how to add new owner to google search console

In this post, we will see, How to add new owner to google search console

It is pretty much easy to add a new owner to google search console and hardly takes 5 minutes before we see how to add new owner, we first need to know why and when should you, add an owner to google search console.

Let’s see why & when to add an owner to google search console

I believe you can add an owner to google search console in one of the following situations

• You or Your company is moving away from one email address to another email address
• You are a marketing agency and managing a client’s search console, to Manage client’s account

The advantage of having multiple owners in Google search console is that even if one owner loses their access to the account, the other owner can add them back without wasting time.

Types of owners in Google search console

In Google search console, There are two types of Owners, Verified Owner and Delegated Owner, Although both are reported as simply “Owner” in the Settings page. A Property must have at least one Verified Owner, or No Users will have access to the Property.

Verified owner: Performed some action to verify ownership of the property (for example, posting a special verification file on the website), or Google could deduce ownership (for example, the Blogger account and Search Console account are the same Google account).

Delegated owner: Was granted ownership rights by a verified owner, but has never verified ownership.

See Google search console community

The process

Watch the video guide on how to add owner to google search console

Step 0: Open Google search console, You are redirected to Overview screen

Step 1: Go to settings in the sidebar. And a screen with property settings opens up. 

Step 2: Click on the user and permissions tab.

Step 3: Click on the 3 dots as shown in the image below

Step 4:  Once you click on the dot dots, click on Manage property owners in the small popup

Step 5: In webmaster Central page, Under verified owners, Click on Add an owner

Step 6: Then Enter the email address that you want to be an owner & then click on Continue

That’s it, Once the invited person accepts your invite, he/she can access the property as delegated owner.

You’ve learn’t how to add owner to google search console, it is only best to know how to remove an owner from google search console

How to remove an owner in google search console

Follow the same process until step 4, Once you are on the webmaster central. you can see the existing owners under verified owners find the email address and under actions against the email address that you want yo remove, you can find the unverify (as shown in the image below) and the owner associated with the email address can no longer access the property.

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