Google Search Console login: how to sign in and fix access

How to log in to Search Console

Open search.google.com/search-console in your browser.
Choose Start now and sign in with the Google account that has access to your website.
Use the property selector at the top left to choose the website you want to see.

Open Google Search Console

Search Console uses your normal Google account, the same one you use for Gmail or Google Analytics. It has no separate username or password, so a password reset happens in your Google account, not in Search Console.

Signed in, but your website isn’t there

Search Console calls each website a property. If the selector is empty or asks you to add a property, the account you used doesn’t have access to the website yet. Check these in order:

Why a property can be missing
What you see	Likely cause	What to do
No properties, or a prompt to add one	You’re signed in with a different Google account	Use the profile picture at the top right to switch accounts, then check the selector again.
Colleagues can see the site, you can’t	You haven’t been added as a user	Ask an owner to add your Google account in Settings → Users and permissions.
You see www.example.com but not example.com, or the reverse	It’s a URL-prefix property that only covers one version	Add a Domain property to cover every protocol and subdomain.
The website has never been set up	Nobody has added and verified the site	Add a property and verify ownership. Our guide to submitting a website walks through it.

Owner, full user or restricted user

What you can do after logging in depends on your permission level for that property:

Search Console permission levels
Permission	What it allows
Owner	Full control. Owners add and remove users, change settings, see all data and use every tool. Only owners can submit sitemaps in the Sitemaps report.
Full user	Sees all data and can take some actions, such as requesting indexing in URL Inspection.
Restricted user	Sees most data but can’t take actions.

Owners are either verified (they placed a verification token) or delegated (added by a verified owner). A property needs at least one verified owner.

To add someone, an owner opens Settings → Users and permissions → Add user, enters the person’s Google account email and picks a permission. The new user signs in with that Google account and the property appears in their selector.

If access suddenly disappears

If you were a verified owner, your verification token may have been removed, for example a DNS record deleted during a hosting change or an HTML tag dropped in a redesign. Put it back, then verify again.
If you were a delegated owner or user, an owner may have removed you. Ask a current owner to add you again.
If every verified owner loses verification, all remaining users and delegated owners lose access after a grace period. Data keeps being collected, and access returns once someone verifies ownership again.

Read your reports without logging in each time

Once you can see your property, you can also connect it to an AI assistant. HyperGSC connects the Google account you just used, with read-only access, to ChatGPT, Claude, Codex or Cursor. You can then ask for your top pages, falling queries or a URL’s index status in a chat instead of clicking through reports.

Example prompt

Use HyperGSC to list my connected Search Console websites, then show the 10 queries with the most impressions in the last complete 28 days.

Sources and further reading

References checked on Oct 19, 2026.