Importing Keywords from Search Console
Connect Google Search Console to discover and import the queries already driving impressions and clicks to your site.
Connecting Google Search Console (GSC) to RankTurn lets you work from real search data instead of guesses. Once connected, RankTurn can surface the queries your site already appears for and turn them into tracked keywords with one click — a fast way to find topics you're ranking for but never targeted on purpose.
Connecting Google Search Console
You can connect GSC during onboarding, or any time afterward from settings:
- Go to Settings > Integrations.
- Find the Google Search Console section and click Connect.
- Sign in with your Google account and authorize RankTurn.
- Select the property (website) you want to track.
You need to be a verified owner or user of the GSC property to connect it. For the full connection walkthrough and what permissions are requested, see Google Search Console.
Discovering Keywords
Once GSC is connected, a More actions (…) menu appears next to the keyword actions on the Keywords page. The menu shows up only when a GSC property is connected and you have permission to add keywords (owner, admin, and editor roles). Viewers don't see it and can't import. For more on roles, see Team Roles & Members.
- Open the Keywords page.
- Click the
…overflow menu. - Choose Discover Keywords.
The discovery dialog uses the search data RankTurn keeps up to date for your selected property over the last 28 days. It combines the numbers for each query, leaves out any query you're already tracking as a keyword, sorts the rest by impressions, and shows the top 100 queries.
If every recent query is already tracked, the dialog tells you there are no new queries to import.
What the Dialog Shows
Each row in the dialog is one search query, with its 28-day performance:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Query | The search term users typed to reach your site. |
| Impressions | How many times your site appeared in results for this query (used for the default sort). |
| Clicks | How many times users clicked through to your site. |
| CTR | Click-through rate — clicks ÷ impressions, shown as a percentage. |
| Position | Your average ranking position for the query. |
Use the checkboxes to pick individual queries, or Select all to select everything shown. On narrow screens the table is replaced by selectable cards with the same metrics.
Importing Keywords
- Select the queries you want to track.
- Click Import (the button shows the number of selected queries).
Imported queries are added to your keyword list and labelled as coming from Search Console, so you can tell at a glance which keywords came from real search data. As they're imported, RankTurn fills in the same metrics it adds to keywords you enter by hand — search volume, CPC (the average cost per click), difficulty, intent, and the monthly search trend.
A few things to know:
- Importing requires an active (paid or trial) subscription and permission to add keywords, so free accounts and viewer-role members can't import. Importing does not use up your monthly keyword-generation allowance, and there's no limit on how many queries you can import.
- Duplicates are skipped automatically: any query that already exists as a keyword (regardless of capitalization) isn't added again.
- Metrics are pulled for the market that matches your business profile language.
Search Performance Columns on the Keywords Table
With GSC connected, RankTurn keeps your tracked keywords updated with up-to-date search data — not just the ones you imported from Search Console, but any keyword that matches a query your site appears for. These columns appear directly in the keywords table:
- Position — your average ranking position for the keyword.
- Change — position movement over the past 7 days.
- Clicks — clicks from search results.
- Impressions — how many times your site appeared in results.
You can sort the table by Position, Clicks, or Impressions to quickly find, for example, high-impression keywords sitting at a low position. (Change isn't sortable.) For more on the keywords table, see Searching, Filtering, Editing & Bulk Actions.
Where to Go Next
GSC data is most useful when it points you toward action. The Insights section turns this same search data into recommendations — surfacing CTR improvement opportunities and content gaps automatically, so you know which keywords deserve a new article and which existing pages need a better title or description.