Google Search Console in WordPress: searches per post

Plan

Free

Connection

A Google service account with read-only access

Sync

Daily, re-reading the last seven days

Where

Search & AI tab, and each post's stats

What you see

• "Searches that found you": clicks from search, times you appeared, click-through rate and average position for the range.
• Each search with its clicks, impressions and position, and the page Google most often showed for it.
• The searches behind a single post, on that post's stats.

Set it up

1. In Google Cloud Console, enable the Google Search Console API and create a service account. Download its JSON key.
2. In Search Console, open Settings, Users and permissions, and add the service account's address with Restricted access.
3. In WordPress, go to Vireo Analytics, Settings, Search Console & API. Paste the whole key file into "Service account key (JSON)" and the property exactly as Search Console lists it into "Property".
4. Click "Save Search Console settings". To fill in older data, click "Fetch the last 90 days".

A service account means there's no Google sign-in to renew later. The same steps are in the plugin under "How to get the key file".

Free or Pro

Free. Part of the free plugin.

Worth knowing

• Google's numbers aren't final for about three days, so the newest data ends three days before today.
• Search Console leaves out rare searches, so the per-search rows don't add up to the total clicks.
• A domain property (sc-domain:example.com) and a URL-prefix property are different properties. The wrong one returns nothing.

Docs

• Search Console set-up
• Search Console searches per post