Google deletes your Search Console data after 16 months.
PebbleSEO keeps it. Forever. Every query, every page, every position, archived the month it happens and still there in five years.
Free during the pilot. No card. Your data stays yours.
The last 24 months
Deleted by Google
All Google keeps
What PebbleSEO holds
16 months, then gone
Google's Search Console holds 16 months of data on a rolling basis. Month 17 is deleted permanently. Not archived, not available on request, not recoverable by any tool that reads the same API.
Your rank tracker starts at zero
Every rank tracker begins the day you sign up. None of them can tell you where you ranked before that, because none of them were there.
The comparison you actually want is the one you cannot make
Year on year. Before and after the migration. What happened to that page in 2024. Those are the questions that matter, and they are the ones the data is missing for.
One archive, four sources, kept forever.
Everything you measure, held in one place and never rolled off.
Search Console, permanently
Import a month of Search Console data and it is yours for good. Clicks, impressions, CTR and impression weighted average position, by query, by page and by day. Google's 16 month window stops mattering the moment you start.
| Query | Clicks | Impr. | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|
| permanent seo archive | 1,284 | 42,110 | 3.4 |
| search console history | 946 | 31,502 | 5.1 |
| keep gsc data forever | 612 | 18,740 | 8.7 |
Bing as well as Google
Bing Webmaster Tools data sits alongside Google in the same charts. Some sites live on Bing and never know it, because nobody looks. One of the demo properties in PebbleSEO gets 920 clicks from Bing against 40 from Google.
AI search, if you want it
Connect your own OtterlyAI account and your AI citation data lands next to your search data. Which engines cite you, how often, and for which prompts. Your key, your quota, your data.
Keyword metrics from Semrush
Connect your own Semrush key and fill in volume, CPC, difficulty and intent for the keywords you track. It tells you the exact API cost before it spends a unit.
Three claims, and what each one means.
Unlimited retention
Not 12 months, not 24. Every month you import is kept until you delete it.
Impression weighted positions
Average position is calculated the way Google calculates it, weighted by impressions. A plain average across rows is wrong, and most tools do it anyway.
Your data, exportable
Every table exports to CSV, every chart to PNG. No lock in, because an archive you cannot get out of is not an archive.
Three steps, about ten minutes.
Add a property, import a month, and let the archive build itself.
- 01
Add your property
Name your site. That is the whole step.
- 02
Import a month
Export one calendar month from Search Console and drop the file in. Drop twelve at once if you like. PebbleSEO shows you which months you already hold and which are missing, so you always know what is left to fetch.
- 03
Never think about it again
Import each new month as it closes. The archive grows and nothing ever falls out of the back of it.
One thing you should know before you start.
An honest limitation, stated up front.
Google's export gives query data as a single lump for the whole period you export, with no dates attached. That means one calendar month per export if you want query level history, which is Google's constraint and not ours. Daily totals import from any range.
We could guess which month a query belongs to. We do not, because a guess in an archive is worse than a gap.
Who it is for
Built for the people who get asked what changed last year.
Agencies who need to show a client what changed over two years, not eight months.
In house SEOs who inherited a site with no history and do not want the next person to inherit the same problem.
Anyone mid migration, because the before is only worth having if you kept it.
Your data is being deleted right now.
Google's 16 month window is rolling forward as you read this. The earliest month you can still save is the one that disappears next.
Start archiving free