# Connect Google Search Console to Blackbox

URL: https://blackbox.plus/guides/connect-search-console
Level 1: Get set up (https://blackbox.plus/guides/get-set-up)
Updated: 2026-10-20
Time: about 2 minutes
You'll end with: Search Console connected, with up to 16 months of search queries and clicks in Blackbox
Do it in Blackbox: https://blackbox.plus/app/data

> See the queries, clicks and positions your site earns in Google next to your paid and social numbers. This connection can only read.

## Short answer

To connect Google Search Console to Blackbox (blackbox.plus), you need a verified property and a Google account with access to it. In Blackbox, open Data, click Connect a channel, choose the Google Search Console tile and Continue to Google. Google asks to view your Search Console data — a read-only request with no version that can change anything — so approve it. There is nothing to pick afterwards: your verified properties appear after the first sync. Blackbox backfills as much history as Google keeps, roughly sixteen months, so the first sync takes longer than later ones. It reads daily clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position, the search queries your site appears for, and the pages that earn them. It cannot change anything, submit or remove URLs, edit sitemaps, or see properties your Google account cannot already read. Properties where your access is unverified are skipped, and this connection is separate from Google Ads.

## You'll need

- **A verified property.** The site must already be verified in Google Search Console — Blackbox can’t verify one for you.
- **Access to that property.** The Google account you sign in with must own it or have full access. Owning the domain is not the same thing.

## How to connect Google Search Console to Blackbox

1. **Open Data.** In Blackbox, click **Data** in the left menu.
   You'll see: Your channels, with **Connect a channel** at the top right.
   ![The top of the Data page in Blackbox: the Data heading, a line saying how many channels are connected, and the Connect a channel button on the right](https://blackbox.plus/guides/shared/01-data.png)
2. **Pick the Google Search Console tile.** Click **Connect a channel**, then the **Google Search Console** tile under **Social & search**.
   You'll see: What you need and what happens next, with **Continue to Google** below.
   ![The Connect a channel window with the Google Search Console tile picked: what you need, what happens next, and the Continue to Google button ringed](https://blackbox.plus/guides/connect-search-console/02-provider.png)
3. **Approve on Google.** Click **Continue to Google** and approve the request to view your Search Console data.
   You'll see: You’re back on Data, with **Google Search Console** under **Social & search**.

## Good to know

- New to Blackbox? Setup connects your first channel as one of its steps — see [How to get started with Blackbox](https://blackbox.plus/guides/get-started).
- The request is read-only: there is no version of it that can change anything.
- There is nothing to pick. Every verified property that login can read is found on the first sync.
- The first sync backfills about sixteen months, so it takes longer than later ones.

## Blackbox can read

- Your daily clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position
- The search queries your site appears for, and how each one performs
- Which pages earn those impressions and clicks

## Blackbox will not

- Change anything at all — this connection is read-only, and there is no write path in Blackbox for it
- Submit or remove URLs, edit sitemaps or alter your Search Console settings
- See properties your Google account cannot already read

## Questions people ask

**My property is missing**

Blackbox skips properties where your access is unverified, because Google refuses every request against them. Verify the property, or ask its owner for full access, then reconnect.

**I see both a domain property and a URL property**

They are separate properties with separate data. A domain property covers every subdomain and both http and https; a URL-prefix one covers only that prefix. Use whichever you report on.

**Yesterday's numbers changed**

Google revises recent days for about three days. Blackbox re-reads them, so the last couple of days settle rather than staying wrong.

**Data older than about 16 months is missing**

Google only keeps roughly sixteen months, and Blackbox backfills all of it on the first sync. Anything older is not available from Google at all.

**Google Ads is connected, but there are no search queries**

Search Console is a separate connection with its own permissions, even on the same Google account. Connect it from the Data page; disconnecting one leaves the other working.