Introduction
In the Brand Query widget of the Apparently, the aggregate of Branded and NonBranded should be equal to All_Queries
Google search console data representation has its own limitations that can be seen here. Some of the highlights are as follows
To protect user privacy, Search Analytics doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information.
Some processing of our source data might cause these stats to differ from stats listed in other sources (for example, to eliminate duplicates and visits from robots). However, these changes should not be significant.
Therefore, the results of brand queries are not equivalent to the overall results. As overall results provide an aggregate of all queries while brand queries (branded and non branded) reflect the aggregate of tracked queries and omit the performance (clicks, impressions, CTR, position) of untracked queries. In the dashboard, the following scheme is used while presenting different visualizations.
Overall Results
All Features + All Queries
Specific Feature
Feature +All Queries
Specific Feature Brand Query (Branded/NonBranded)
Feature + set of tracked queries
Overall Brand Query (Branded/NonBranded)
AllFeatures + set of tracked queries
The users of the dashboard don’t need to memorize or handle the above information while extracting and filtering the information. The above information and the following example is provided to clarify the gap between different data segments.
Example:
This example illustrates the possible data gaps for filter “Brand Query” as shown in Figure 1. In this filter, three options can be seen such as All_Queries, Branded and NonBranded. Apparently, the aggregate of Branded and NonBranded should be equal to All_Queries which is not applicable due to the reason given above. In Figure 2, Figure 3 and Figure 4, performance of Branded, NonBranded and All_Queries is illustrated respectively.
Figure 1: Brand query filter in the dashboard
Figure 2: Branded query filter in the dashboard
Figure 3: NonBranded query filter in the dashboard
Figure 4: All_Queries query filter in the dashboard
It can be clearly inferred from the above figures that data gaps exist between various filter types as shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Summary of data gaps for brand query filter
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