Search Console Click Through Results
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Hi Moz Community,
I've newly started using Google's search console on a regular basis, and I have a query about the results coming from the platform.
For example, I added this article URL to the console with field "URL containing" and "URL exact", and the results showed 71 clicks and 436 impressions over 12 months.
However, when looking at the queries that show in the results to see where the clicks are coming from, all of them state there's no clicks from the dozen or so queries that show.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a field I need to fill in to show more results/top results? I've tested a few article URL's and the same has happened.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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No problem, thanks a lot for your advice and if I get an answer I'll be sure to post back on here for you!
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That is actually really, really weird! I am sorry that I don't have an answer for you. What would be really cool, would be if you posted the Search Console bug on Google's Webmaster Central help forum. A Google rep or someone from the wider community may reply. If someone from their side does crack it, I'd be interested to hear the update here on Moz's forums
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Thanks for your response.
Following what you’ve said, we can see the results of clickthroughs and impressions to our web page, stating there are 71 clickthroughs. Screenshot - https://imgur.com/BJHeyYp
However, when we review the queries section for the same page, it states there are no clickthroughs for any of the queries showing. Screenshot – https://imgur.com/YKJbaut (8 of 8 queries shown).
This seems odd to me, and my question is where can we see the queries that resulted in the clickthroughs to this page, if they’re not showing here?
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1.) Select a web property in Google Search Console (remember that 'www' usage, protocol and HTTP vs HTTPS usage all render as different web properties in Search Console)
- https://d.pr/i/cqH7XR.png (screenshot)
2.) Don't go into "Search Analytics", go into Google's new "Performance" report instead
- https://d.pr/i/PGwX48.png (screenshot)
3.) Click to browse pages, apply a filter here if it is your desire to do so (but it is not required, this can all be done with the mouse only). Once you find the page you want, click on it
- https://d.pr/i/EeKlNh.png (screenshot)
4.) Once the page you want to look at has been 'clicked' and only that page is visible, go back to query data
- https://d.pr/i/xP05QX.png (screenshot)
5.) Check out the query data, which is related only to your chosen page
- https://d.pr/i/hZ1LM3.png (screenshot)
And that's that!
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