Google webmaster tools – big change

Yes I seen it yesterday,
I find this is just more time intensive now, click here and click on that
change the date and change back again. Oh well, maybe just to get used on.

I don’t like that I can’t click through to the google listing and the actual spots are often very vague.

Now I have to copy every query into a browser to see the actual google position…

So far I am not happy…

@Dominique 218097 wrote:

I don’t like that I can’t click through to the google listing and the actual spots are often very vague.

Now I have to copy every query into a browser to see the actual google position…

So far I am not happy…

Yes, totally agree!

It’s interesting data and I appreciate Google providing it since it gives me a better idea of what sort of click thru rates you can expect for a certain keyword position. My problem with the impressions data is that it doesn’t match up with the data from their own keyword tool.

For example, one keyword that we are consistently ranked #3 or #4 shows in Webmaster tools as providing 1,900 impressions over the last 30 days, but on the keyword tool it shows 9,900 searches globally and 5,400 searches locally in March. The timeline doesn’t quite match up since Webmaster Tools doesn’t appear to go all the way back to March 1 right now, but still the data is quite a bit different, so it makes you wonder which is correct. My guess is that the lower number is correct which is a bummer since I use the keyword tool data quite a bit.

Dom, if you click on the plus sign next to a keyword (on the page showing the graph) you get data on your position in the search results and related impressions, click thrus and click thru percentage. This part of the data rocks actually.

This is what I get regarding positions when I click on + :

Position in search results
1
2
3
4
6 to 10 –
2nd page
3rd page +

The keywords that are not in the first 4 positions interest me especially, and I get vague things like 6 to 10, 2nd page, 3rd page + and no working link. So I have to copy the search into a browser and look. That adds a lot of time to using the tool for me and ruins what they have improved. I check the positions for dozens of keywords and now it’s become a day’s work to actually find them unless they are on top already.

I know the positions have always been only sort of accurate, but with the link I could verify the actual position in seconds.

I would be happy if I had a working link…