Reminder: Google Search Console Does Not Backfill Data

Feb 4, 2021 - 7:11 am 0 by

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This is just a reminder that if you verify a new website in Google or your old website loses its verification for a period of time, the data where the site is not verified will likely be missing. Google's John Mueller recently reminded us of this on Twitter.

John said "If a site loses verification for a longer period of time, we don't collect the data for Search Console, and we don't back-fill it afterwards. So this is, unfortunately, probably not going to show up."

Here was the original question:

Here is John's response:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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