Any issues with Google impressions dropping in Webmaster Tools?
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I'm seeing a drop in impressions across all my websites that are hosted at a certain location. Just wanted to make sure that it is not some reporting issue that others are seeing.
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We are not running any ad on our website. event then our impressions and clicks has dropped.
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Looks like Google fixed the issue. All my sites impressions are back up.
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All 9 of my sites quit reporting on Feb 6 and I really need to see impressions as my site just went to number 1 for my main keyword!
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I'm finally starting to see people talking about this issue on other forums. One poster indicated that it is a Google glitch and that they are aware of it and working on a fix. This happens from time to time. If you may recall, over a year ago Links to Site in GWT dropped overnight. That too was a Google reporting error.
Always good to know it is them and not us. Now back to work, with less worry.
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Yes I'm seeing this as well on Feb 6th. It hasn't updated since then but both impressions and clicks dropped substantially. Like you I didn't see any issues with rankings.
Matt
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Rob, thanks for your input.
Previous to posting my question, I checked traffic, visits, indexing and rankings. Everything looked normal. I did some checking of some sites I have hosted somewhere else (Not the same as my main sites), and the impressions look normal.
I'm suspecting that there might be an issue with the hosting location, or Google just has a glitch with our impressions reporting for this particular login. Bottom line my traffic and rankings are okay, so I'll wait and see if Google corrects the problem.
Thanks for your input!
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I would take some time and check your other traffic and analytics sources. Ensure that everything is still up. Even take a few minutes to manually verify some of your known KW rankings. See if the site has plummeted or dropped severely. There would be some correlation between that and the impressions loss with GWMT. The overall algorithm might have some impact on any losses attained that you saw so take some time to look over the data..
I would be safe to assume if you don't see any major problems anywhere else in your research that things are find and Google has just had a glitch in reporting, which engineers are probably already working on
Might help you start identify the source of the issue on the site.
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