Google Search Console

Google Search Console (GSC) is how Rankturn sees how your site actually performs in Google. Once connected, Rankturn pulls in your real search data — average ranking position, clicks, impressions and click-through rate — and ties it back to your tracked keywords and published articles. This turns Rankturn from a content generator into a closed loop: write, publish, then watch real performance flow back in.

Unlike the publishing connectors (WordPress, Webflow, and the others), Search Console is read-only — Rankturn never writes anything to it. It only reads your search analytics.

Connecting

Connecting uses Google's secure sign-in, so you just sign in with Google instead of copying any keys.

1. In Rankturn, go to Settings → Integrations.
2. Find the Google Search Console card and click Connect with Google Search Console.
3. You'll be redirected to Google. Sign in with the Google account that owns (or has access to) your Search Console property, and approve the read-only access Rankturn requests.
4. Back in Rankturn, the Select Site Property dialog opens and loads the list of sites your Google account can see in Search Console.
5. Pick the property that matches your website. The property whose URL matches your site is tagged with a Recommended badge to make it easy to find. Domain properties are shown without the sc-domain: prefix.
6. Click Select & Start Sync. Rankturn saves your choice and immediately runs a first sync so you don't have to wait until the next day for data.

Once connected, the card shows a Connected badge along with the Google account email you authorized and the time it was last updated.

No sites found? If that message appears in the property list, the Google account you signed in with has no verified properties in Search Console. Add and verify your site in Google Search Console first, then reconnect.

Reconnecting

Google access tokens expire over time. If yours does, the card shows a Reconnect Required badge and a warning. Click Reconnect to sign in with Google again and resume syncing. While in this state, the Sync Now and Change Property buttons are disabled until you reconnect.

What Gets Synced

Each sync reads two kinds of data from Search Console and matches them against your Rankturn content:

From there, Rankturn does the matching for you:

• Keywords → rankings. Your tracked keywords are matched to the search terms by text (ignoring upper- and lower-case), so a keyword you track lines up with the search term it ranks for. The matched ranking — position, clicks and impressions — is stored per day.
• Articles → pages. Published articles are matched to ranking page addresses. Rankturn tries the exact web address first (the address the article was published to), then a looser match on the page name — so even if your published address isn't recorded exactly, the article usually still finds its page.
• Page titles. For pages it hasn't seen before, Rankturn reads the page's title (up to 50 new pages per sync) so ranking pages are labeled with something readable.

Rankturn never invents data here — every number comes straight from your Search Console property.

Multi-Property Support

Your Google account may have access to many Search Console properties (different sites, www vs non-www, URL-prefix vs domain properties). Rankturn lets you choose, but syncs one property per Rankturn site — the one you selected.

• The connection itself can see every property your Google login has access to (that's the full list you choose from in the wizard).
• Only the selected property is synced and matched to your keywords and articles.
• To switch which property is tracked, open the card and click Change Property. This reopens the selection dialog and lets you pick a different site, then runs a fresh sync for it.

If you manage multiple websites in Rankturn, each is its own site (team account) with its own Search Console connection and its own selected property.

Daily Sync (Timing & Latency)

After the initial sync at connection time, Rankturn keeps your data fresh automatically.

• Automatic daily sync. Rankturn automatically refreshes every connected property once a day (around 2:00 AM UTC).
• Date window. Each sync pulls the last 28 days of data.
• Google's reporting delay. Search Console data is not real-time — Google publishes it with a delay of roughly 2–3 days. To avoid pulling incomplete days, Rankturn's window ends 2 days before today. This is normal and expected; it means the very latest day or two won't appear yet.
• Manual sync. You don't have to wait for the nightly refresh. Click Sync Now on the card to refresh immediately. To stay within Google's limits, manual syncs are capped at 5 every 5 minutes per site.

If a sync fails because your Google authorization expired, the card flips to Reconnect Required rather than silently failing — reconnect and the daily refresh resumes on its own.

What It Powers

Connecting Search Console lights up real-data features across Rankturn:

• Keyword ranking columns. In Keywords, your tracked keywords gain live position, clicks and impressions columns drawn from GSC, plus a 7-day position change indicator so you can see what's moving. You can also sort the keyword list by these GSC metrics.
• Keyword discovery from your own searches. The keywords screen can surface the actual search queries your site already ranks for (with their impressions, clicks, CTR and position) so you can add high-potential terms you aren't tracking yet. See Importing Keywords from Search Console.
• Article GSC metrics card. Open a published article and its detail page shows a Search Console card with the page's average position (and its change), clicks, impressions, CTR, and a link to the live URL — so you can judge each article on its real performance. See Article Metadata, SEO Score & Sidebar.
• Insights & competitor analysis. Your GSC performance data feeds Insights & Competitor Analysis and the AI-driven AI Insights (CTR & Content Gaps), which use clicks, impressions, CTR and position to spot underperforming pages and content gaps.

The more of your content is published and matched to ranking pages, the richer all of the above becomes — so it's worth connecting Search Console early.