Connect Search Console (read-only).

This is the step that makes recto different. With Search Console connected, recto ranks your orphans by the traffic they already earn — so you fix the page bleeding the most impressions first, not just the deepest one. It is read-only: recto never writes to Search Console.

You’ll need: the site already added to Google Search Console as a verified property, and you signed in with a Google account that is an owner or full user of that property.

1Start the connection in recto

On the Search Console screen, click Connect Google Search Console. recto sends you to Google’s own consent page — you authorise Google directly, never by handing recto a password.

The recto Search Console screen. A red box highlights the Connect Google Search Console button. — One read-only OAuth grant. You can skip this and connect it later from settings.

2Choose the right Google account

On Google’s page, pick the account that owns the property for your site. If you manage Search Console under a different email than your everyday Google login, choose that one here — picking the wrong account is the most common reason a property doesn’t show up afterwards.

3Grant read-only access

Google shows exactly what recto is asking for: read-only access to your Search Console data. Review it and click Allow. recto reads your query and impression numbers; it has no permission to change anything in your Google account.

4Pick the matching property

Back in recto, choose the Search Console property that matches the site you connected — the domain property (e.g. yoursite.com) or the URL-prefix property (e.g. https://yoursite.com/). recto then ranks your orphans by lost impressions. See Orphans & ranking for how that ordering works.

Your property isn’t listed? You’re signed in with a Google account that isn’t an owner of it, or the property was never verified in Search Console. Add yourself as a user in Search Console, or reconnect with the owning account. Skipping this step is fine too — recto still finds and fixes orphans, it just ranks them by link structure instead of traffic.

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