Case StudyNovember 5, 2026 · 3 min read

Financialist.com: 459 Clicks in 40 Days from Google Search

Financialist.com is one of our own sites. This case study shows its SEO traffic — straight from Google Search Console, data through November 3, 2026 — and nothing else. The headline: 459 clicks and 75,413 impressions. The property has only 40 days of data (September 25 – November 3, 2026), so the 12-month and 90-day windows show the same numbers. The shape: flat near zero until October 23, then a steep climb — peak day October 28: 68 clicks and 10,287 impressions. The trend is rising.

The totals

459
Clicks · Sep 25 – Nov 3, 2026
75,413
Impressions · Sep 25 – Nov 3, 2026
0.6%
Average CTR
34.2
Average position

These are the only 40 days of data that exist for this property. The 12-month and 90-day windows in Search Console return the same totals, because there is no earlier data to include.

The shape: flat, then a steep climb

The site sat flat near zero from September 25 to October 22 — mostly 0–7 clicks a day — then climbed steeply from October 23 to October 28. The biggest day on both clicks and impressions was October 28: 68 clicks and 10,287 impressions. The days after stayed high: October 29 (62 clicks), November 3 (51 clicks), October 30 (48 clicks), November 2 (46 clicks). The trend is rising.

Daily clicks — the climb, Oct 27 to Nov 3 (verified days only)
31Oct 2768PEAKOct 2862Oct 2948Oct 3046Nov 251Nov 3

Each bar is one verified day from Google Search Console. October 31 and November 1 have no verified daily values in this pull, so no bars are shown for them. The flat period before October 23 (mostly 0–7 clicks a day) is stated in the text above, not plotted — there are no verified daily values to plot for it. Source: Google Search Console, data through Nov 3, 2026.

The verified data points

DateClicksImpressions
Oct 27, 2026316,964
Oct 28, 20266810,287
Oct 29, 2026626,146
Oct 30, 2026485,379
Nov 2, 2026464,815
Nov 3, 2026514,328

No other daily values are plotted or implied anywhere on this page.

Top queries

The searches that sent the most clicks over the 40 days:

  1. “darren caris” — 6 clicks / 115 impressions
  2. “financialist” — 3 clicks / 203 impressions
  3. “john dicconson” — 3 clicks / 9 impressions
  4. “verdant resource partners” — 2 clicks / 41 impressions
  5. “stephanie laugier” — 2 clicks / 14 impressions

Top pages

The pages that earned the most clicks over the 40 days:

  1. /news/leadership/ardent-health-terminates-ceo-martin-bonick-for-cause-000110 — 17 clicks / 184 impressions
  2. /news/leadership/ab-commercial-real-estate-fund-announces-leadership-changes — 10 clicks / 80 impressions
  3. /news/consumer/smith-james-amends-stock-ownership-filing-for-sears-hometown-000215975226000008 — 8 clicks / 78 impressions
  4. /news/capital/verdant-resource-partners-seeks-7-26-million-for-acquisition-000216188526000001/ — 7 clicks / 58 impressions
  5. /news/sec-charges-encinitas-adviser-darren-caris-cherry-picking-clients-october-2026 — 6 clicks / 175 impressions

Source: Google Search Console, financialist.com Domain property, data through November 3, 2026. Every number on this page comes from that pull. Nothing else is shown — no backlink counts, no rankings claims, no other metrics.

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