Google Search Console integration
Log sitemap changes and significant search-traffic swings as SEO notes, so a clicks drop lines up with the deploy or change that caused it.
A search-traffic drop is the last thing you notice and the hardest to explain — by the time it shows up, the change that caused it is days back. This integration puts the moments that matter on your timeline as SEO notes, next to the deploys and campaigns from the same day.
What lands on your timeline
CoNote records two kinds of SEO note for the property you connect:
- Sitemap changes — a new sitemap is submitted, or an existing one starts reporting errors.
- Search-traffic swings — a significant drop or spike in daily clicks versus the recent average (for example, "Search clicks dropped 42%"). Normal week-to-week movement logs nothing.
Manual actions (penalties) are not covered — Google provides no API for them, so no tool can read them automatically. For algorithm-update context, connect the separate Google Algorithm Updates integration.
How it works
This is a polling integration. Once a day CoNote reads your property's sitemap status and search-performance trend and records anything noteworthy — connect it once and never touch it again. The connection is read-only.
Search Console data lags about two days, so a traffic swing appears on the timeline a couple of days after it happened, stamped with the day it actually occurred.
Setting it up
Add the integration
In Integrations, choose Google Search Console.
Authorize with Google
Click authorize and sign in with the Google account that has access to your Search Console property. CoNote stores only an encrypted refresh token — never your password.
Select your property
Choose the property to track from the dropdown. Both URL-prefix and domain properties are supported.
Choose what to log
Keep sitemap changes, search-traffic swings, or both — whichever you want on the timeline.