Google Clarifies Search Console Query Report Data Changes from August 19th

This past Sunday we revealed that Google seemed to expel some question information from the inquiry separated hunt examination or execution report inside Google Search Console. Google today issued an elucidation, clarifying that it never demonstrated these questions in Search Console yet already included the shrouded inquiries in the general totals in the outlines. Presently Google is likewise barring these mysterious inquiries from the entirety.

We recently (Aug 19) made some changes in the way Search Analytics / Search Performance calculates total numbers for its graph, when looking at queries that do not match a piece of text. We noticed some confusion, and wanted to clarify the change.

Previously, we included the sum of queries that weren’t tracked in Search Console in the totals for “query not containing”. Eg, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive info. (“anonymous queries”).

Going ahead, we're just including the aggregate of those that we track and can coordinate in Search Console. This change doesn't influence the inquiries appeared in Search Console, nor how we treat these unmanaged questions.

It also doesn’t change views of this report that do not use the “query not containing” filter. We’ve added an annotation in Search Analytics to notify users of this change. There’s a bit more at https://support.google.com/

Going ahead, Google Analytics will never again demonstrate a placeholder with "other" for these separated questions. It additionally won't be conceivable to add this to the API. We rolled out this improvement to represent more questions and to help energizing Search Analytics includes not far off.

Of course, seeing huge drops in the sum of your query data when the query filter is added can make things look bad. But you need to understand that this is not an indication that your site is performing worse in Google but rather that Google has changed how these reports calculate — thus what may appear to be a dip may be nothing at all.