Hi Shawn - I have been using your tool every day for months I am a trakaholic.... In the last few days the tools have shown some really different results. Some keywords are ranking lower in your tool and when I check them on Google the keywords are higher (thankfully). When I click on the indiviual keyword the rankings are also different? Any thoughts?
My only guess is data center flux. The keyword tracker definitely doesn't make up random results. Have you checked other data centers manually? - Shawn
Hi Shawn. I have checked other data centers and the results are still off. For Irish Wedding Rings for example the tool shows 17 and google shows 4 - datacenters show roughly between 5 and 7 Strange....
Ah... okay, I see what's going on... check #24 in the FAQ (it also has a link to fix it): http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/faq.html - Shawn
FYI FWIW irish_ladie: I have a very similar issue with the keyword "christmas lights" - I have two pages that rank around 11 and 19 (they move around a little bit from there). Sometimes the keyword tracker picks up #19 ... and then if the first keyword moves into the #10 spot, it won't notice it for exactly the reasons Shawn outlines in his FAQ. But then it will bounce back to #11, and then back to #19. So looks like a lotta movement, but it really isn't. If I could just stay in the top-10, this "problem" would go away! ;-) alek