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Card class: Non-Hero • Category: Search Appearance

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At a glance

Search Appearance Trend charts how your presence in special search features (videos, FAQ, product snippets, review snippets, plain web listings and the rest) rises and falls over the selected period. Where Search Appearance Types gives you a snapshot share, this card gives you the direction of travel, so you can see a rich-result type gaining or losing ground over time.

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What it tracks

This card reads the Search Console Performance report’s Search Appearance dimension over time and plots a line per appearance type for the selected period. The detail source is “Search Appearance Trend for the selected period.” Each line tracks the impressions (and, where surfaced, clicks) attributed to a given appearance type, for example Videos, FAQ, Product snippets, Merchant listings or Web. A rising line for a feature you recently marked up confirms the structured data is taking hold; a falling line can signal lost eligibility (a rich-result error, a Google feature change, or content that no longer qualifies), which is worth tracing to Rich Results Errors. Because the Search Appearance dimension only registers results that genuinely appeared in a feature, a sudden drop to zero for a previously healthy type usually means a real eligibility or markup regression rather than a measurement gap. Read it alongside Impressions Trend to separate a feature-specific shift from a whole-property movement.

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Reconciling against the source

Confirm in Search Console → Performance → Search results with the Search Appearance filter applied and the date range matched, where the chart shows the same per-type movement over time. Remember that Search Console data is typically 2 to 3 days delayed, rare queries are anonymised, and tables cap at 1,000 rows, so the most recent days on the trend may still be settling and very long-tail types can differ slightly from the API-backed figures shown here.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Search Appearance Trend is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Google Search Console and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.