How to Connect Your Google Account with Rank Math SEO? - Rank Math SEO

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rankmath is the best alternative to connect your website with google services because besides eliminating any need to install additional plugins or code it presents all of their data with useful insights right in your wordpress dashboard hi i'm kate and we're going to learn how to connect google analytics google search console and google adsense to your website the first step is to enable the analytics module and rank maths dashboard you can click on settings in the module which will take you to rank math's general settings in the analytics tab then you need to connect the website to your rankmath.com account rankmath users can create a free account to enjoy this and other benefits click on the card to learn more now we can connect your google account click on connect google services and you will be redirected to a page where you will choose an account to continue after selecting your account you'll have to provide rank math the required permissions so we can display the reports in your wordpress admin panel we do not store any of the data from your google account on our servers everything is processed and stored on your server we take your privacy extremely seriously and ensure it is never misused the three required permissions are to see and download your google analytics data to view and manage search console data of your verified sites and to let rankmath manage the list of sites and domains that you control if you're a rank math pro user rankmath will also ask permissions for creating a new google analytics account with its default property in view editing google analytics management entities and viewing your adsense data on the next page click on allow once again to confirm your choices for permissions now that rank math is connected with your google account you will be redirected back to the rank math analytics settings page google search console will already be set up if you don't have a property for this site in google search console we will create it for you rank math pro users can choose a country to see the statistics for in rank maths analytics google analytics is set up in the next section you can choose your account property and view just as with search console rank math pro users can filter the analytics data for a specific country if your property doesn't appear on the drop down list check if your website uses google analytics for rank math currently does not support ga4 to fix that you can create a universal analytics property start by heading to the admin section of google analytics click on create property and under the advanced options click the toggle to enable create a universal analytics property this creates both a google analytics for and a universal property for the same website just fill out your website's url and click on next now back to rank maps analytics settings if you are not using any other plugins or theme to add the google analytics code to your website enable the install analytics code option if you do have a plugin or theme that has already added this code enabling this option would make us add the same code for the second time so you should consider which plugin you would like to use to add the google analytics tracking code to your website rankmath gives all users the option of excluding logged in users from analytics data pro users also have the options to anonymize ap addresses enable cookie-less tracking and have a self-hosted analytics.js file connecting to the last google service adsense is a rank math pro feature after connecting the services there are three options related to handling the data collected in the analytics database setting defining how long we should keep the data that we download from analytics in your database rank math 3 users have a maximum of 90 days keep in mind that the data is stored twice so differences can be properly calculated the second is delete data which only applies to the data from google we have copied over to your server you can delete the data if you want to start fresh or if you are running out of space and update data manually which downloads the data from google when you click on it if you have chosen to retain 90 days of data in your analytics database we estimate that your data will be imported in 17 minutes if you have more data then it will take more time rank math business users have an extra feature monitor seo performance this is a centralized dashboard in rankmath.com with performance statistics for all of the websites connected to that account it's in the websites tab by default the feature is enabled for business users to monitor the performance for all of their clients but they can choose to enable or disable the performance stats of individual sites pro users can have access to the same statistics in their rankmath.com dashboard but they can only enable or disable the analytics stats for all of the connected websites not individually to do that activate or deactivate the analytics stats option in rankmath.com's websites tab finally you can activate the option email reports to receive statistics straight to your inbox learn all about this feature of rank math with the video that's in the card if this tutorial helped you give it a like if you have any questions click on the link in the description to open a free support ticket you can find more tutorials in our knowledge base at rankmath.com kb