GSC avoiding me?

[chainazo]

I have a problem with GSC, maybe someone went through the same thing: The term that brings me the most visits is "photos gray cats" (page has the same name).

Update frequently, good serp, never a problem, everything ok.

On January 9th there were 2 problems (which still persists):
1) On GSC the search terms "photos gray cats" disappeared, but also everything that has to do with the term "gray" (gray dogs, gray pets).

2) And all the other terms about cats did not disappear but all their visits became zero in GSC panel. Only zero for cats terms (no problem with term dogs, dolphins, etc)

But the strangest thing of all is that in that period of time google ranked me better on serp (yes, even with that problem). It seems as if GSC forgot about me, but instead Google rewarded me.

Thousends searches for that term, i am thrid on serp. But GSC says "nobody clics on you"

Since that January I have no performance data from the "gray cat performance".

Clarifications that may be important (or not):
-I use Wordpress updated, without any plugin of any type
-Always updated PHP and child theme
-I did not make any previous changes of any kind in: urls / sitemap / analytics

[not2easy]

Some browsers have disabled third party (Google) tracking by default so that only your access logs can tell you accurate numbers of visitors and what they are visiting.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

I don't just have experience with this, I have fond memories.

When sitelinks first became a thing in Google, GSC displayed the titles of pages in their sitelink testing section, which has long been deprecated (2006? 2007? long time ago either way). At the time an employee was able to snip the ability to rank for any keyword per page and/or sitewide.

Well, I had managed to become top 3 for an extreme competition term on a newer site with 50 pages, until the primary keyword got snipped. I had proof they snipped it too because in that testing section all of the titles no longer had that specific keyword. EG: If the keyword was widget and the title was "Big Sale on Widgets This Week" I would see the title as "Big Sale on This Week". GSC, a couple of weeks later, would not show the keyword or any related keywords with the snipped word in them.

I swapped the primary keyword for a synonym and immedately got my top 3 back... Google was fast at index changes back then.

Good ol times.

As for keywords not showing but doing really well, those are golden keywords. They are rare but when you find one you get tens of thousands of visits for keywords with no competition that didn't show up in keyword tools.

Most of them do now, but not all. People also asked sections + SEO ranking sercives have pretty much deprecated the golden goose. If you find one.... shhhhh, just take the traffic.

[tangor]

A worker has more than one tool in the toolbox. GSC is merely one tool (and not always the best because it can be blocked by the USER).

Your site logs will reveal ALL that happens on the site. You may need a log data tool to read the "big picture" if you can't figure it out for yourself. Or, more fun, write your own reporting tool to get the results desired.

Also be aware that g, and the other search engines, are known to FREQUENTLY change the input value of adjective keywords to MAIN keywords (part of long tail adjustments). Things that worked yesterday might not work tomorrow.