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# Search Appearance Trend, Google Search Console

> Plots how your organic impressions across special search-feature types move over the selected period. How to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it.

**Card class:** [Non-Hero](/nerve-centre/overview#card-classes-explained)  •  **Category:** [Search Appearance](/nerve-centre/connectors#connectors-by-type)

## 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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/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.

## 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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/impressions-trend) to separate a feature-specific shift from a whole-property movement.

## 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.

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