Google Search Console - How do you manage multiple clients?

[JeffClevelandTN]

Like us, I'm sure many other SEOs and agencies use a Google MCC account to manage their client's Google Ads campaigns, or a GBP Agency Dashboard for managing client's GBPs along with delegating appropriate access to other team members. Both the MCC and the GBP Agency Account have proven to be invaluable for our agency as we've grown and helps so much in delegating access and levels to our team members.

What is everyone else using/doing to access their client's Google Search Console? Besides reporting metrics, the main objective is to have access to functionality of the URL Inspection Tool.

It is just so clunky, inefficient and can be an administrative nightmare, having multiple Google Accounts (for different team members) to be granted access to each client's GSC. In the past we've used a single shared credential Google Account using an email address belonging to our domain, however with the necessity of multi-factor authentication, this has become a challenge and also a potential security risk if an employee leaves and the password isn't changed to the shared account.

I'm hoping that there is something obvious we are missing to make our life easier, but wouldn't be surprised at all if this is just a non-issue on Google's part.

Thanks!

 

[keyserholiday]

Do not use a shared account. That violates Google’s TOS and can lead the to account being blacklisted and suspended.

What I do is have all domains get added to the main account and then each user who needs access is added.

 

[JeffClevelandTN]

@keyserholiday Thanks Jason, good insight about the TOS violation. We've went away from the shared accounts as it was just too hard for multiple people to access the client's GBP with 2FA issues.

Again, I was hoping for a more elegant way for user delegation rather than having to add each individual user. Our primary concern is when a person is no longer working for us, that it is one more administrative thing to have to keep track of during the separation process. With the GBP agency dashboard, as you know, it is super simple to take care of removing a user in a single place.