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Connecting Google Search Console to your Electbase site

Connect your Google account and Electbase adds your campaign site as a property in your Google Search Console, so you can see what your site is being found for. On a yourname.electbase.com address, ownership verification is already covered. On your own custom domain, you verify ownership yourself in Search Console. Electbase sets the property up and reads nothing back. Available on Grassroots and above.

By Electbase Support · · 4 min read

What this does, and what it leaves to you

Search Console is Google's free tool for seeing how a site performs in Google search: the queries it appears for, which pages are indexed, and what is broken. Setting it up by hand means adding a property and proving you own the site. This connection does the adding for you, in your own Google account.

Three things it does not do, so you know what's still yours:

  • It does not submit your sitemap. Electbase publishes sitemap.xml at your site's root on every publish, but telling Search Console about it is still the one-minute manual step in Getting your site found on Google (and Bing): open Sitemaps in Search Console and submit sitemap.xml.
  • It does not read your search data. Nothing about your queries, clicks or rankings ever flows back to Electbase. You look at it in Search Console.
  • It does not verify a custom domain for you. See below.

Connecting it in Electbase

Publish your site first; the connection needs a live address to add.

  1. From your dashboard, open Connections in the top navigation and find the Google Search Console card. Click Connect Google Search Console.
  2. Google asks you to sign in and to let Electbase manage Search Console data for your sites. That is the only permission requested. Approve it.
  3. Back on the card, the chip reads Connected. Open Search Console in the same Google account and your site is in the property list.

The card itself does not show the setup detail, so Search Console is the place to look.

Ownership verification

If your site is at yourname.electbase.com: nothing to do. Electbase owns the electbase.com domain property in Google, and a subdomain under it inherits that verification. Your property shows as verified.

If your site is on your own domain: Electbase can add the property but cannot complete verification for it, because the permission this connection asks for does not cover Google's site-verification step. Open the property in Search Console, go to Settings → Ownership verification, and pick a method Google offers. Verification is per address, so if you connect a custom domain later, add and verify it in Search Console as its own property; see Your campaign's domain and email, explained.

Disconnecting

Disconnect Google Search Console destroys our stored sign-in. The property stays in your Search Console; it is your resource, and nothing about it changes.

All of Electbase's Google connections on your account (Sheets, Calendar, Search Console) ride a single Google authorization. Disconnecting Search Console revokes that authorization at Google only if no other Google connection on this campaign still uses it. If one does, the card says so and the authorization stays, and you can remove it yourself at myaccount.google.com/permissions when you are done with all of them.

Has this been tested against the real Search Console?

Yes, and it found a real bug the first time. On 2026-09-20 the first live connect failed: Google had created the property, but Electbase refused its own result because the verification step was answered with a permission error we had misread as a bad sign-in. The fix (treat that answer as "cannot self-verify" and finish the setup) was deployed the same day and the connect was repeated successfully: property listed, owner-verified, credential stored.

Two paths remain unexercised: a campaign on its own custom domain, which genuinely has to verify by hand as described above, and disconnecting then confirming the revocation at Google.

Quick checklist

  1. Publish your site.
  2. On your Connections page, click Connect Google Search Console and approve the one permission Google asks for.
  3. Open Search Console in the same Google account and find your site in the property list. On a custom domain, complete ownership verification there.
  4. Submit sitemap.xml under Sitemaps.
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