# Connect Google Search Console to MetaPilot **Category:** Setup · **Time:** 5 min Google already knows which of your pages it puts in front of people. Connecting Search Console hands MetaPilot that list, so the pages earning impressions with no structured data come to the top, and the queries a page already appears for go into the prompt that writes its title. It takes about five minutes and it is read-only. --- > **Before you start** > You need a Google account where **this site is already verified in Search Console**. That has to happen at Google rather than here, and MetaPilot cannot do it for you. If the account has verified nothing, the page tells you so and links to Google's instructions. --- ## Steps ### 1. Open Settings → Search Console Sign in to MetaPilot and open **Settings → Search Console**. It is there on every plan, including Free. There is nothing to buy and no gate to pass. ### 2. Connect Google Click **Connect Google Search Console** and approve the consent screen. MetaPilot asks for **read-only** Search Console access and nothing else: it never writes to your Search Console, submits sitemaps, or requests indexing. Google sends you straight back to the same page. ### 3. Choose which property to read MetaPilot deliberately does not pick for you. Click **Choose property** and select yours. A **domain property** is marked as recommended because it covers http, https, www, and non-www together, so more of your pages match. Nothing syncs until this is done. ### 4. Let the first sync run The first pull happens that night, then every night after. It backfills as much history as your plan keeps. Each later run re-pulls the last few days and replaces them, because Google finalizes a day two to three days after it happens and keeps revising it. ### 5. Work Optimize → Opportunities **Opportunities** appears under **Optimize** once a property is chosen. It lists only the pages Google sent impressions to over the last 28 days that still have no structured data, highest impressions first. Each row shows the query it already ranks for alongside its clicks, click-through rate, and position. ### 6. Click Optimize on the top row MetaPilot fetches that page and writes its title, description, and structured data with the page's own search queries in the prompt — rather than a keyword inferred from the copy. It goes through the same pipeline as everything else, so if you have approval switched on it waits in your review queue. Then work down the list. --- **Good to know.** This is a read, not a rank tracker. Google gives you impressions, clicks, and position for free and MetaPilot does not replace that report: what it adds is an order to work in, and the real queries in the writing. Disconnecting withdraws the access at Google and keeps the history already pulled, so reconnecting later finds the data waiting. --- ## Ready to connect Search Console? Sign in and open **Settings → Search Console**. Free on every plan, including Free.