G Webmaster Incorrect Position Listings?

zippyants

zippyants

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Hi all.

Anyone had this issue with G webmaster? It is showing as position 1 for a keyword when it's far from reality! The keyword gets about 74k searches per month and I am certainly not no 1 for the KW. It's been showing for a week or so now and even when I do a private search I aint no 1!
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Yes you are correct, GSC doesn't give accurate keyword position.
 
Geasy said:
Yes you are correct, GSC doesn't give accurate keyword position.
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Okay thanks for that. Something I presumed anyway. Any way around it when using webmaster tools?
 
GSC is nothing but actually data from real queries. Just because you dont understand it, doesnt mean its wrong.
 
TayaX said:
GSC is nothing but actually data from real queries. Just because you dont understand it, doesnt mean its wrong.
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I never said it was wrong? I wanted to know why it would show position as 1 when it is not - even after a while.
 
You say 74k queries. But from the looks of it your URL is only appearing 105 times in a week?

The average position for those 105 impressions may indeed be 1.

May be a particular locale perhaps - you need to find out who it is appearing #1 for , and then figure out why it isnt ranking for the audience your ranking for and inparticular only get 105 impressions from 74k queries,

I can't see all the data you see but im not sure you're reading it right.
 
TayaX said:
GSC is nothing but actually data from real queries. Just because you dont understand it, doesnt mean its wrong.
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So you understand the keyword position it gives?
 
You should manually check positions in a web browser. GSC may not necessarily be correct. Sometimes the new posts are instantly given good SERPs and the ranking slowly falls. I guess you've reached position 1 when you posted but the post faded away. So, GSC might be showing the average position as 1.
 
Danielharper said:
You say 74k queries. But from the looks of it your URL is only appearing 105 times in a week?

The average position for those 105 impressions may indeed be 1.

May be a particular locale perhaps - you need to find out who it is appearing #1 for , and then figure out why it isnt ranking for the audience your ranking for and inparticular only get 105 impressions from 74k queries,

I can't see all the data you see but im not sure you're reading it right.
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Geasy said:
So you understand the keyword position it gives?
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@Danielharper summarized it right. We don’t have the access to dig deep down to understand the data.

Pavan Teja 1 said:
You should manually check positions in a web browser. GSC may not necessarily be correct. Sometimes the new posts are instantly given good SERPs and the ranking slowly falls. I guess you've reached position 1 when you posted but the post faded away. So, GSC might be showing the average position as 1.
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That’s 100% innacurate. GSC is always correct. It fetches data based from the actual results.
 
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