Glossary ยท Off-site

Zero-click search.

A search answered on the results page itself, so nobody clicks through to any site.

Why it matters.

A growing share of searches end this way, and for local businesses that is not automatically bad: a map pack result where someone taps your phone number is a zero-click search that produced a customer. What it does mean is that ranking measured in positions and traffic measured in sessions both understate what the listing is doing.

How to check it yourself.

Compare calls received with sessions recorded for the same month. If calls are high and sessions are flat, your listing is working and your analytics cannot see it.

Questions

The usual questions.

How do I check zero-click search on my own site?

Compare calls received with sessions recorded for the same month. If calls are high and sessions are flat, your listing is working and your analytics cannot see it.

Your turn

Same check,
run on your site.

The check behind this page is the one we ran on every business above. Put your own address in and it will load your site on a phone screen, look at the certificate and the page age, and tell you what a visitor meets. No email, nothing stored.

Check my website free Read the full GTA report

Worth a
conversation?

No pitch deck and no discovery call. Tell us the trade and the city, and we will say what we would do and what it costs.

Start a project See our work