Hello,
I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with the connection between Rank Math and Google Search Console. To troubleshoot this problem, you can follow these steps:
- Go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Analytics.
- Click on the Test Connections option at the top right of the Analytics settings to validate the connection with your Google account.
- If you see a red signal indicating a glitch in the connection, you can try to reconnect with your Google account by clicking on the Reconnect button.
If the issue persists even after reconnecting your Google account, or if you see the red signal again after validating the connection, please share the error log with us by opening a support ticket here.
Thank you for reaching out, and we appreciate your cooperation in resolving this matter.
Sources:
Resolving Rank Math Analytics Related Issues » Rank Math
Analyzing Your Site’s SEO with Rank Math’s SEO Analysis Tool
How to Fix ‘Blocked by robots.txt’ Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
How to Fix Problems While Connecting Account Using Rank Math » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
Please follow these steps:
1) Remove Rank Math’s access from Google Please remove RankMath’s app from your Google apps permissions: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
2) Re-connect to regenerate the auth token from Google
After that, reconnect the Google account again to regenerate the auth token from Google, by going to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Analytics and configure the Search Console and Analytics settings again:
3) Grant all necessary permissions
Kindly check all necessary checkboxes to allow Rank Math to access some of the Google Services. Please check my screenshot below for reference:
4) Follow the instructions to sign in with your Google account and allow Rank Math to access your data. https://rankmath.com/kb/connect-your-google-account/
You can also refer to this guide for more details: https://rankmath.com/kb/analytics-issues/#expired-google-oauth-token
We hope this resolves the issue for you. Looking forward to helping you.
Hi Jaideep,
thanks for the reply! I tried to do the procedure you described (I gave rank math access to google search console but not to google analytics because in Italy we can’t use it) but unfortunately the problem didn’t solve. The strange thing is that until some time ago it was working with the same permissions I provided now but now nn no more. Can you help me?
Hello,
Please verify using the URL prefix and ensure that you have verified the correct version of your website on the Google Search Console (HTTP or HTTPS, www or non-www).
You can follow our guide here to create the URL Prefix property:
https://rankmath.com/kb/google-site-verification/#num-1-1-open-google-search-console
The URL-prefix property also helps keep your sitemap in sync with Google Search Console as we submit it automatically for you. In addition, the domain property won’t work correctly on some sections of the Analytics module such as the IndexStatus.
Let us know how this goes.
Hi Reinelle,
thanks for the response. Having already done the property verification on google search console, I would not know how to check. Unfortunately, I don’t remember if I used domain verification or url verification.
Hello,
You can check the type of property you used in your Google Search Console. Please refer to these screenshots for your reference:
In your Rank Math analytics GSC settings, it must not contain an “sc-domain:” like for example:
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hi Jeremy,
I confirm that in the “analytics” section of rank math the “sc-domain:” you mentioned appears. I should have verified the property via “domain property” and not url prefix. To your knowledge is it possible to redo the procedure so that the url is chosen as the verification mode?
Hello,
You can reconnect the Google account again by following the guide we shared earlier, keeping in mind this time to verify using the URL prefix and also verify the correct version of your website.
Let us know how it goes.
Thank you.
So do I first have to create another version of my site on Google search console, verifying it by url prefix? Should I delete the previously verified property (the domain one) or can I leave it active?
Hello,
You can follow our guide here to create the URL Prefix property:
https://rankmath.com/kb/google-site-verification/#num-1-1-open-google-search-console
Do not need to delete the domain property, you can just reconnect your site to Google services from Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Analytics, and select the URL prefix property.
If the two properties being on your Search Console will cause you confusion you can go ahead and delete the domain property.
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hi Ike,
I added the new property but google did an automatic verification of it (I couldn’t do it through the html tag). Rank math however still didn’t work so I looked up the html tag in google search console settings, even though it was already verified, and pasted the code into the appropriate section of the rank math plugin. Now it seems to be working, I hope I didn’t mess up any settings by doing this procedure!
I saw that rank math has already sent the sitemap to google related to the new property. Doesn’t doing so create “duplicate” indexed pages? Keeping in mind that those from the previous property had already been indexed? I don’t want to receive penalties from google.
Thanks again for the help.
Hello,
Please note that Google only shows you duplicate content errors when you have the same content but different URLs. Submitting the sitemap multiple times doesn’t cause duplicate issues.
However, if you see a duplicate sitemap on your Google Search Console, you can safely remove one and it will not cause any issue.
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
