Google Analytics shows you the traffic that comes to your website from a lot of different places like Facebook, emails you send out and from search engines. Google Search Console is a separate tool that allows you to submit sitemaps for crawling by googlebots, but that also gives you a huge wealth of data about people searching on google.co.uk (if you are in the UK of course! Other countries are also available in the world!).
If you are serious about learning more about website visitor behaviour and want to dabble in SEO, then you need both tools to help you.
Linking the two accounts together is a task that doesn’t happen automatically when you set up your analytics account and tracking in the first place. But it is super simple to fix.
You should be logged in as the account that has access to both Analytics and Search Console in order to make this happen successfully. If this fails for whatever reason, make sure you have access to both or login to the account that has the ‘master’ permissions.
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