Google Ads integration
Log campaign starts, pauses, and budget changes as Campaign notes, so a shift in traffic or conversions lines up with the ad change behind it.
A budget bump or a paused campaign moves your numbers within hours, but it never shows up next to the analytics. This integration puts those ad-side changes on your timeline as Campaign notes, beside the deploys and config changes from the same day.
What lands on your timeline
For the account you connect, CoNote records a Campaign note when a campaign is created, paused, enabled, or removed, and when a budget changes. It reads Google Ads' own change history, so it captures who-changed-what without anything to install.
Who made the change
Not every change in a Google Ads account comes from your team. Google applies some of them by itself, through auto-apply recommendations, and an account can also run automated rules or scripts. Those changes move your numbers exactly like a manual one, and they are easy to miss because they often happen overnight.
Every note says which it was, right in the title:
| The note starts with | What happened |
|---|---|
| Google Ads … | Someone on your team made the change |
| Google auto-applied a recommendation: … | Google made the change on its own |
| Google Ads recommendation applied: … | The change came from Google's recommendations |
| Google Ads automated rule: … | An automated rule in the account made it |
| Google Ads script: … | A script in the account made it |
This is the fastest way to answer "did we do that?" weeks later. If performance shifted on a day nobody remembers touching the account, look for a note that starts with Google auto-applied.
How it works
CoNote checks your account on a schedule (every 15 minutes), reads its change history, and records anything new. Connect it once and never touch it again. The connection is read-only.
Google Ads keeps only about 30 days of change history, so connect the account before you need the record. Changes older than a month can't be backfilled.
Setting it up
Add the integration
In Integrations, choose Google Ads.
Sign in with Google
Click the sign-in button and sign in to the Google account that has access to your Google Ads account, so CoNote can check for changes. CoNote stores only an encrypted access token, never your password.
Select your account
Choose the Ads account to track from the dropdown. If you work through a manager account (MCC), the accounts underneath it are listed as well, each marked with the manager it belongs to. Pick the account that runs the campaigns, not the manager account itself.
Pair Google Ads with your analytics changes on the timeline: when conversions move, you can see the campaign or budget change from that day right next to the deploy or tracking change.