Google Search Console to show AI Mode performance

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Google has confirmed that you will be able to see AI Mode performance data in the Search Console performance reports but you won’t be able to break out that data individually to see how AI Mode is performing compared to web search or other Google surfaces.

Last week, Google rolled out AI Mode to all US searchers and when AI Mode launched in labs in March, Google told us then that since it was in Labs, it would not be reported in Search Console. Now that it is out of Labs, the data will come to Search Console.

What Google said. As I reported and also mentioned in my story on the future of SEO and search, John Mueller from Google confirmed on my LinkedIn post saying:

Al Mode reporting is not yet live in Search Console. We’re updating our documentation to reflect this will be showing soon as part of the Al Mode rollout.

He later added:

Hey, for sake of clarity because I worry you’re reading something different into this, the reporting is planned to be added to Search Console like we wrote here. There’s currently no separate break-out planned, and no API change involved. Stay tuned for more specifics – perhaps next week, but as always, we can’t promise specific timelines.

The updated help document to note this as well (I bolded some parts to emphasize them), saying:

Just like the rest of the search results page, sites appearing in AI features (such as AI Overviews and AI Mode) are included in the overall search traffic in Search Console. (Note: AI Mode reporting isn’t live in Search Console yet, but we expect this soon as part of the AI Mode rollout.) In particular, they’re reported on in the Performance report, within the “Web” search type. Learn more about how various Search features are counted towards the overall data in Search Console, how to analyze traffic changes overall, and how to combine Search Console and Analytics data.

AI Mode tracking. Earlier, there was a “bug” that impacted AI Mode being untrackable. Google is still working on fixing this bug. But for now, tracking AI Mode is almost impossible and we don’t have ways to fully see this in Search Console.

Ads. And you won’t be able to break out how your ads are performing with AI Overviews or AI Mode, even now that ads are live in AI Overviews and being tested in AI Mode. So much for all those mentions of “control and transparency” at Google Marketing Live.

Why we care. AI Mode is the future of search but for now, and the foreseeable future, you won’t be able to really track the performance of your organic and paid campaigns with AI Mode in Google Search.

We want to be able to see this data broken out in ads and organic and within Search Console’s performance reports, we would likely want it here:

We can continue to be loud about this and reach out to Google about wanting to be able to see this data.I know I’ve expressed my concern about this to the highest level at Google but right now, the answer is, this is not coming anytime soon.

Source: https://searchengineland.com/google...e-but-you-wont-be-able-to-break-it-out-455992

 

[Demon_skeith]

Guess its nice to show that kind of data, but I still don't like AI results.