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Switch Off Impressions in Google Webmaster Tools

 

Friday December 14, 2012   Category: Web & Technology  

 

How do you switch off impression data in Google Webmaster Tools traffic graph? You can’t. And it’s annoying.

When I go to GWT I like to check my traffic data by going to “Search Queries” section. What I typically see is a flat clicks graph as impressions data always outperforms the clicks.

Having both in the graph is great, but we need to have a way of switching impressions and clicks on and off. It can’t be that hard, Bing Webmaster Tools do it.

Impressions

Webmaster Tools team I know you guys are busy but can you please bump this up on your list of things to do.

Thank you!

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  • http://twitter.com/s13_eisbaer Luke Chapman

    Yeah it’s so hard to see trends in the clicks when the line remains flat!

  • http://www.lattimore.id.au/ Alistair Lattimore

    How about just using two scales on the chart instead of turning the series of data on/off?

  • Marcin Lejman

    Not exactly convenient but you can export chart data and make your own charts :-)

  • Paul S

    To me the benefit of GWT is being able to see impressions.
    All the other info here can be seen via a SERP tracker with integrated traffic numbers.
    Like others out there our criticone tool does this.
    So I have to ask why you wouldn’t want to see impressions with traffic on the graph?
    After all click through rates are a key metric.

  • http://dejanseo.com.au/ Dejan SEO

    See Luke’s comment.

  • http://dejanseo.com.au/ Dejan SEO

    Good idea.

  • http://dejanseo.com.au/ Dejan SEO

    Too much work.

  • Paul S

    I still don’t get why you wouldn’t just use GA or other analytics platforms for a traffic breakdown. Am I missing something here?

  • chandu

    nice post, great information

  • http://www.candleforex.com/ CandleForex

    A better request is to ask Google why impression data is wrong by more than 640% as opposed to raw logs….

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