# Integrate Google Search Console with Databox

Google Search Console is a free service from Google that helps website owners monitor and optimize their site's presence in Google Search results. It provides data on search traffic, indexing status, and technical issues — giving marketers and SEO teams visibility into how Google discovers and ranks their content. Connecting Google Search Console to Databox brings your search performance metrics — clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position — into unified dashboards alongside your other marketing data, enabling you to report on organic search impact and act on it faster.

## Connection

### Before you begin

### Step 1: Add a connection

To connect Google Search Console to your Databox account for the [first time](/add-a-connection):

1. Click **Connect** to open the Google sign-in dialog.
2. Sign in with the Google account that has access to your Search Console site.
3. Review the permissions Databox is requesting and click **Allow**.


If you've already established a connection, you can [reuse](/add-a-data-source) it to add new sites, as long as those sites are accessible with the existing connection's credentials.

google-search-console-connection
### Step 2: Select a site

Select the **site or property** you want to use as the data source.

## Metric Builder

The Google Search Console integration allows you to create custom metrics using the metric builder, ideal for visualizing data not included in the basic metrics offered by the integration.

google-search-console-metric-builder
To create a custom metric, start by selecting a metric from the **Metric** selector. Available metrics include Clicks, Impressions, CTR, Average Position, Number of Queries on Position, and Number of Queries on Position Group. Next, optionally select a **Search Type** to limit data to a specific search surface (such as Web search results, Image search results, or Google News). Optionally, add a **Dimension** to break results down by Country, Device, Page, Query, or Search Appearance. Expand **Advanced options** to add one or more **Filter by** conditions — you can filter by Country, Device, Page, Query, or Search Appearance to narrow the data included in the metric.

**In Google Search Console:** Go to **Performance > Search results** to explore the queries, pages, countries, devices, and search appearance data available for your property. For more detail, refer to the [Search Console Performance report documentation](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553).

## Resources

For comprehensive details on metrics, data availability, templates, specifications, usage guidelines, and other key information, refer to the resources listed below.

The **Search Type** field restricts the data returned to a specific search surface. For example, selecting **Image search results** limits the metric to impressions and clicks that came from Google Images, while **Web search results (All tab)** covers standard web search. If no Search Type is selected, data defaults to web search results.

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