Google explains why irrelevant keywords might display up in a website’s Search Console report.
Google’s John Mueller reveals why a website would possibly present up for keywords that seem unusual or not related to what the site is about.
Mueller shared this report on Reddit in response to a thread titled-
“My website has clicks from keywords that I can’t find my site using them. How is this possible?”
The primary poster of the thread is puzzled by keywords showing up in their Search Console report. When analyzing to find their own site using the same keywords, they’re incompetent to find it even after 10 pages of search results. They can’t understand why their site is displaying up for those keywords. What could be the problem?
Google’s John Mueller On Ranking For Random Keywords
If a site is displaying up for unexpected questions, and the results can’t be simply replicated, the most likely reasons are either personalization and/or local targeting.
“Usually that’s personalization & local targeting. Often you can guess if the queries are expected to have a large number of impressions and if your site is listed as being in the higher positions, but it just gets very few impressions. You also see this when you drill in by date and see that it’s just getting very few impressions sporadically (rather than regularly).”
Mueller announces that images are another reason this could be occurring.
The site’s images may be getting picked into the one-boxes that resemble at the top of search results, or the information panels that appear on the side.
When an image is shown in a one-box it goes logged as an impression in Search Console. If an odd keyword has a huge number of impressions, a high ranking position, and few clicks, then images are likely why the site is ranking for those queries.
“Another option is from images. Some queries sometimes show image one-boxes (where you have a bunch of images towards the top of the results), and if an image from your pages is shown there, you’d see that as an impression in Search Console (similarly if the image is shown in the knowledge panel part on the side). I suspect not a lot of these images get clicks, so it can appear that you have a large number of impressions, a high position, but few clicks for those queries.”
Lastly, Mueller supports taking a different approach to analyzing the data in Search Console to observe out where the impressions are getting from.
Recognize the country of origin, then adjust Google’s advanced search settings to display results from that country. Now you’ll have a more intimate representation of what users are viewing.
“When trying these out, make sure to drill down in the report to the appropriate country version, and use the appropriate advanced search setting for that country, so that you’re as close to what users see as you can.”
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