Tracker not correctly reflecting my SE rank for at least one keyword

Discussion in 'Keyword Tracker' started by Jester, Mar 25, 2006.

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    Just a quick question. One of my keywords fell from 9th to 103. Thats fine. But I just started to get visitors using that keyword. I did a manual lookup on Yahoo and it's 16th....not too good, but not as bad as the 103rd spot the tracker is showing. Am I missing something???? "free picture hosting" Just verfied again in Y!...16th.....102 in the tracker.

    Thanks!

    J
     
    Jester, Mar 25, 2006 IP
  2. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    Due to the many data centers you may find your keyword at many different positions in SERPs. There is no guarantee API will connect to same data center to which you connect. I have keywords showing various diverse positions as well now. Lets hope the datacenters finally stabalize and show our keywords in favorable positions.
     
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  3. Jester

    Jester Well-Known Member

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    That's what I was thinking....It's always good to hear it though.

    Thanks

    J
     
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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Also, check #24 in the FAQ.
     
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  5. Jester

    Jester Well-Known Member

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    #24 specifies Google. I wanted to be sure it applied to Y! as well. Sorry for the post.

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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Applies to all search engines.
     
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    I have specified no language restrictions in my configuration, and Norway as my country of choice. So I would hope this would restrict the keyword tracker to look up my position on google.no.

    When I do a search on a certain keyword I see myself in #10 on google.no, but the keyword tracker shows me at #1 and #2. This is in fact the same result as I get when I search on google.no and restrict the search to norwegian sites, even though I've set no language restrictions in the keyword tool configuration.

    I've done the same test on a few other keywords too and they all give the same result: Keyword tracker uses SERPs from google.no with language set to Norwegian.
     
    torkil, Apr 20, 2006 IP