We published a candid teardown of our own site: four waves of technical and on-page work lifted impressions 5.6× while clicks moved from three to four. The analysis shows why — average position is a weighted mean that a widening long tail drags down, so it hid the fact that no query had reached the top three.
A method for reading search data honestly: position bands and per-page impressions instead of a single average, and a clear diagnosis that the remaining constraint was authority, not on-page work.
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