Position Explorer Chart allows you to chart search term positional data (including SERP features) and highlights multiple sites’ performance over time. The Position Explorer Chart is a timeline that uses Pi's Daily, Weekly, or Monthly positional data and can highlight multiple sites' performance for a single term or multiple search terms' performance across a single site, as well as give you the ability to analyse SERP features.
How does Position Explorer Chart work?
Position Explorer Chart allows you to ask data questions by loading positional data from the Workspace of search terms, these dimensions can be selected using the collapsable data form. You have the option to save insights from these data questions.
Position Explorer Chart can be found in the 'performance' drop-down in the navigation:
Data Source
Choose a Workspace and Search Engine from the drop-down.
Analysis Type: Site
The Site analysis type allows you to chart up to 12 search terms for a single Site.
Analysis type: Search Term
The Search term analysis type allows you to chart up to 12 sites performance for a single search term.
Include SERP Features
Position Explorer Chart will automatically show classic links. Include SERP features to show in the Position Explorer Chart. This allows you to get a view of the entire SERP landscape.
* Note: SERP Features are only available on Google Desktop and Mobile search engines. |
Positions Chart
This is an interactive chart that allows you to view the performance of Search Terms against a site or vice versa.
Use the colour legend to drill down on Search Terms, giving you a list of URL in the table below the chart.
Use the date picker to change the range of your data.
Use the Zoom options to show 1-10, 20, 50, and 100 positions on the chart.
Period Range
This shows the Search Term position metrics in table form.
Single Period
This view gives you data on a single date for each Search Terms selected as well as the top URL for that date. You can use the date picker to change date or click on the chart itself.
Returning URL
By clicking the colour legend or on the chart itself, you can drill into individual Search Terms. This shows you the returning URL for this Term against the chosen site.
The tables below the chart show the returning URL for the period range and show you the top 100 returning URL's for a single date.
From these charts, you can choose to select URL's to chart against the Search Term or open in Page Diagnostics
Save as insight
Found a success you’d like to share with the whole team? Need to bring something interesting to the right person’s attention? Save as insight lets you save your findings for yourself as a personal discovery or with other members of your team on the same workspace. You can find save as insight at the top of the tool.
Next Step Actions
If you see something of interest that you would like to analyse using some of our other tools, at the end of each row of the table is the actions column. Use these actions to be taken to our tools with your data preloaded and ready to view. This is a great way to navigate our tools without having to remember and input the data you want to view each time.
Depending on where you are in the Position Explorer Chart, the next step actions feature allows you to load data in the following tools:
Clicking on one of the action icons shown here will load the data of that row into the selected tool.
Explore the whole data set in the Position Explorer Table or SERP Matrix by selecting the icons at the top right of the chart
'Apply Selection to' actions
You can check a selection of data to view in our other tools by ticking the checkboxes and hovering over the "apply selection to" dropdown menu.
Action Required
If you see this symbol, it means an action is required before you can take the data to this tool. Clicking it will open a window that will allow you to make these changes before entering the tool.
Chart export options
The contents of the Position Explorer Chart can be downloaded as a CSV. The chart itself can be downloaded in PNG or SVG format:
