v0.0.12: Google Search Console & the Search-to-AI Gap

Search Console

Google Search Console, on every plan

A new Search page shows clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position for your verified property, with your top queries. The tracking Google search performance tutorial walks through connecting and reading it. Connecting backfills up to sixteen months of daily history immediately, plus query-level detail for the last quarter, so the page has something to show on day one. It is available on every plan, including Free. Average position is weighted by impressions, and because Google withholds low-volume queries entirely, the share of your traffic the query table can account for is reported rather than hidden.

Ranked but not cited, cited but not ranking

Your Search Console queries are matched to your scanned prompts, and the disagreements are surfaced two ways: pages that sit on Google’s first page while no AI engine mentions you, and prompts where engines mention you but Google does not rank you. Each row shows the query and prompt it matched on, so you can judge the match. Queries with no matching prompt are counted as coverage, not asserted as findings: nobody asked the engines about them.

Page-level citation comparison

A sharper version compares the pages Google ranks against the pages engines actually linked to. It works only on search-grounded scans: an ungrounded answer yields a domain extracted from prose rather than a link, so when no citation carries a URL the comparison reports that it needs grounding rather than marking every ranking page as uncited.

Pick your Search Console property

Settings lists the properties your connected Google account can access, filtered to the ones that will return data, so binding one is a choice from a list.

Billing

Annual billing (staged rollout)

A note on the prices. This entry describes annual billing as it shipped then, at the list prices of the time. Today’s figures are on the pricing page. The 15% annual discount is unchanged.

The machinery for billing Business and Agency annually at a discount to the monthly rate is in: a Monthly/Annual selector on the pricing page, carried through checkout and the billing screen. It is behind a flag and rolling out gradually, so the selector appears only once annual pricing is enabled for your account. Until then, those pages show monthly rates only. The discount is a uniform 15% across both paid plans: an effective $25.49/mo on Business and $169.99/mo on Agency when billed annually.