How to Share Google Search Console Data Without Handing Over Your Account

By Angel Guzman · Founder, SearchProof · June 2026

“Can you share your Search Console?” sounds like one request, but it's really two. Sometimes you want a collaborator — a developer, an agency, an analyst — to actually work inside the property. Other times you just want to show someone your numbers: a client, your audience, an investor, a hiring manager.

Those two goals call for different methods. Grant the wrong level of access and you've handed a stranger the keys to your site; share a screenshot and you've given them something they can't trust. Here's how to do each one properly.

How to Grant Access the Official Way

If someone genuinely needs to work in your Search Console, add them as a user. Only a verified owner can do this, and it takes about a minute:

• Open your property in Google Search Console.
• Go to Settings → Users and permissions.
• Click Add user, enter their Google account email, and choose a permission level.

Full vs. Restricted permission: a Full user can do almost everything an owner can short of managing other users — including actions that affect how Google treats your site. A Restricted user can view most reports but can't take consequential actions. For the common case — letting someone read your performance data — Restricted is the right choice. Don't grant Full access just to let someone look at a chart.

When the work is done, go back to the same screen and remove the user. Access you grant is access you have to remember to revoke.

The Limits of Granting Access

Adding a user is the right tool when someone needs to operate in the console. It's the wrong tool when you only want to display results, for a few reasons:

• The other person needs their own Google account and has to log into Search Console — friction for a client who just wants to see a number.
• They see the raw console, not a clean view of the metrics you wanted to share.
• You've created standing access you must track and remember to remove later.

And if your instinct instead is to skip access entirely and just send a screenshot — that solves the friction but creates a different problem. A screenshot is editable, so it proves nothing. That's precisely why clients stop trusting SEO reports stitched together from exports the sender controls.

Share Verified Metrics Without Granting Access

There's a third option that fits the “just show them my numbers” case better than either user access or screenshots: publish a verified public page.

That's what SearchProof does. You connect your own Search Console property once via OAuth, and SearchProof generates a public Site Page — a live URL showing your verified metrics pulled directly from Google Search Console. Anyone with the link can view it. No Google account, no console login, nothing for you to revoke later. And because the data is served from Google, it carries verification a screenshot never can — the same reason GSC data is the credible source in the first place.

So which should you use?

• Grant Search Console access when someone needs to manage or actively analyze the property — use Restricted permission and remove it when finished.
• Share a public Site Page when you only need to display verified results to a client, an audience, or an investor. See the model on the SearchProof Leaderboard.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Bottom Line

Match the method to the goal. If someone needs to work in your Search Console, add them as a Restricted user and revoke it later. If you just need to show that your numbers are real, a verified public page beats both an access grant and a screenshot — it's viewable by anyone, requires no login, and can't be faked.

Publish your verified metrics page at search-proof.com — free, takes under two minutes.