Search Console in GA4

July 9, 2024

First Published: July 9, 2024
Last Modified: October 27, 2025

Utilising the information from Search Console can be a goldmine.

And if you’re an SEO building an SEO report in GA4, getting that info, in line with other data is brilliant.

You can integrate GA4 with Search Console, to bring in information into the GA4 interface.

This guide will show you how to do that.

How do I access the Search Console in GA4?

There’s a few things that need to be done to get your search console data in GA4.

The process looks like this:

Link your GA4 and Search Console
Find the report within the library collection
Publish it
Customise and amend

Simple right!

Ok, let’s get into more detail.

Linking GA4 and Search Console

In the Admin panel, navigate to Product links and click on Search Console.

Once you have clicked on Search Console Links you should then click link.

You now have the ‘Create a link with Search Console’ interface.

You should then choose your Search Console property, then choose your Web Stream.

Review these (and for god’s sake, don’t add the wrong clients data to the wrong analytics property) and submit.

If you’ve done it right, you should see ‘Link Created’.

And it’s as simple as that to link GA4 to Search Console.

Caveats To create a link, you need the editor role on the GA4 property and a verified owner on the Search Console property.

Where is Search Console in GA4?

Once you’ve linked the data, you might be thinking, great, job done.

Well, the search console collection is unpublished by default.

So you’ll have to go into the collection option under library and publish it from there. This is in the same way that you would create an SEO Report for example

First click on the ‘Library’ option within the report section

Then find your Search Console collection and click on the burger menu in the top right.

Choose the ‘publish’ option.

Your Search console reports will now appear in the report section of GA4.

Search Console reports in GA4

Now that it’s all published and visible, you have access to:

Queries
Impressions
Click Through Rate (CTR)
Clicks
Organic Google Search Average Position
Landing Page Data

This means you have visibility of what searches your site is visible for and how that is appearing.

The Search Console reports

The search console integration in GA4 gives you access to 2 reports:

Queries
Google Organic Search Traffic

The Queries report lets you view the queries your site is visible for with metrics including:

Clicks
Impressions
CTR
Average Position

The search traffic report also has those metrics but comes with additional metrics including:

Engagement Rate
Engaged Sessions
Key Events
Average Engagement Time

This report outlines the landing pages (+query string) that your site is visible for.

Compatability with GA4 Dimensions

You can only combine search console metrics with the following dimensions from GA4:

Landing Page
Device
Country

But I’m sure that’s more than enough to get stuck into!

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Author

Hello, I'm Kyle Rushton McGregor!

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