Search Console Linking

[ReunionMarketing]

Hey everyone!

Quick question; there have been problems in the past with some of our accounts' Search Console integration becoming unlinked from Google Analytics without us knowing about it. I did some digging into Google Analytics to see if there was a way to create an alert for search queries dropping off, but there doesn't seem to be any options for Search Console alerts like there are for other integrations like Google Ads.

Has anyone discovered a way to have an alert or some type of notification set up for when a Search Console integration is unlinked in Google Analytics or if search queries drop off significantly? I'd appreciate the help!

[effectdigital]

I did some quick research and it seems as though many users are having the same issue and are frustrated by it!

In my experience the two main candidates for becoming unverified are, clients not recognising your email in the user management menu and deleting you - or a redesign of some kind.

For some reason (which baffles me) the three least reliable verification methods are the ones chosen the most:

1. Verify via Google Analytics (if anything goes wrong there, it actually just creates a new link in the chain to go wrong)

2. User manager added verification (until the client deletes you)

3. Meta tag verification (annnnnd as soon as it's not integrated via an SVN, or there's a redesign - it fails!)

Just use the file upload method. As long as that file exists at the 'root' of the client's site's FTP, you will continue to have access to manage everything you need to. Even if the site is redesigned, the file isn't embedded in any templates (which are being worked on) so developer oversight (in terms of migrating features) is less of a problem

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

P.S: if you really really MUST have an alert method, it wouldn't be too hard to build a script that leverages a headless browser (Windmill / Selenium) in Python. You could use XPath and Regex together to make it navigate to the relevant page and fire off notifications (maybe via email) for any entries which were verified last time, but no longer are. Would need decent loops and error handling