Dashboard — Query Discovery
Detects brand-new search queries that started appearing in GSC this month and flags the ones trending up this week.
What is it?
The Query Discovery section has two panels. New This Month lists queries that didn't exist in GSC last month but do now — early signals of emerging demand. Trending This Week lists queries whose impressions grew fastest in the last seven days — existing topics gaining steam. Both use GSC history snapshots taken daily.
When should I use it?
- You want to stay ahead of trends instead of chasing keywords that are already saturated.
- You just launched a new product or service and want to see which searches it's surfacing for.
- You need content ideas that are still uncontested — new queries usually mean new opportunities.
How to use it
- Expand the Query Discovery collapsible. It's closed by default.
- Scan New This Month for relevant themes. Click any query to open the Opportunity Finder filtered to it.
- Scan Trending This Week for momentum. Queries with steep growth are often the leading edge of a seasonal or news-driven wave.
- Use the ⚙ Settings icon (top right of the section) to adjust how many queries each panel shows and what thresholds define "new" vs "trending".
- Click Save Snapshot Now if you want to force a history snapshot instead of waiting for the daily job.
Tips and best practices
- New queries often mean new product interest or a new angle on an existing topic. Write while the SERP is still forming.
- Trending queries are a better fit for quick-turnaround content than pillar pieces — the trend may fade in weeks.
- Combine with Personas — see which persona would care about the emerging query before committing.
Gotchas and limits
- Requires at least two monthly snapshots in GSC history for "new" detection to work. Brand-new GSC connections need a month of data.
- Query Discovery is GSC-only for now. Bing queries don't feed into it.
- A query that appears in GSC but has very low impressions (<5) is excluded — too noisy to be signal.
- Snapshots are client-scoped. Switching clients resets what you see.