Ive been using this tool for about 4 months now , at first teh results were pretty much 90% accurate. Recently , for the past 6-8 weeks i am getting inaccurate results, not just inaccurate by a couple places (which doesnt really matter) but im getting keyword tracker telling me that i rank 2nd for a KW when in fact i rank in 30's. Now 80-90% of the keywords i'm tracking are completly wrong? Anyone else having this problem? Its been ongoing for ages , just doesnt seem to work for me!
I think DP is not responsbile for it because this tool uses your api in case of Google and Yahoo api for yahoo and msn api for msn. It just collects and display to you results. That's all.
Have you tried looking at your Google results accross their many data centers. The last time I saw a count there were over seventy know datacenters. To my minds eye there is no such think as absolute position since rarely are all datacenters in sync. If you are located in Canada, say google.ca often will show better results for you say than one of the other Googles. Over time the keyword tracker reflects trends regarding placement.
It's not that the tool is inaccurate, it's merely that it picks data from one of the dozens of datacentres. I believe it tries to pick your local one based on your preferences, so make sure they are set to your needs. So whilst it retrieves accurate data from Datacentre A, you may be looking at Datacentre B.
i have changed settings to uk , and english language . Ive also looked at a google datacenter checker and on not one of the datacenters listed am i any where near what DP say's i am , how do we know what datacentre DP uses to check results against?
Don't think you can. It uses the API and the API returns whichever they pick on their turn. It's sort of hit and miss in that regard. Then again, what you see manually may well be different from what your visitors see in their Google so it's all relative anyway - I wouldn't be overly bothered about it.
If it's all relative and everbody (including API's) see different results... what's the in tracking then? Is it true that when person A does a search on say google.nl and person B des he same, the results may be completely different? I didn't think so, but then again I may be wrong. All I expect from DP is that it returns the same results that I see when manually searching on google.nl. But maybe the API uses a completely different data center than manual searchers
Have you never seen SERPs change a minute after you did the same search? It changes all the time. The load balance the requests so the next request could well go to a different datacentre which so happens to have a different index / algo. Besides that, if you're logged in they can tailor the results to your history etc. There's cookies they track. Etc. etc. There's plenty of scope to change SERPs based on many variables. Whilst they might be the same for two persons, it's unlikely. But don't expect that DP returns what you see, that's just plain not how it works. Especially for non .com searches. Use it as a gauge, not as an accurate metric. Just monitor you're going up or down, the trends, not the positions. Welkom van een landgenoot, trouwens