{"id":337,"date":"2025-03-17T19:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sitecurve.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:45:07","slug":"google-visibility-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sitecurve.com\/google-visibility-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Visibility Index: Measuring and Adapting to Google’s Growing SERP Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve been in SEO long enough, you’ve experienced this moment: Traffic to a high-ranking page suddenly drops, but your rankings haven’t changed. You’re still in position #1, but somehow getting fewer clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened? Google happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my years as a VP of SEO and as an independent operator building and selling SEO-driven businesses, I’ve watched Google steadily increase its presence in search results through featured snippets, knowledge panels, “People Also Ask” boxes, and dozens of other SERP features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These widgets don’t just change the appearance of search results\u2014they fundamentally alter user behavior and can dramatically impact your traffic, even when your rankings remain stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why we built the Google Visibility Index at SiteCurve\u2014to quantify exactly how much Google is encroaching on your keywords and to help you develop strategies to adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Invisible Traffic Thief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For years, SEO professionals have been flying blind when it comes to measuring Google’s impact on their search visibility. We knew Google widgets were appearing more frequently, but we lacked concrete data on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n