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How far back does my data go?

Google Search Console itself only retains the most recent 16 months of data. Anything older drops off Google's side and cannot be recovered, even with API access - this is a hard limit Google enforces on every Search Console user, including direct users of the official Google Search Console UI.

GSC PAP solves this with the Personal Archive feature. After you sign in, you can trigger a one-time backfill from /account/archive that pulls your entire 16-month native window into our database. From then on, our daily cron job fetches yesterday's data automatically (4 days behind today, because Google's analytics data takes 3-4 days to stabilize). Your archive grows day by day forever, with no cap on age.

When your AI assistant queries via the search_analytics_query MCP tool, we automatically serve from the archive when the query covers stable past data (older than 3 days) and from the live Google API for recent or unstable data. This means zero quota cost for historical queries, and you can ask questions like "show me query trends over the last 24 months" - far beyond what Google's UI allows.

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