---
title: Google Search Console and Bing
description: Connect the search engines to Anole and see clicks, impressions, positions and queries next to your site audit.
id: search-console-bing
date: 2026-11-06
section: Integrations
order: 50
---
The audit shows what's on your pages; search data shows how many people actually reach them, from which queries, and where they land. Anole pulls it from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools and shows it alongside everything else, on every plan, including Free.

Access is read-only. One connection covers all your sites in Anole.

## Where to find it

Open a site in Anole, click **Edit** and scroll to **Google Search Console and Bing**.

## Google

Click **Connect Google Search Console**. You sign in to Google and allow read access to Search Console data. Anole then matches a property to your domain on its own: a domain property first, then the `https://` address, the `www` one, and `http://` last.

If nothing matches, you get a list and pick the property yourself. If the list is empty, the site hasn't been added to Search Console on that Google account.

Along the way Google may warn you that the app hasn't been verified. Google shows that for apps it hasn't reviewed yet. Anole asks only for read access to Search Console data.

## Bing

Bing has no sign-in flow, just an API key. Create one in Bing Webmaster Tools: the **Settings** icon top right, then **API Access** and **API Key**. Paste the key into Anole and click **Save and check**.

No site in Bing yet? Don't set it up from scratch. Bing Webmaster Tools can import your sites from Google Search Console in a few clicks.

## When the data shows up

The first numbers usually arrive within an hour. Anole starts with the last 30 days from Google, then fills in older history a month at a time, up to 16 months back. Until that's done, the connection says it's still loading history.

Bing works a little differently. It reports queries and pages in weekly batches, so those numbers move once a week. It doesn't report countries or devices either, so those tabs show Google data only.

## The report

Click **Open the search report**. Pick the source (Google, Bing or both), the period, and a comparison with the previous period or the same period a year earlier. Below the charts are the **Queries**, **Pages**, **Countries** and **Devices** tabs, and every table downloads as CSV.

Clicks also show up in the site's URL list and on the dashboard. The most useful bit is probably the hint in the progress section: it points to pages that get search traffic but don't have a Markdown version yet. Those are a good place to start.

## Disconnecting

In the same section you can disconnect Google or remove the Bing key. If Google revokes access or the key stops working, you get one email and a banner in the dashboard. Data already collected stays, and after you reconnect Anole fills in the missing days.