The difference with the above is that the data is also coming from an ‘Unknown Region’ and also from Turkey. This is the same for the other properties I have access to that had the filter triggered. In the above screenshot from GSC, you can see that the vast majority of the impressions are coming from India. Google Search Console ‘translated results’ data by country, showing 3 different regions where data has been collected (with a category showing as an ‘Unknown Region’). As a note, you should only ever see the device type as ‘mobile’ within the device type tab at this time. This includes the query (most important), the page, the country data, and device type. Similar to situations where you may receive a spike in impressions and need to do forensic work to discover the source, only to find out that a Twitter carousel is the culprit.Īlongside the Search Appearance tab, we have various bits of data available to us. In the case of the ‘translated results’ Search Appearance filter, this is like other situations where reverse engineering as a skill is required. Reverse engineering when ‘translated results’ is triggeredĪn important part of the skillset of an SEO professional is the ability to reverse engineer when data is presented within Google Search Console and understanding the source of the data. Google rarely expands upon their Search Appearance filters, with the last time this happened being earlier this year with ‘product results’, seeing data for price approximations (without Schema usage) appear in GSC properties within the US on both mobile and desktop. It is only when the user clicks the actual snippet that has been translated to English that a click will be recorded. Clicks and impressions will be getting measured the same as they always have been.įor instance, if a user clicks the drop-down that is part of the snippet on mobile, this would count as an impression in the Search Appearance filter for ‘translated results’. Google translate to translate the title link and snippet to English within Google’s mobile search results.Īs a visualisation, the above shows a situation for how the data can appear within Google Search Console. So what is actually happening on Google when the filter is triggered within GSC? The best explanation of this can be seen in the following image supplied by Google within their documentation. The site in my screenshot above is from quite a large site (international/translated in various languages), so it makes sense that more data is starting to come in there. I’m also seeing other properties within my Google Search Console account that have started recording data as of the 10th of May, which is just a trickle of impressions. As you can see in the feature image for this post, the earliest data point that I have dates back to the 2nd of May when recordings first started. Google looks to have started showing the ‘translated results’ Search Appearance filter sometime within early May of 2022. The ‘Translated Results’ Search Appearance Filter In my post, I will be detailing what I’m seeing so far in Google Search Console with the ‘translated results’ filter now appearing across several properties that I have access to, along with what is actually happening once triggered within Search Appearance. Google’s documentation explains that the filter is for “search results in a language different from the query language, from selected sources”. ‘Translated results’ now joins various other Search Appearance filters, such as for Product results, Web Story, Good page experience, among others. The filter relates to situations where Google has translated the title link and snippet for a web page within Search.Īccording to Google’s documentation for translated results, the feature is currently available in certain languages (such as Indonesian, Hindi, Tamil, and more), and is only triggered on mobile.Īlthough the announcement of the feature came about in November of 2021, it was only at the end of April of 2022 that Google added details on monitoring performance in Google Search Console, with the addition of a new Search Appearance filter. Reverse engineering when ‘translated results’ is triggeredĪ new Search Appearance filter has surfaced in Google Search Console this month title ‘translated results’. The ‘Translated Results’ Search Appearance Filter.
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