This guide contains all permissions and requirements for connecting your Searchmetrics data to Supermetrics.
You can connect to data sources from the Data sources page on the Supermetrics Hub. On the Hub, you can also share an authentication link to connect to a data source you don't have direct access to.
After you connect to the data source on the Hub, you can use the data source connection in all available destinations.
Required permissions
To connect to Supermetrics, your Searchmetrics account needs:
- Administrator access
- An API key and API secret
- Export credits
- Every data request costs Searchmetrics export credits, even when you're just testing queries. Learn more about this in Searchmetrics' API documentation.
Query types
Query types define what sort of metrics and dimensions are available. You need to select one of the following query types when pulling data.
- Research data category
- Research Organic: Get Value SEO Rank
- Research Organic: Get Value SEO Visibility
- Research Organic: Get Value Traffic Value
- Research Organic: Get List SEO Visibility Historic
- Research Organic: Get List Rankings Domain Historic
- Research Organic: Get List Rankings Keyword Historic
- Research Keywords: Get List Keyword Info
- Research Keywords: Get List Similar Keywords
- Research Keywords: Get List Similar Keywords Phrase
- Research Paid: Get List Keywords Longtail
- Research Content: Get List URL Keyword Rankings
- Research Organic: Get List Competitors
- Research Links: Get Count Backlinks
- Research Keywords: Get List Winners
- Research Keywords: Get List Losers
- Research Content: Get List Top URLS
- Project data category
- Project Organic: Get Value Marketshare
- Project Organic: Get Value SEO Visibility
- Project Organic: Get List SEO Visibility Historic
- Project Organic: Get List Position Spread Historic
- Project Organic: Get List Marketshare
- Project Organic: Get List Winners
- Project Organic: Get List Losers
- Project Organic: Get List Rankings Historic
- Project Organic: Get List URL Rankings
- Project Organic: Get List Tag Potentials
- Project Organic: Get List Keyword Potentials
- Project Organic: Get List Benchmark Rankings
- Admin status data category
- Admin Status: Get List Projects
- Admin Status: Get List Project Search Engines
- Admin Status: Get Value Available Credits
Connection instructions
When connecting to Searchmetrics, you need to provide your API key and API secret and specify what URLs to query.
- Select the Searchmetrics data source on the Supermetrics Hub or in the data destination.
- Enter your API key and API secret.
- If prompted, choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- In your data destination, select a query type and a country, and add the URLs in the Type URL field, separated by new lines or commas with no whitespace (,).
See detailed instructions on how to connect to a data source from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can also connect to Searchmetrics from these destinations:
- Google Sheets: How to log in to a Supermetrics data source in Google Sheets
- Looker Studio: How to connect data sources to Looker Studio
- Excel: How to connect data sources to Excel with Supermetrics
- Power BI: How to create your first Supermetrics query for Power BI
- The Supermetrics API: How to use the Query Manager
- Data warehouse and cloud storage (Hub): How to create a transfer
- BigQuery (marketplace): How to create a BigQuery (marketplace) transfer