected for Analytics and Search Console.

5. Once a Google account is connected, navigate to the Sources settings in the project you want to include GSC data in and select the Google Search Console source (a purple tick will appear when selected). You'll see the available GSC views on the left-hand side, and use the checkbox on the left-hand side to select the view you need, which will then move to the right.

Screenshot of step 2 of the Lumar crawl setup process, with the Google Search Console option highlighted, with one view available and one selected.

6. If you have a few options available in your GSC account, you can also use the down arrow to configure the GSC filters. NOTE: It's worth paying particular attention to the date range. The wider the date range, the more data needs to be collected and processed, which will impact crawling time. You may, therefore, want to start with a smaller time period for initial crawls.

Screenshot of the Google Search Console source in Step 2 of the Lumar crawl setup process, showing filter options for country, search type, minimum clicks, date range, include queries, and exclude queries.

7. Once you've selected the view you need, you can save the crawl settings, and GSC data will be connected when the crawl runs. 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

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.