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This is unbelievable - anyone got any idea whats going on?

Discussion in 'Google' started by TG2006, Oct 20, 2008.

  1. #1
    This has got me totally stumped, I have no explanation for this.

    I have a website where Im ranked well in Google for lots of long tail keywords. Each day I type random keyword phrases into Google to check to see where Im ranked.

    Then I check my live website stats and notice I see the phrase I typed appear right after I typed it into Google.

    Note: I never EVER click on my website in the Google results. I simply note its position. I click on nothing! Im not seeing my own searches as google referrals as Im not clicking anything.

    The keyphrases I type are long tail 4 or 5 keywords and are totally at random yet right after I check my position for these keywords someone online makes a google search for that keyword phrase. Its ridiculous!

    How can this be? It cant be coincidence as the odds are literally billions to one.

    :confused:
     
    TG2006, Oct 20, 2008 IP
  2. bruce-banner

    bruce-banner Greenhorn

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    #2
    Be sure to sign out and clean cookies before you search or use another browser to do the searches. Hope it helps.
     
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  3. TG2006

    TG2006 Guest

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    #3
    These searches are from other people using different googles. The odds are billions to one
     
    TG2006, Oct 20, 2008 IP
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    SearchBliss Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Well I have no answer for this...very odd.
     
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    Loget Peon

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    God is punishing you.
     
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    Drreynolds Banned

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    :eek: really strange thing i ever came across...looking for someone to post reason for this:)
     
    Drreynolds, Oct 20, 2008 IP
  7. mystikmedia

    mystikmedia Jedi Master

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    Could it be a prefetching extension you're using in your browser, perhaps?
     
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    pluto1 Peon

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    #8
    Rather than checking your website position live on google, why don't you use a position finder tool to see where you stand in search engines. Try this, and do not search live. You will be able to see the actual results. Good Luck!
     
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  9. sweetfunny

    sweetfunny Banned

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    #9
    You are mad using online tools like that and manually punching everything in each time, download Free Monitor for Google and store it all. Then it's just 1 push of the button to check all your keywords, and even tells you how many spots your have risen/fallen etc.

    But as mystikmedia said, your browser is probably prefetching the URL's on the page.
     
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    SoulfulDude Peon

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    What live stats software? And in what section? It may just be displaying the keyword phrases for which your site has made a page impression in which case this is normal and expected behaviour.
     
    SoulfulDude, Oct 20, 2008 IP
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    monfis Well-Known Member

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    Well sweet funny, I have been addicted to the free monitor for google since years (with soap api), but lately I am observing more wrong results coming up. Think it has to do with G. api politics.

    The other issue (someone does the same search and just when he did it - I suspect it's the "mismissimo" googlebot which does that.
     
    monfis, Oct 20, 2008 IP
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    gregdavidson Well-Known Member

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    What stats service are you using?
     
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    sweetfunny Banned

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    #13
    Yeah it's a great tool, your accuracy problem is due to the soap api because that pulls results from a different DC then what you are seeing. If you drop the API and run a normal check the results will be correct, because it will fetch the results from the closest DC just like if you done a search manually.
     
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    dimmakherbs Active Member

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    google always logs key phrases and how you appear in them. If you do a search and you turned up in the 2nd spot, your google tools would tell you that even if you didn't click on it
     
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    #15
    Are you using Chrome?

    The pre-fetch option is on buy default. So, it is getting all pages that linked to on the results page.

    It doesn't display them to you until you click, but it gets them nonetheless.

    /*tom*/
     
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    never herd of anything like this before, may be its the google crawler;)
     
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    Your response got me laughing so hard. It makes you sound like my doctor but the only difference is that you're talking about the Google search engine. Is Dr. Google in the house?

     
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  19. TG2006

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    It seems to have stopped (at least for now). I was looking at CPanels latest visitor stats (last 300 visits)

    I only use Firefox. Some of the searches were from people using IE and the referrals were from different Googles eg Australia, UK. Real people searching using long tail keyphrases I only typed into Google.
     
    TG2006, Oct 24, 2008 IP
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    #20
    You have a DEVIL behind! (just kidding)
    I could only say that might have been a rare coincidence!
     
    krishmk, Oct 24, 2008 IP