Connect Google Search Console and WordPress for your business
Google Search Console and WordPress each hold numbers the other never sees. askotter reads both and tells you, by text, what they mean together.
What do you get by connecting Google Search Console and WordPress?
askotter reads Google Search Console and WordPress side by side and puts both in one report for the business. The owner sees how activity in one leads to results in the other, gets an alert when a number moves and can ask questions by text.
- From Google Search Console
- Search queries and impressions, Click-through rates by query, Average position by keyword.
- From WordPress
- Page and post performance, Content categories and tags, User engagement metrics.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Google Search Console or WordPress. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why connect Google Search Console and WordPress
Search Console data sits beside GA4 visits, bookings and payments, so each ranking has a dollar figure next to it. It fits into our local SEO services work.
How Google Search Console and WordPress records line up
Google Search Console and WordPress both report by page. URLs are normalised first (protocol, trailing slash and tracking parameters removed) and then joined page by page.
Shared between the two: the page URL.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Google Search Console on its own
Search Console sees the search up to the click and stops there. It cannot say whether that visitor booked, bought or left.
Timing. Search Console numbers usually arrive two to three days behind, reported as daily totals per query and page.
Access. The Search Console API with read access to the property.
WordPress on its own
WordPress knows what is published and when it changed. Without analytics beside it, it has no idea which pages bring in work.
Timing. WordPress stamps the publish and modified date on every post and page, which marks exactly when content changed.
Access. The WordPress REST API with an application password.
Related guides
- You Rank on Page One and Nobody Clicks. Here Is Why.. A page-one ranking that earns no clicks is a more solvable problem than a page-three ranking. It is also more annoying, because it looks like success.
- How Long Does SEO Take? An Honest Timeline for Small Businesses. A realistic month-by-month timeline, without the "results in 30 days" lies.
Services that use these connections
Analyses: Google Search Console + WordPress
Other Google Search Console combinations
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