NotebookBloom: What 559 Google impressions taught me about page-two SEO
My site’s first meaningful Search Console sample was small: 559 impressions, 7 clicks and a 1.25% CTR. The aggregate number was not very actionable. The page-level view was.
Three high-intent pages were already close enough to matter:
• NotebookLM → Zotero: 130 impressions, 5 clicks, 3.85% CTR, average position 16.48
• Cross-notebook search: 82 impressions, 0 clicks, position 17.18
• NotebookLM → Anki: 62 impressions, 0 clicks, position 16.4
These pages are not invisible. They are sitting on page two for queries that match actual product jobs. That changed my SEO plan from “publish more topics” to “finish the pages Google is already testing.”
The work included tightening titles and descriptions, matching the opening paragraph to the search job, adding a real workflow GIF, improving internal links, adding FAQ/article/video structured data, fixing canonical URL consistency and making each CTA specific to the page.
The rule I’m using now: before creating a new article, check whether an existing page at positions 11–20 can be made decisively better.
I’ll compare the next 28 days by page—not just total traffic—to see whether the changes move impressions into clicks.
