Google Search Console

    The Google Search Console data source allows you to connect your Google Search Console account to Slingshot.

    With the help of structured and insightful dashboards, you can see how your SEO techniques perform and get a better overview on the areas of your site that need to be improved.

    Connecting to Google Search Console

    1. Select Google Search Console that is under Marketing, Sales and CRMs section in the data source list.

      Google Search Console in the list of data sources

    2. In case there are multiple accounts listed, choose the one that stores the data you want to access. You can also add a new Google Search Console account if the one that you need is not in the list of accounts. In case you don’t have a Google Search Console account, you can head here for more information about how you can create one.

    3. If you haven’t signed in yet, you will be prompt to enter your credentials.

    4. Before adding the account to your data sources, you can choose to edit the name, give a description or edit the details.

      Google Search Console add account dialog

    5. Choose the sites you want to use for your dashboard and then click/tap on Select Data.

      Google Search Console account with its list of sites

    6. Once you have saved the changes, you will see the file in your Data Sources list.

    Working in the Visualization Editor

    When you use Google Search Console as a data source, you will see that the fields in the Visualization Editor appear differently.

    Instead of Fields heading on the left, you’ll see two sections in their own query field.

    Visualization Editor showing a Google Search Console data cube

    1. Dimensions: They are the attributes of your data.

    2. Measures (depicted by123 icon): They consist of numeric data. For example, you can see the number of Clicks by Country Name.

    Date Range Data Filter

    This filter can’t be removed but you can change the default date range. The date filter is set to Last 30 days by default.

    If you want to change it, you can click on the arrow in the upper right corner (see the screenshot below) and pick a date range from the drop-down menu or create a custom one when you click on the first option.

    Date range dialog for Google Search Console in the data panel

    Settings

    Depending on the chart type, you can make different changes in the settings. In this case we used the Column chart type where you can adjust the following through the settings menu:

    Google Search Console Visualization Editor Settings

    When you are ready with the visualization editor, you can save the dashboard in My Analytics ⇒ My Dashboards, in a specific workspace or a project.

    Google Search Console dashboard in My Analytics section

    If you want to find more information about the data sources, you can head here.