Increase in Rankings, but search visibility is decreasing
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I just started updating my site with the very basics, focus keyword, meta description, and page titles. I see that I am going up in my targeted keywords, however my search visibility has dropped from 3.34% to 2.78%.
My assumption is that my keyword choice is a little off, however I see that I have increased in keyword rankings and dropped very little in what I was ranking for previously, plus the keyword volume seems relatively the same. In fact I've added far more keywords than I have dropped.
Curious why my search visibility has dropped, however my keyword rankings only seem to increase.
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It's a normal process when you start to optimize your website the more specific you are, the more precise information you get.
For example, when I started to optimize my website, I started using our brand keywords and the numbers were insane from 2% went to 80% of visibility, of course, it just was our main brand keywords.
Things changed when I try to use generic keywords then my visibility drop off and then I started to see real numbers
It is an arithmetic trick
Moz Search Visibility score represents your overall ranking performance for your tracked keywords. It’s calculated by:
- Taking all of your keywords and the associated URL’s position and applying a CTR for each position.
- The CTRs are then summed
- This number is then divided by the total number of keywords.
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