The Chartbeat Google Search Console integration makes it possible to see your search performance data in the Chartbeat app.
After you connect your company’s Google Search Console with your Chartbeat Publishing account, you will be able to see key performance metrics about your articles surfaced in Chartbeat’s Historical Article Detail Page.
- Search Performance Metrics
- How to connect to Google Search Console
- How to manage sites and disconnect integration
- Frequently Asked Questions and Errors
Search Performance Metrics
Chartbeat will pull in the following metrics from Google Search Console:
| Impressions | The number of times any URL from your site appeared in search results viewed by a user |
| Clicks | Count of clicks from a Google search result that landed the user on your property. |
| Average CTR | Click count divided by the impression count. If a row of data has no impressions, the CTR will be shown as a dash (-) because CTR would be division by zero. |
| Average Position (Page Rank) | The position value in the table represents the average position in search results for the URL |
| Keywords (Queries) | The specific search terms or keywords that users enter into the Google and subsequently land on your website |
For additional information on Google Search Console data, see Google Documentation.
How to connect to Google Search Console
Know Before You Install
- Only Chartbeat Admins can set up the Google Search Console integration
- User must have a company Google Search Console login with access to associated sites in order to connect and see relevant data
- Once Google Search Console is connected and sites have been selected, the associated data will be surfaced to all users on the account.
Steps to install
1. Integration / Connect Your Google Search Console
Head over to the Integrations tab in your Settings page.
Select the Connect button under the Google Search Console icon and you will see a consent modal pop up.
Select the Connect button on the consent modal in order to proceed with the authentication process.
You will then be redirected to the Google-hosted consent page and guided through the process. You will be prompted to log into your Google Search Console account and grant access to Chartbeat to access your company's Google Search Console data.
2. Select your sites:
Once you complete the Google-hosted consent flow, you will be redirected back to Chartbeat where you will see a site selector. This selector will match your Google Search Console sites to any existing Chartbeat sites and surface them on the left side of the modal.
[If you are unable to see any sites populate in the selector, see FAQs here.]
When you select all sites for which you would like to see search performance data in Chartbeat, they will move over to the right side of the modal, under Selected sites.
Click the Save button to finalize selections.
Once site selection is complete, you will see the total number of connected sites on the Google Search Console widget.
You will now be able to see associated data on article detail pages in the Historical Dashboard.
Note: You will not see Google Search Console performance data in Chartbeat if you do not select any sites.
Manage sites and disconnect integration
How to add connected sites
- Head over to the Integrations tab in your Settings page.
- Select the Manage button under the Google Search Console icon and you will see a “Manage Google Search Console Sites” modal appear. On the left-hand side of the modal, you will see a list of all sites available for connection via Chartbeat’s integration. Sites with a checkmark are already connected.
- To connect a new site, simply check the box next to the site name.
- Upon connection, the site name will now appear on the right-hand side of the modal, under Selected Sites.
- Click the Save button to finalize updates.
How to remove connected sites
- Head over to the Integrations tab in your Settings page.
- Select the Manage button under the Google Search Console icon and you will see a “Manage Google Search Console Sites” modal appear. On the right-hand side of the modal, you will see a list of selected sites currently surfacing Google Search Console data.
- To remove a connected site, click on the X next to the site name.
- Upon removal, the site name will now appear un-checked on the left-hand side of the modal, under the title All Sites.
- Click the Save button to finalize updates.
How to disconnect your Google Search Console integration
- Head over to the Integrations tab in your Settings page.
- Select the Disconnect button under the Google Search Console icon and you will see a disconnect modal pop up.
- Type “disconnect” in the text field and click on the Disconnect button to complete the disconnection.
Note: This action will only disconnect your Google Search Console integration and remove the data associated with the sites authenticated by you. If other admins on the account have activated their own Google Search Console connections, these will still remain connected at the account level.
Frequently Asked Questions and Errors
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