Connecting an account to a tool you just met is a fair thing to be cautious about. Most people picture a bot logging in and pinning things at 2am under their name. That is not what happens here, and it is worth spelling out exactly what does.
PIN Hacking is an approved Pinterest API partner and an approved Google API partner. Both connections are read-only. We look at your numbers so you can stop guessing. We never write, publish, or change anything.
Why two connections instead of one
Pinterest can tell you what happened on Pinterest. Google can tell you what happened on your site and in search. Neither one, on its own, can tell you whether a pin turned into a reader who stayed.
Put them side by side and the questions get answerable. Which pins are still bringing people in months after you published them. Which topics you already own and which ones you keep skipping. Whether the traffic Pinterest sends actually behaves like the traffic you want.
That is the whole reason for the second connection. Not more data for the sake of it, one continuous line from a pin to a visit.
What the Pinterest connection reads
Your account, and only your account:
- Your boards and how they are organized
- Your pins, including the ones you published long before you found us
- Performance for those pins over time, things like impressions, saves, and outbound clicks
That history is the useful part. A single week of numbers tells you almost nothing on Pinterest, where a pin can go quiet for a season and then wake up. Reading performance over time is how you spot the pins that are worth resurfacing instead of replacing.
What the Google connection reads
Your own site, and only your own site:
- Analytics: how visitors arrive and how they behave once they land
- Search Console: how your pages perform in search, including the queries people used to find them
This is the half most Pinterest tools skip, and it is the half that keeps you honest. A pin with big impressions and no follow-through on the other side is not a win, it is a warning.
What we never do
There is no polite way to make this list interesting, so here it is plainly:
- We never post or pin anything for you
- We never edit, rename, or delete your boards or pins
- We never touch an account that is not yours
- We never schedule anything without you clicking the button yourself
Both connections are read-only, and you can disconnect either one at any time from your integrations page. Publishing stays where it belongs, with you.
What that access actually unlocks
Once both sides are connected, the tools stop giving you generic advice and start answering questions about your account:
- Which of your pins are still earning long after the freshness boost faded
- Which topics you have already covered, and the gaps you keep circling but never publish
- When your seasonal winners started climbing last year, so this year you are early instead of late
- Copy and titles built from the patterns in your own top performers rather than someone else's
Without the connections, the tools still work. You just have to tell them everything yourself. With them, the data, the content plan, and the copy show up together in seconds.
Approved partner, boring by design
Approved Pinterest API partner. Approved Google API partner. Read-only connection.
Approved access means the connection runs through the official route, with the permissions you granted and nothing beyond them. It is the least dramatic part of the product, and that is exactly the point.