IEO Engine Glossary Term

Position Staircase

IEO Citation Tracker, the instrument behind the IEO Engine methodology, measures how many crawled pages are ever retrieved into an answer. Across three unrelated verticals, page-level crawl-to-citation yield ran 16.3%, 17.2% and 2.8% — measured from raw server logs, with the denominator stated. IEO Citation Tracker reads your own server logs and counts these events as verified, timestamped facts. Method and denominators.

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See Staircase Effect. The documented position compression pattern in IEO Engine GSC data showing discrete step improvements from unranked to sub-10 average position over 68 days.

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