Solving Google Search Console

Limitations With API - Jain Technosoft

Google Search Console has proven to be a valuable tool for getting
information about your website and its performance in organic
search, but with certain limitations. Let us learn in this blog how
we can better learn about the performance of our website
through this amazing tool.

Limitations while accessing a website’s performance

through Google Search Console

Before we learn how to access the performance of a website

better, we first need to understand the limitations that stand in
front of us. the limitation that Google Search Console brings is that
when you get into the “Performance” report, the query and page
data are separated. This means that if you want to see the queries
a specific page is ranking for, you will first need to click on
“Pages”, and then select the page, and then click back to “Queries”;
making it a very cumbersome experience. Moreover, the
performance data for both Queries and Pages need to be exported
separately, with exports being limited to only 1000 rows.
How to resolve the limitation issue?

The above limitation issue can be resolved with the help of Google
Search Console API, which gives more control, and opens up more
possibilities. This tool can help connect to the data within your
account, make more customized requests, and get more
customized output. With the help of API, you can connect query
data with the page that the query ranks for, which means no more
clicking back and forth, and waiting for things to load. In addition,
API can help request up to 5000 rows, making it an increase of
400%!

How to use API?

• First, you need to log in to the appropriate Google Search

Console account on the page, after which you will need to set
up your request by filling in the start date, end date, query,
page, device, country, and other dimensions. You may also add
filters of dimensions, operators, and expressions. Lastly, you
will have to set the row limit.
• Next, you need to execute the request. For this, you will need
to click into the “Request Body”, select all, and paste in your
custom JSON. Here, you can also manually set up your request
keys and values. Then, you need to scroll down and click
“Execute”. You will be asked to sign in, and then, your API will
return your data. In case of an error, you will need to audit
your inputs and request, and execute again.
• Now, you’ll need to use a convertor to convert your JSON
output to CSV, as Excel or Sheets will be a much better way to
work with the data. You can now export a CSV, where you can
update your column headers as you require.

** We’ll say that you can query your own data, your request
output in any way you like. Look for data associated with a
specific set of pages by adding a sheet with your page set, and
using VLOOKUP to indicate a match. With the API output being a
spreadsheet, you can carry out the most common actions like
sorting, filtering, and chart creation in Excel.
With the above, we have overcome two obstacles that we face in
the standards Google Search Console user interface – the query-
page connection, and the limited number of exports allowed –
with an amazing solution of Google Search Console API that can
take your analyses and insights to the next level!
For other ways of using Google Search Console API beneficially,
you can always hire professional SEO services in India to
help.

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