{"id":1400,"date":"2012-01-27T03:17:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T07:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2012-06-21T02:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T06:34:52","slug":"average-search-position-metric-recalculated-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/average-search-position-metric-recalculated-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Search Position Metric Recalculated by Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been changes made on how Google calculates average position metric.In an attempt to provide more accuracy to the rankings,the way of calculating average position in Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Queries and Google Analytics has undergone some changes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sample Google has put forward to understand about the changes it has made to average ranking position of pages in a site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say Adam searched for [blue berries] and URLs from your site appeared in positions 3, 6, and 12. Richard also searched for [blue berries] and URLs from your site appeared in positions 5 and 9. Previously, we would have averaged all these positions together and shown an Average Position of 7. Going forward, we\u2019ll only average the highest position your site appeared in for each search (3 for Adam\u2019s search and 5 for Richard\u2019s search), for an Average Position of 4.\u201d There won&#8217;t be any changes made to historical data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been changes made on how Google calculates average position metric.In an attempt to provide more accuracy to the rankings,the way of calculating average position in Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Queries and Google Analytics has undergone some changes. This is a sample Google has put forward to understand about the changes it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[207,206],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","tag-analytics","tag-search-metrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}