Impressions went up. Nobody new clicked.
This year impression counts started running away from everything else we measure.
On one healthy account this summer, impressions were up a lot. Clicks were up 9% year over year. Organic traffic was up 41% year to date and key events had doubled.
The impressions number was the one we didn't trust.
Why
Impressions count every time a result appears — including in AI Mode, answer panels, and pages deep in results nobody scrolls to. As Google's results page changed, the count inflated without more humans seeing you.
What to report instead
- Clicks — people chose you
- Organic sessions and conversions — they did something
- Impressions only as a direction, never as the headline
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