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Connect Search Console to back MentionFlow's demand estimates with your real search data, and to see which of your own pages AI assistants cite.

MentionFlow estimates how often a question is really asked. An estimate is better with real evidence behind it. Connecting Google Search Console gives it that evidence. MentionFlow then backs its demand numbers with the searches Google actually recorded for your site, and tells you which of your own pages AI assistants cite. "You are being cited somewhere" becomes "this page won the citation."

Access is read-only and limited to the site you own. MentionFlow never writes to Search Console, and only accepts a property that covers your brand's domain.

What connecting unlocks

  • Measured demand. Prompts whose underlying searches appear in your Search Console data move from estimated to measured. That is the highest-confidence tier MentionFlow shows. See the demand confidence tiers.
  • Page-level citation tracking for your own pages. You see not just that you were cited, but which page earned it.

How to connect

You connect from Settings. It takes two steps:

  1. An owner or admin approves read-only Search Console access through Google. The handoff is signed and expires in 15 minutes, so a stale link cannot be replayed.
  2. Choose the property that matches your brand's domain. MentionFlow refuses any property that does not cover your domain. Attaching an unrelated site would poison your search metrics, so the gate will not allow it.

If you ever disconnect or switch properties, MentionFlow deletes the stored Search Console data. It also quietly demotes those "measured" prompts back to estimates. It will not keep showing numbers it can no longer stand behind.

How the numbers work

  • The Search Console join happens only for pages you own. Competitor pages never get Search Console numbers. That is a deliberate line, not a missing feature. Where there is no connection, the relevant tiles show an em-dash rather than a guess.
  • The window is a 30-day span labelled "28d", because Search Console data lags about three days. The label reflects the data you can actually trust.
  • Average position is impression-weighted. It shows nothing (null) when there were zero impressions.
  • Striking distance flags queries ranked 8 to 20 with real impressions. Those pages sit close enough that a little work could move them onto the first screen.

Requirements

  • Google OAuth must be set up for your MentionFlow instance.
  • Only an owner or admin can connect.
  • Competitor pages never receive Search Console numbers. By design.

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