GWT - Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools

[sunnyujjawal]

A GWT blog post says [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in ]:

After alerts for Crawl Errors Google now introduced Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools

The Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools shows, among other things, impressions and clicks for your top pages over time. For most sites, these numbers follow regular patterns, so when sudden spikes or drops occur, it can make sense to look into what caused them. Some changes are due to differing demand for your content, other times they may be due to technical issues that need to be resolved, such as broken redirects. For example, a steady stream of clicks which suddenly drops to zero is probably worth investigating.

[abhishekmishra]

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Google Announced at the Google Webmaster Central Blog Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools [[goo.gl ]]
In this update

The Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools shows, among other things, impressions and clicks for your top pages over time. For most sites, these numbers follow regular patterns, so when sudden spikes or drops occur, it can make sense to look into what caused them.

[indyank]

How useful is this when they are not providing any information for logged in searches (except perhaps for their adword customers) which is a considerably high percentage these days because of some evil tricks by google to keep people logged in? These tricks are evil IMO because majority of searchers wouldn't even notice it as they might not be so technical or might not be well informed on privacy concerns.