Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 7:45:29 GMT
The are many scenarios where this is true but let me just explain one. Imagine you add new content and your keyword starts at position then moves to then and eventually to . Now imagine you create a different piece of content and it sits at position never wavering. GSC will report both as having an average position of . The first though will receive considerable traffic for the time that it is in position and the latter will never receive any. GSCs averaging method based on impression data obscures the underlying features too much to provide relevant projections. Until something changes explicitly in Googles method for collecting rank data for GSC it will not be sufficient for getting at the truth of your sites current position.
Reconciliation So how do we reconcile the experimental results with Europe Cell Phone Number List the comparative results both the positives and negatives of GSC Search Analytics Well I think there are a couple of clear takeaways. Impression data is misleading at best and simply false at worst We can be certain that all impressions are not captured and are not accurately reflected in the GSC data. Click data is proportionally accurate Clicks can be trusted as a proportional metric ie correlates with reality but not as a specific data point. rank but not what pages they actually land on. Understanding this reconciliation can be quite valuable.
For example if you find your click data in GSC is not proportional to your Google Analytics data there is a high probability that your site is utilizing redirects in a way that Googlebot has not yet discovered or applied. This could be indicative of an underlying problem which needs to be addressed. Final thoughts Google Search Console provides a great deal of invaluable data which smart webmasters rely upon to make datadriven marketing decisions. However we should remain skeptical of this data like any data.
Reconciliation So how do we reconcile the experimental results with Europe Cell Phone Number List the comparative results both the positives and negatives of GSC Search Analytics Well I think there are a couple of clear takeaways. Impression data is misleading at best and simply false at worst We can be certain that all impressions are not captured and are not accurately reflected in the GSC data. Click data is proportionally accurate Clicks can be trusted as a proportional metric ie correlates with reality but not as a specific data point. rank but not what pages they actually land on. Understanding this reconciliation can be quite valuable.
For example if you find your click data in GSC is not proportional to your Google Analytics data there is a high probability that your site is utilizing redirects in a way that Googlebot has not yet discovered or applied. This could be indicative of an underlying problem which needs to be addressed. Final thoughts Google Search Console provides a great deal of invaluable data which smart webmasters rely upon to make datadriven marketing decisions. However we should remain skeptical of this data like any data.