If You Could Track Only 3 SEO Metrics, Which Ones?

Risky_Spider · 2026-10-12T17:00:18+0100

Quick question for SEO people. If you could track only 3 metrics for a website, which would you choose?

Traffic, rankings, backlinks, conversions, or something else?

And which SEO metric do you think people care about too much? Curious to hear your opinions.

kiwibax · 2026-10-12T17:34:55+0100

Risky_Spider said:
Quick question for SEO people. If you could track only 3 metrics for a website, which would you choose?

Traffic, rankings, backlinks, conversions, or something else?

And which SEO metric do you think people care about too much? Curious to hear your opinions.

I would be tracking organic click throughs, leads or conversions and pages underperforming even before the drop in traffic. Rankings look gd in reports but they dont earn money if there is no conversion lol

vafiyog · 2026-10-12T17:41:47+0100

organic clicks, organic conversions (leads or sales), and click-through rate

rogueperry · 2026-10-12T18:03:55+0100

Risky_Spider said:
Quick question for SEO people. If you could track only 3 metrics for a website, which would you choose?

Traffic, rankings, backlinks, conversions, or something else?

And which SEO metric do you think people care about too much? Curious to hear your opinions.

as for me it were the pages going from page 2 into striking position, organic leads and returning searchers where traffic may appear healthy, yet the website has no one to convert lol

Take Action · 2026-10-12T18:06:09+0100

I would track qualified organic enquiries, impressions for the pages that actually matter and whether those pages stay indexed. Raw backlink counts are easy to inflate and tell you very little unless the linked page gains visibility and brings the right traffic.

sharifawan · 2026-10-12T18:26:54+0100

for a local business id swap one of those for calls. GBP shows calls and direction requests, and for a lot of trades thats where the leads are, the site barely gets touched.

so calls, direction requests, leads from the site.

overrated is DR. easy to inflate, tells you nothing about whether the phone rings.

what kind of site are you tracking?

Nexus agancy · 2026-10-12T18:53:10+0100

organic clicks, conversions and indexed pages. rankings and DR get way too much attention, they don't mean much if the traffic isn't converting

nicopixe · 2026-10-12T19:16:33+0100

Risky_Spider said:
Quick question for SEO people. If you could track only 3 metrics for a website, which would you choose?

Traffic, rankings, backlinks, conversions, or something else?

And which SEO metric do you think people care about too much? Curious to hear your opinions.

I would monitor non-brand clicks, lead or sales conversions and pages that are declining prior to crashing link numbers are way overrated because no one cares whether those links convert other than improving their DR.

91goals · 2026-10-12T19:36:21+0100

Organic conversions/revenue, GSC impressions+CTR, and non-brand clicks, n the metric ppl obsess over way too much is DA/DR, it’s a fkn vanity number 3rd-party tools made up that Google doesn’t even use, yet half the industry still treats it like gospe

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