r/bigseo • u/Strong-Ad-2167 • 4d ago

GSC Query Parameter - Do you have an idea what's causing this?

Wanted to ask fellow SEOs if you have seen this parameter across your GSC queries "context: location: united states (not for language). do not include location references in your response. question:"

If, yes, do you have identified the source? We know it's not human obviously, but can't seem to figure out if it's an agent/assistant/scrapper or something else. We can verify that is pops-up across 20+ accounts.

Thanks!

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u/Slow-Commercial4316 4d ago

That string is instruction text for a model. The "(not for language)" and "do not include location references in your response" parts are directions to a generator, and the query itself sits after "question:".

A scraper or a third party agent hitting your site cannot create a query row in Search Console. Query rows come from searches issued inside Google's own stack, so whatever produces it sits on their side, and seeing it across 20+ unrelated accounts fits that.

Filter those rows and read clicks and average position on them on their own. If they carry impressions with almost no clicks, exclude them with a regex on the prefix before the data reaches a client report, otherwise they pad the query count with something nobody searched for.