--- title: Getting started with QuickSEO description: Sign in, connect Google Search Console, choose your websites, and find your way around the overview, each website’s dashboard, page groups and the SEO audit. --- # Getting started with QuickSEO QuickSEO is a Google Search Console dashboard for all your websites. You sign in, connect Search Console, choose which properties to add, and every one of them gets its own dashboard plus a card on a shared overview. This guide walks through each screen in the order you'll meet it. ## Sign in Open the [sign-in page](https://quickseo.ai/auth/login) and pick one of two ways in: - **Continue with Google.** Google asks for your basic profile and for read-only access to Search Console. Keep the Search Console box ticked and your account is connected in the same step — you go straight to choosing websites. - **Continue with Email.** We email you a 6-digit code; enter it on the **Check your email** screen and click **Verify**. Email accounts connect Search Console in a separate step, described next. ## Connect Google Search Console If you signed in with email, or unticked the Search Console permission on Google's screen, QuickSEO shows a **Connect Google Search Console** card instead of your websites. Click the button, choose the Google account that has access to your Search Console properties, and approve read-only access. QuickSEO only ever reads: the card says **Read-only — we never change your Search Console**, and the permission we ask Google for is the read-only Search Console scope. If something goes wrong on Google's screen, you land back on the same card with a short note. Cancelling says that nothing was connected; unticking Search Console asks you to tick it next time, because without it there is nothing to read. ## Pick your websites Once connected, the **Choose websites to add** list shows every Search Console property your Google account can access, and each one you add becomes a website in QuickSEO. - **Domain and URL-prefix properties both work.** Each row is labelled **Domain** or **URL prefix** and shows your permission level (**Owner**, **Full** or **Restricted**). A Domain property covers every subdomain and both http and https; a URL-prefix property covers only the addresses that start with that prefix. - **Unverified properties are hidden.** If your Google account is listed on a property but isn't verified for it, you can't read its data, so it isn't offered. The list says how many were hidden, for example "2 properties hidden — your Google account isn't verified for them in Search Console." - **Everything is selected on the first visit.** Use **Select all** and **Select none** to change that, or untick individual rows. With more than ten properties a **Filter properties** box appears. Click **Add websites** (it reads **Add 3 websites** with three selected) and you land on the overview. If Search Console lists no properties at all, add and verify your website in Google Search Console first, then come back. ## All websites overview **All websites** — in the website menu at the top of the sidebar — shows one card per website with its clicks, impressions, CTR and average position, each with its change against the previous period of the same length, and a small chart of clicks and impressions. The date range at the top applies to every card at once — from **Last 7 Days** up to **Last 3 Years** — and hovering a change shows the period it is measured against. The range you pick is remembered and is also what a website's own dashboard opens with. Click any card to open that website's dashboard. With more than eight websites, a **Filter websites** box appears. A card can also tell you it has nothing to show yet: **No Search Console property linked**, **Google access lost** (see [reconnecting Google](#reconnecting-google)), or **Couldn't load** with a **Retry** button when Search Console didn't answer. Search Console itself reports with a delay of about two days, so the most recent days in any range are usually still empty. That lag is Google's, and it is the same in Search Console. ## A website's dashboard Each website's dashboard is the place to go deeper. Its header holds the branded filter, the date range, and a gear icon for **Website settings**. ### Chart The performance chart starts with **Clicks** and **Impressions** switched on. The toggles above it add or remove **CTR, %** and **Position**, and the same switches decide which columns the tables below show. ### Keywords, pages, countries and devices Below the chart are three cards and the technical SEO audit: - **Keywords** — the search queries behind your traffic. - **Pages** and **Page Groups** — one card with two tabs. Page groups are on the paid plan, see [page groups](#page-groups). - **Countries** and **Devices** — one card with two tabs. Each card's **Filter** menu has a **Trend** section — **All**, **Growing** or **Decaying** — showing what gained or lost the most clicks against the previous period. The Keywords card also has a **Pattern** section for narrowing to kinds of queries, such as questions or queries of a certain length. **View All** opens the full list. ### Filters Clicking a country or a device filters the whole dashboard to it. Every active filter shows as a chip above the chart, such as **Keyword: running shoes** or **Device: Mobile**; click a chip to remove it, or **Clear all** when there's more than one. ### Detail drawers Clicking a keyword, a page or a page group opens a drawer on the right instead of leaving the dashboard. It shows clicks, impressions, CTR and position for that one item, a chart of its clicks, and the related list — the top pages for a keyword, or the top keywords for a page or a page group. **Filter dashboard** in the drawer's header filters the whole dashboard to that item. ## Branded vs non-branded The **All**, **Branded** and **Non-branded** switch in a website's header splits searches for your brand from everything else. A keyword counts as branded when it contains one of the website's branded terms. When a website is added, QuickSEO fills in branded terms from its domain — `my-shop.com` starts with `my-shop`, `my shop` and `myshop`. Terms shorter than three characters are skipped because they would match too many queries. Edit them in the **Branded Terms** card of the website's settings. If a website has no branded terms, the header shows a **Configure branded terms** link in place of the switch. ## Page groups Page groups are on the paid plan. A page group is a set of pages matched by URL, such as everything under `/blog`, and it gets its own clicks, impressions and trend, just like a single page. To create one, open the **Page Groups** tab on the website's dashboard and click **Add group**. Give the group a name, then add one or more filters — **URL contains**, **URL equals**, **URL doesn't contain** or **URL doesn't equal** — with an expression such as `/blog`. A page has to match every filter in the group. Click **Add group** to save. The tab also suggests groups from your site's top-level folders, such as `/blog/` or `/docs/`, shown as greyed rows: the plus button adds one, the cross dismisses it. On the free plan the tab shows a preview and an **Unlock page groups** button instead. ## Technical SEO audit Every website gets a technical SEO audit when it's added, and again every week, on every plan. It reads the homepage, robots.txt, the sitemap and a sample of pages, and runs 26 checks across crawlability, indexation, on-page SEO, structured data and AI crawler access in robots.txt. The **Technical SEO Audit** card on the dashboard shows the latest score and how many checks are critical, how many are warnings and how many passed. **View report** — or **Technical SEO Audit** in the sidebar — opens the full audit: the category breakdown, every issue with its fix, and the score over time. **Re-run audit** runs it again whenever you like. ## Adding and removing websites **Add websites** at the top of the overview opens **Add or manage websites**: the same property list, with the websites you already have marked **Added**. Tick new properties and click **Add websites** to add them. To remove a website, click the bin icon on its row and confirm. Removing deletes the website's page groups and audit history from QuickSEO; your Search Console data is not affected, and you can add the website again at any time. **Delete site** in the **Danger Zone** card of a website's settings does the same. ## Reconnecting Google If Google access expires or is revoked — for example after you remove QuickSEO from your Google account's permissions — QuickSEO can no longer read your data. Each card on the overview then says **Google access lost** with a **Reconnect Google** button, and the property list shows **Reconnect Google Search Console**. Reconnecting takes you through the same Google screen as before; your websites, page groups and branded terms are kept. ## MCP The paid plan includes an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor and other MCP-compatible AI agents can read your Search Console data and SEO audits for you. It has eight read-only tools, and each one works on one website at a time. Setup and the tool list are in the [MCP server docs](https://quickseo.ai/docs/mcp). ## Plans The free plan includes everything on this page except page groups and the MCP server: unlimited websites, every dashboard, keywords, pages, countries and devices, growing and decaying lists, the branded filter and the weekly technical SEO audit. No card is needed. The paid plan adds **page groups** and the **MCP server**. New customers get a 14-day trial, once per customer: the card is collected at checkout and isn't charged during the trial, and you can cancel anytime from your account's billing settings. See [pricing](https://quickseo.ai/pricing) for the details. --- Stuck on a step? [Email support@quickseo.ai](mailto:support@quickseo.ai?subject=Getting%20started).