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Connect Google Search Console: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads

Google Search Console is Google's free tool that shows which searches your site appears for in Google and which pages get clicks. FoxPlug reads it only when you press Check for what's new. What you give it: OAuth (Connect with Google); the long-lived grant is kept as the connection key and traded for a short-lived access token on each read.

Where to find it: In FoxPlug open Settings, then Publishing & integrations, and press How to connect next to Google Search Console. Faster: press / in Settings and type Google Search Console. Open it in FoxPlug

Steps

1. Press Connect with Google.
2. Choose the Google account that owns your site in Search Console.
3. Press Allow on the Google page. It asks only to view Search Console data.
4. Back in FoxPlug, pick your site from the list (a project whose address matches a Search Console site is matched automatically).
5. Press Read my searches.
6. Press the connect button in FoxPlug. FoxPlug checks the key or sign-in straight away and tells you in plain words if it was refused.

Good to know

• What to give: OAuth (Connect with Google); the long-lived grant is kept as the connection key and traded for a short-lived access token on each read. Give it read-only access.
• What FoxPlug looks at: the sites your Google account can see; searches (queries) in the recent window; searches in the 28 days before that; pages in the recent window; pages in the 28 days before that.
• Everything FoxPlug reads from Google Search Console, and what it never reads, is on its integration page.
• You can disconnect any time from the same place, and the stored key is deleted.

What it does not do

• your Google password (you sign in on Google's own page).
• anything beyond viewing Search Console data (the one data permission asked for is read-only; nothing is changed in Google).
• your Gmail, Drive or other Google data (only Search Console, plus the account email, are in the permission request).

Related

• The Your connections card: what each state means
• The Check for what's new button
• Connect Plausible: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads
• Connect Lemon Squeezy: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads

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