Keyword Tracker and Google positions don't match

Discussion in 'Keyword Tracker' started by Lars518, May 20, 2005.

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    I sent the following message to the webmaster at Digitalpoint and received a reply suggesting I post this request for information on this forum.

    Enjoy using your site however, the benefits are only useful if they
    work. According to 3 key words I checked only 1 of them actually
    appears, in Google, where you Keyword Checking says it is. i.e.
    aircraft charter Keyword Tracking says 30 and have checked through 100
    and can¹t be found aircraft charters Keyword Tracking shows 20 and it
    is 20 on Google charter aircraft Keyword Tracking say 22 and have also
    checked through 100 and can¹t be found.
    I have searched these keywords under www.corporatecharters.ca
    http://www.corporatecharters.ca/

    Can you please explain?

    Thanks anyone
     
    Lars518, May 20, 2005 IP
  2. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    Google has more than 50 datacenter. Some of them are active, some are not. At any given time if I search for a particular keyword and you do the same thing we may hit different datacenters and get different results. For a new site results tend to be more irratic than an old site. Some of the datacenters will have newer data showing site, some will not.

    You may want to view McDar's tool and compare results on multiple datacenters. The tool can be found http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php .

    Good luck,
    Shannon
     
    Smyrl, May 20, 2005 IP
  3. mjewel

    mjewel Prominent Member

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    You have a Canada domain (ca) and google ranks websites geographically. When you check the sites yourself, google realizes where you IP is located and will return results accordingly. Google figures your domain may be more important to people in Canada, so it might rank higher for certain keywords in search results. In the rest of the world, it may rank lower or not at all. Where you domain is hosted can also affect search results. They keyword tracker goes by the API and isn't checking search results according to your specific IP.

    I would assume your results are even more drastic because of the .ca instead of a .com.
     
    mjewel, May 20, 2005 IP