Debug Log #6: I Requested Indexing on 17 Pages. Here's What the Daily Data Actually Shows.
For nine days in a row -- September 11th through the 19th -- I told the reader checking in on this blog that Search Console's average position was "improving." 38.5, then 26.7, then 22.2, then 18.2, then 12.8. Every single day I reported it as a real trend. It wasn't one. Pulling the actual day-by-day data instead of the rolling 28-day summary shows something much smaller and much less dramatic than the number I'd been narrating. What the raw daily numbers actually show This blog got exactly six days with any search impressions at all between August 25th and September 26th. Every other day in that 33-day window: zero. Not "low" -- zero, no data at all. The six real days: Date Impressions Position that day Aug 29 1 11.0 Aug 31 1 66.0 Sep 3 1 3.0 Sep 5 1 9.0 Sep 6 2 10.0 Sep 7 4 4.8 The mistake, stated plainly The "improving average position" I reported for over a week wasn't new visibility appearing. It was the same six-day burst f...