Topic preview results vs actual results

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Posted on by RichyRich

Hopefully this is an easy one to answer to help out an MSE newbie....

When I setup my topics and preview the results, I see several excellent and very relevant matches, however when I save and go back to the main Analytics page, those specific results are nowhere to be found in the stats or the posts within them, in fact the results overall are much poorer/fewer.

I've checked that the date I'm looking at (today) includes the article date and I have no other filters applied. What am I missing?

I get that the preview when defining a topic may not show the exact same results but surely if there's a clearly matching article from today and it comes from a built-in source in my preview, it should be there in my analytics results, right?

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Ian Nicholls 4,157 on at

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RE: Topic preview results vs actual results

Hi,

the topic preview will pull posts from the past month as this is gauging what will happen based on your quota. Have you tried changing the date period to custom on the analytics screen and selecting for the past month? Also have creating a search topic it can take 2 -3 hours for data to start being gathered and appear on SE.
RichyRich 35 on at

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RE: Topic preview results vs actual results

Could it be there's a delay? I assumed since the preview is immediate, the main results would be immediate?