Connect your data

A project is free to create. Connecting first-party data makes measurement more reliable; connecting a CMS gives the engine a safe way to apply supported changes once the site is managed.

Recommended setup

1. Sign in, then on Projects choose Connect Search Console. This is a separate Google permission step even if you used Google to sign in. Grant read-only Search Console access and, if you approve it on the consent screen, Google Analytics access.
2. Your Search Console sites appear as a catalog. Domain and URL-prefix properties for the same site are grouped together. Choose Add free project for a site you want to work on; the property is attached and its first search sync begins. Hide sites you do not need with the X on their card; you can restore them from Hidden below the catalog.
3. If a site is missing from Search Console, choose Add a site manually. Enter its domain and connect Google later. A matching property can be attached automatically after the connection refreshes.
4. Optionally connect Wix so the engine can read and update published pages, and Cloudflare to see which AI crawlers fetch your pages.
5. If your plan has an available managed-site position, choose Make managed on the project card to assign it. Creating a free project never uses a managed position automatically. In Project Settings, describe the business, audience, conversion goals, brand constraints, and competitors, and confirm the included and excluded paths.
6. Choose the autonomy mode. Copilot is the default.

SERPclimber manages the providers used for crawling, backlinks, keyword data, AI answers, and language models. There are no keys to paste for them; paid provider work uses the account's shared credits. See Settings → Plan & usage for balances and spending controls.

The first audit

For managed projects, the first audit starts after activation and repeats weekly. It crawls the site, checks crawl and index access, on-page signals, internal linking, structured data, AI crawler access, and citation gaps, and files its findings under Audit. The most useful findings are promoted into Tasks; the rest stay in Audit until they become relevant.

Search Console evidence appears on Performance → SEO as soon as the first sync lands. A managed project can scan for AI answers without Search Console, and you can ask a question directly on Performance → AI answers. Connecting Search Console adds the queries you already rank for to future scans.

No connection grants unlimited authority. Project scope, autonomy rules, action risk, spend limits, and required approvals still apply to every operation.