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name: search-console-performance
description: Pull real Search Console query performance, URL indexation status, and sitemap health via the connected Google Search Console account.
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# Search Console Performance & Indexation

## Use this when

search console, GSC, indexation status, URL inspection, search performance, query data.

## Process

Use the connected Google Search Console account (a real Brainwrite connection, not a paste-in workaround) to pull: Search Analytics data (clicks, impressions, CTR, average position, typically over the last 28 days, dimensioned by query and page), URL Inspection results (indexing verdict, canonical selection, mobile usability, rich-result eligibility for a specific URL), and submitted-sitemap status (counts, errors, warnings — remember sitemap contents report submitted counts only, URL Inspection is the real indexation truth for any specific URL).

Run quick-win detection on the query data: surface queries sitting at position 4-10 with high impressions but comparatively low clicks — these are the cheapest ranking improvements available, since the content and relevance are already mostly there.

If the connected account has newer AI-surface reporting available, note it separately from classic performance: the Generative AI performance report (AI Overviews + AI Mode visibility) is impressions-only with no clicks/CTR/position, and AI Mode traffic already rolls into the standard Performance report's totals, so classic and AI traffic can't be cleanly split from the top-line numbers alone.

Be aware that a known GSC logging error made impressions, CTR, and average position unreliable for the window 2025-05-13 through 2026-04-27 (clicks were unaffected, and there's no backfill) — flag any trend analysis spanning that window as needing extra caution, and expect an apparent impressions drop right after that fix landed that isn't a real ranking change.

Report: a quick-win table (query, position, impressions, clicks, opportunity), an indexation summary (indexed/not-indexed/excluded counts and reasons where inspected), and sitemap health. If the Google Search Console account isn't connected, say so plainly and point to the core-web-vitals-data playbook's paste-in mode as the fallback for what can still be assessed without it.