Managing owners, users, and permissions

You can be an owner or user of a property. Each of these roles has different rights and capabilities. Y'all tin grant permissions to other users only if yous are a property owner.

Meet and manage the user list in (site) Settings Settings > Users and permissions in Search Panel.

MANAGE USERS AND PERMISSIONS

Permissions

Each user for a Search Panel property is assigned one of the post-obit permissions:

  • Owner: Has full control over backdrop in Search Panel. Owners can add and remove other users, configure settings, view all information, and employ all tools. A property must have at least 1 verified possessor, or no users will have access to the property. There are 2 types of owners, both have the same permissions:
    • Verified owner: Someone who verified ownership of the property using a token to prove ownership. To add or remove a verified owner, you must add together or remove a token on the site.
    • Delegated owner: Someone granted buying status past a verified owner using Search Console, without providing a verification token (such as an HTML file or tag). To add together or remove a delegated owner, a verified owner need simply add or remove the possessor by email inside Search Console.
  • Full user: Has view rights to all information and can take some deportment.
  • Restricted user: Has uncomplicated view rights on virtually data.
  • Acquaintance: Associates are people or accounts that tin can have certain actions on behalf of your site, or access certain information. Dissimilar site owners and users, associates can't open or view your Search Console business relationship or information directly but they are authorized to perform other tasks. The actions and permissions vary depending on the type of association (for instance, Chrome Web store).

We lost our but verified site owner!

If the but verified owner of your site leaves your team, or you're not sure who the verified possessor is, you (or someone you know) should verify buying to maintain (or regain) access to the property.

If you are taking over a site from another owner, after you lot verify ownership yous tin unverify previous owners by removing their verification token (for example, removing the HTML tag from the site, for HTML-tag-verified owners). Run across Add together or remove owners for more information.

Add or remove users or delegated owners

A property can have a maximum of 100 users/owners.

You must be a property possessor (or an owner of a parent holding) to add or remove another user.

To add a new user or delegated owner

  1. Cull a property in Search Panel.

  2. Click the Settings icon Settings in the navigation pane.
  3. Click Users & permissions.
  4. Click Add together user
    1. Enter the Google Business relationship name (email) of the new user. ⚠️Users must have a Google Business relationship, and email groups cannot be added equally a user or owner.
    2. Cull the permission level (office) to grant the user.
    3. Save your changes.

To delete a user or delegated owner

  1. Choose a property in Search Panel.
  2. Click the Settings icon Settings in the navigation pane.
  3. Click Users & permissions.
  4. Select the More menu next to the user to delete and click Remove access. The alter should have effect very quickly.

Add or remove verified owners

To add a verified owner

  • To add yourself as a verified owner
    1. Follow the verification menses to evidence buying of a site.
  • To add together another person every bit a verified possessor, yous must add their verification token to the holding:
    1. Enquire the other user to first the verification flow to generate a personal token.
    2. Have that user share their token with your or anyone else who can take the appropriate action to verify them every bit a holding owner (for example, for HTML file verification, have them give y'all their HTML file and then upload it for them to the website.).

To remove a verified owner

If all verified owners are removed, then all remaining users volition lose access to the property later on a grace period. Data for the property volition proceed to exist collected, merely nobody will have access to it until someone verifies ownership of the holding.

  1. Delete all tokens used to verify their ownership of the property. For example, the HTML verification file for HTML file upload, or the Google Analytics tracking code for the Analytics code verification method.
    1. Determine the verification method(south) used for the owner.
    2. Remove all verification tokens for that user for the property. For instance, if "HTML Tag" is listed, you must remove the HTML <meta> tag for that person from the site. If "HTML File" is listed, you must remove the HTML verification file for that person from the site. See details most each verification method here. If yous don't remove all verification tokens for a user, they volition be reverified as an owner on any remaining tokens.
  2. Afterward removing the quondam owner'south tokens from the site, open the Users and permissions page.
  3. Click Unverify adjacent to the possessor's name to unverify the unwanted owner. The owner's verification token must be gone, or else the unverify asking will fail. (Even if you don't unverify buying using the Users and permissions page, Search Console will eventually discover the removed token, and that owner will so lose admission to the Search Panel holding.)

Don't recognize an owner?

If you've constitute an owner that you lot don't recognize, you might have been hacked. A hacker tin probably add their token back after you've removed it, then y'all should either visit the Webmasters Hacked! site and try to secure your website yourself, or else contact a website security professional person to help yous secure your site.

Change permissions for an existing user

Requirements:

  • Y'all must be an owner to exist able to change permissions of another user.
  • You tin change permissions for whatever non-verified owner.

To modify permission level for another user:

  1. Open up the Users and Permissions folio for your property.
  2. Side by side to the user that you desire to modify, select a different permission level.
  3. The change should take effect very quickly.

Make up one's mind a user'south permission level

For yourself:

  • Open up Settings page (click the settings icon Settings in the navigation pane).
  • Find the Ownership verification row to run into your permission. If you are an owner, you lot can click the row to encounter your verification details.

For some other user (you must be an possessor to practice this):

  1. Open the user list folio in your property'south settings (Settings > Users and permissions).
  2. Find the user in the user table to see their permission level.

Delegated or verified owner?

Search Console typically labels both delegated and verified owners as simply "Owner". In most cases this is fine, only in a few cases (when you desire to remove an owner, or decide if whatever verified owners remain) you might need to acquire the divergence. To see the listing of verified owners:

  1. Open up Webmaster Central.
  2. Click the Search Panel property that you lot're interested in.
  3. You will see a listing of verified owners. Whatever other person listed equally an owner in Search Console is a delegated owner.

Determine owner verification methods

If yous are a verified possessor, you can determine the method(south) used to verify yourself or whatsoever other verified owners.

For yourself:

  1. Open up the Ownership page in your belongings settings (Settings > Ownership verification)
  2. Click theBuying verification row in the property settings table to see the method(southward) used. To see the details about the exact tokens used, use Webmaster Central as described below.

For another user, or to see your ain token details:

  1. Open Webmaster Central.
  2. Click the Search Console holding that you're interested in.
  3. ClickVerification details next to the user proper noun to see information about the possessor type and verification details.

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