Seasonality
Predictable variation in search demand across the year, week or day, which must be controlled for before attributing changes to SEO work.
BusinessTraffic forecasting
SEO forecasting
Projecting future organic performance from current rankings, expected position changes, demand trends and seasonality, usually as a range rather than a point estimate.
In full
Sound forecasts start from a baseline time-series decomposition of trend and seasonality, then layer opportunity: which keywords could realistically move, to what position, with what CTR at that position given the SERP's feature composition. The largest errors come from assuming static CTR curves and ignoring SERP changes such as AI Overviews. Presenting scenarios with stated assumptions is more useful, and more honest, than a single number.
Example
A forecast presents conservative, expected and optimistic cases with explicit assumptions about CTR compression from AI features.
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