{"id":25314,"date":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/improving-search-console-ownership-token-management\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"improving-search-console-ownership-token-management","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/improving-search-console-ownership-token-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Search Console ownership token management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Tuesday, April 16, 2024<\/p>\n<p>\nWe&#8217;re rolling out further improvements to <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/users\" class=\"external-link\">Search Console&#8217;s user and permission management<\/a>,<br \/>\nincorporating capabilities related to unused ownership tokens management. Tokens are the codes used for website ownership verification<br \/>\nin Search Console, Merchant Center, and other Google products. We have seen cases where these were accidentally left behind after<br \/>\nowners have moved on. In February 2023, we rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/updating-search-console-users-and-permissions-management\/\">improvements<br \/>\nto the user and permissions management report<\/a>. The latest changes will improve the accuracy and reflect the actual state of<br \/>\nunused ownership tokens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYou will now be able to verify whether an unused ownership token has been removed from the site by following this flow:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/users\" class=\"external-link\">Users and permissions interface<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Unused ownership tokens&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Choose the tokens you&#8217;d like to remove and click &#8220;Remove&#8221; (see screenshot below)<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Verify removal&#8221; to get update for the unused ownership token<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-745adad1504e.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width alt=\"Search Console screenshot showing ownership token management management\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a reminder, a best practice for managing user permissions in Search Console: When removing a previous verified owner, be sure to<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7687615#manage-users\" class=\"external-link\">remove all verification tokens<br \/>\n    for that user<\/a>. The update rolled out today lets you verify the removal of the unused verification token so that removed owners<br \/>\n    cannot regain access to the property.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs always, we love to hear feedback from you. You can use the feedback form within Search Console or the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/go\/community\" class=\"external-link\">help forums<\/a> to ask questions or submit feedback.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">\n  Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/blog\/authors\/nir-kalush\">Nir Kalush<\/a>, Product Manager and Mohamad Sarsour, software engineer on the Search Console team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post discusses an update to Search Console&#8217;s user and permissions to improve the accuracy and reflect the actual state of unused ownership tokens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":80171,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-25314","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=25314"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=25314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}