Google Search Console User Management Guide

A property can have both an owner and people who use it. Each job has different rights and skills. You can only give rights to other users if you own the property. In Search Console, go to Users and permissions under (site) Settings to see and change the list of users.

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For each Search Console property, each user is given one of the following rights:

In Search Console, a property owner has complete control over it. Owners can change settings, add and remove users, see all data, and use all tools.
Users won’t be able to access a property until at least one owner is confirmed. There are two types of owners, but both have the same rights. The right of both types of owners is as follows:

• Owners who are verified: Someone who used a token to prove they owned the property. To add or remove a verified owner from the website, you must add or remove a token.
• Authorize or delegated owners: A verified owner can give ownership status to a delegated owner without a verification token. Using the Search Console user administration interface, any owner can easily add or remove a delegated owner.

Full users have access to all information and can do certain things with it.
Restricted users can only look at most of the data.
An associate is a person or account that has permission to do something on your site’s behalf or get access to certain information. Associates can do different jobs, but unlike site owners and users, they can’t directly access or look at your Search Console account or data. Different actions and permissions are available depending on the type of relationship. Learn more about how things are linked.

Adding or removing delegated owners and users

You can add or remove users or people who are assigned to them. Each property can only have up to 100 owners or users. Property owners are the only ones who can add or remove users or owners of parent properties.

The addition of a new user or owner who is no longer in charge

• Use the Search Console to choose a property.
• Click on the icon of settings in the navigation bar and then click on it.
• Choosing Users and Access Levels or permissions.
• Click “Add user.

A. Type in the email address with the new user’s Google Account. Users and owners can’t be added as email groups; each user must have a Google Account.

B. Choose the user’s level of permissions (role).

C. Save your changes immediately.

Deleting a user or delegated owners/authorized owners

• To get rid of a user or delegated owner, you must:
• Use the Search Console to choose a property.
• Click on the setting icon in the navigation bar and then click on it.
• Choosing Users and Access Levels or permissions.
• Select the More settings icon next to the user you want to deactivate. Then, click Remove access.
• The change is saved right away.

If you see the error “This user may only be added as “Owner”,” it means that the user you are trying to add already owns a contained property and has implicit owner rights for this property. This person is the only other owner of this kid’s property. If you added them as full or restricted users, their permissions for this child property would go down. This is not allowed.

Adding or removing verified owners

To become a registered owner follow the following steps:
Putting yourself in a confirmed owner

1. Follow the verification procedure to prove that you own a site.

To make the other person a verified owner, you must add their verification token to the property:

1. Ask the other user to start the verification process so you can get a personal token.
2. Share the user’s token with you or anyone else who can take the next step to confirm that they own the property (for instance, for HTML file verification, have them give you their HTML file and then upload it for them to the website.).

How to get rid of a verified owner? How to remove them?

If all verified owners are removed, all users will lose access to the property after a grace period. The property’s information will still be collected, but no one will be able to see it until someone can prove who owns the property.

1. All the tokens that were used to prove that a certain user owned the asset must be taken away. There are many different ways for a user to check their property.

• Find out what method or methods were used to verify the owner. Make sure you know the exact token value that the person whose account you want to delete has.
• Take away all the verification tokens that the user has for the property. If, for example, an “HTML Tag” is written on the website, you must delete the HTML “meta” tag for that person. If “HTML File” is written, you must delete the HTML verification file for that user from the website. If you don’t delete all of the verification tokens, you can use the ones that are still around to re-verify a user as an owner.

• HTML file upload: Find the user’s HTML file in the root directory of your website. In the file, there will be one line of text that says “google-site-verification” followed by a long alphanumeric name for the file. Take off this tag. Make sure that you only remove the tag for the person you want to untag.

• Tag in HTML: Look for the user’s tag, which looks something like this in the page source of your homepage: meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”…….” />. The tag must be taken out of the page’s source code. Carefully remove only the tags that belong to the users you want to remove.

• Domain registrar: The user’s DNS record needs to be found and deleted.

• Pay attention to Google Analytics: If you want to stop this verification method for this user for good, you must either transfer the Google Analytics account for this site or remove the user’s ability to make changes in the Google Analytics account for this site. Look at the page’s rendered source (right-click in Chrome and choose “Inspect”) and look for “UA-” or “G-” in the page code. These characters should tell you which Google Analytics account is being used for this website.

• An account with Google Tag Manager: To permanently turn off this verification method for this user, you must either switch the Google Tag Manager accounts used on this site or take away the user’s Publish or Admin access in the linked Google Tag Manager account.

• Google Sites/Blogger account: The owner of a Google Site or Blogger website can always access the connected property in Search Console. To completely block access, the owner of the Google Site or Blogger website needs to be changed (because a Google Site or Blogger account must always have one and only one owner).

• Make a Google Domains account: Turn off the user’s administrator role from the connected Google Domains account.

2. After the previous owner’s tokens have been removed from the website, go to the Users and Permissions page.

3. Click Unverify next to the name of the owner you don’t want to verify. For the request to be successful, the owner’s verification token must not be present. Search Console will eventually find the revoked token, and the owner will no longer be able to access the Search Console property (even if you don’t use the Users and permissions tab to verify ownership).

You don’t know who owns it?
If you find an owner you don’t recognize, you may have been hacked. You should either go to the Webmasters Hacked! page and try to protect your website yourself, or get in touch with a website security expert to help you protect your site since a hacker can definitely put their token back after you remove it.

Steps for changing permission level for current users

Requirements:

• To change another user’s rights, you have to be an owner.
• The permissions of any owner who is un-verified can be changed.

To change a user’s level of permissions:

1. Visit the Users and Permissions page for your property.
2. Choose a different permission level and put it next to the person whose settings you want to change.
3. The change is saved right away.

How to determine a user’s permissions level in the google search console?

• Click on the setting icon in the navigation bar and then click on it.
• Find the row that says “Ownership verification” to see what you can do. If you are an owner, you can click on the row to see your verification information.

Determining the permission level someone else has

• To find out how much access someone else has, you have to be an owner. As we’ve already said, you can check your own level of permission.
• To get to the user list page, go to Settings > Users and permissions in your property’s settings.
• Find the user in the user table to see what permissions they have.

Is this person a confirmed or a delegated owner?

In Search Console, both verified and delegated owners are usually just called “Owner.” Most of the time, this is fine, but you may need to know the difference if you want to get rid of a certified owner or check to see if any are left.

1. Webmaster Central was accessed
2. Click on the Search Console property that you want to use.
3. There will be a list of the confirmed owners of the property. The delegated owner is anyone who is listed as the owner of the property but is not here.

How to determine the methods for the owner’s verification in the google search console?

If you are a verified owner, you will find out how you and any other verified owners were checked.

It depends on you:

1. To get to the Ownership page, go to your property settings and click on Settings > Ownership verification.
2. Click the Ownership verification row in the property settings table to learn more about the method(s) that were used. Follow the steps below to use Webmaster Central to find out more about the tokens that were used.

To see the information about your own token or a different user’s:

1. Click Webmaster Central.
2. Click on the Search Console property that you’re interested in. When you click the link next to the user name,
3. you can see what kind of owner it is and how it was verified. Each user uses a different token.

FAQS about google search console

How do you handle roles and permissions?

Roles give community managers a way to organize rights and give them to specific people or user groups. Permissions determine how someone acts in a community. When assigning responsibilities, community administrators take into account what a user has done for a certain community.

How can I control who gets access?

1. Tips for Successful User Access Management

• Use the least privilege principle.
• Super-User access privileges should be limited or taken away.
• Set up your privileges in advance.
• Invest in a password manager.
• Have a look at Privileged User Access.

What purpose does user management serve?

With user management, IT managers can give users what they need and what they do best, while also keeping their digital assets safe. Even though user management tasks are often invisible to end users, the results are not.

What do the users have access to?

Managing the owners, users, and permissions of an image
User permissions are the rights that users have to use certain resources, like files, apps, networks, or devices, as part of the larger process of managing users.

What makes permissions important?

Permissions decide what data users can access and change inside the program. You can keep the right balance of cooperation and control with the help of flexible and adaptable permissions, and you can rest easy knowing that the data in your company is safe and secure.