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Title: What are impressions, position, and clicks? - Search Console Help

Description: This page helps explain impressions, position values, and click data as used in Search Console, and especially in the Performance reports. The heuristics described here—such as the visibility requ

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Skip to main contenthttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#search-form
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Search Consolehttps://search.google.com/search-console
Privacy Policyhttps://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html
Terms of Servicehttps://www.google.com/accounts/TOS
Help Centerhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en
Communityhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/community?hl=en&help_center_link=CIzurQMSK1doYXQgYXJlIGltcHJlc3Npb25zLCBwb3NpdGlvbiwgYW5kIGNsaWNrcz8
Search Consolehttps://search.google.com/search-console
Important conceptshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/9459871?hl=en&ref_topic=9128571
What are impressions, position, and clicks?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828
Performance reportshttps://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/search-analytics
What is an impression?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#impressions
What is search result position?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#position
What is a click?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#click
What URL is my data assigned to?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#url
Additional methodology details by result typehttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#element-details
performance reportshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/9384513
See more details below.https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#impressions
See more details below.https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#click
See more details below.https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#position
many different formatshttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/search-result-features
plain blue linkhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/search-result-features#general-categories-of-search-results
horizontally scrolling listhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/carousel
knowledge panel entryhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/search-result-features#expandable-4
See more detailshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#url
results carouselhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/carousel
FAQhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#faq
element-specific detailshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#element-details
List/detail rich resultshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#listing-details-rich-result
previous diagramhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#position_diagram
non-query-refinementhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#query-refinement
carousel of van Gogh paintingshttps://www.google.com/search?q=van+gogh+paintings&oq=van+gogh+paintings
What is a query refinement?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#query-refinement
cat breedshttps://www.google.com/search?q=cat+breeds&oq=cat+breeds
canonical URLhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls#definition
filterhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553#filteringdata
AI Modehttps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16011537
Standard impression rules applyhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#impressions
same methodology as a Google Search results pagehttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#position
experiments in Search Labshttps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14184960
AI Overviewshttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-overviews
experiments in Search Labshttps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14184960
AMP pagehttps://www.ampproject.org/docs/get_started/about-amp.html
rich resulthttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7506797
Carouselhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-listings
Discoverhttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9046777
FAQ rich resultshttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/faqpage
featured snippethttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6229325
Rich results are defined using structured datahttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/search-result-features?hl=en#rich-result
combined search results pagehttps://www.google.com/search?q=daffodils
image search results pagehttps://www.google.com/search?q=daffodils&tbm=isch
Job postinghttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/job-postings
Eventhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/event
This can cause your impressions to be higher than your clicks.https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#impressions_higher_than_clicks
Media Actionhttps://developers.google.com/actions/media/
Standard position ruleshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#position
news.google.comhttps://news.google.com/topstories
Androidhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.magazines
iOShttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-news/id459182288
Performance report for Newshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10083653
Google Newshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10083653?hl=en&ref_topic=9384513#covered_platforms
Google Newshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10083653?hl=en&ref_topic=9384513#covered_platforms
plain blue linkshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#old_blue
practice problem resulthttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/practice-problems
Post to the help community Get answers from community members https://support.google.com/webmasters/community?hl=en&help_center_link=CIzurQMSK1doYXQgYXJlIGltcHJlc3Npb25zLCBwb3NpdGlvbiwgYW5kIGNsaWNrcz8
Important conceptshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/9459871?hl=en&ref_topic=9128571
Navigating a Search Console reporthttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10352053?hl=en&ref_topic=9459871
What are impressions, position, and clicks?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828
How Google Search Works ↗︎https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/70897?hl=en&ref_topic=9459871
About Search Console datahttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96568?hl=en&ref_topic=9459871
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9128669?hl=en&ref_topic=9128571
New to Search Console?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9128669?hl=en&ref_topic=9128571
Privacy Policyhttps://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html
Terms of Servicehttps://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

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