Safely share access to your site in Webmaster Tools
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
We just launched a new feature that allows you as a verified site owner to grant limited access to
your site's data and settings in Webmaster Tools. You've had the ability to
grant full verified access to others
for a couple of years. Since then we've heard lots of requests from site owners for the ability to
grant limited permission for others to view a site's data in Webmaster Tools without being able to
modify all the settings. Now you can do exactly that with our new User administration feature.
On the Home page when you click the "Manage site" drop-down menu you'll see the menu option that
was previously titled "Add or remove owners" is now "Add or remove users."
Selecting the "Add or remove users" menu item will take you to the new User administration page
where you can add or delete up to 100 users and specify each user's access as "Full" or
"Restricted." Users added via the User administration page are tied to a specific site. If you
become unverified for that site any users that you've added will lose their access to that site in
Webmaster Tools. Adding or removing verified site owners is still done on the owner verification
page which is linked from the User administration page.
Granting a user "Full" permission means that they will be able to view all data and take most
actions, such as changing site settings or demoting sitelinks. When a user's permission is set to
"Restricted" they will only have access to view most data, and can take some actions such as
using Fetch as Googlebot and configuring message forwarding for their account. Restricted users
will see a "Restricted Access" indicator at various locations within Webmaster Tools.
To see which features and actions are accessible for Restricted users, Full users and site owners,
visit our
Permissions Help Center article.
We hope the addition of Full and Restricted users makes management of your site in Webmaster Tools
easier since you can now grant access within a more limited scope to help prevent undesirable or
unauthorized changes. If you have questions or feedback about the new User administration feature
please let us know in our
Help Forum.
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