I have been having an issue with seeing true position of my adwords; There are three main ways; a) signed into google which should be inaccurate given the influence of your personal account b) signbed out of google which should be accurate however not clever as this lowers you ctr c) google adwords preview tool which is should be correct and not affect your ctr. Am I correct in thinking that b) and c) should be the same position. If so, then I am having some sort of problem as in my account b) and c) are not the same. Please help!
For me the best way to observing my ads position is the third answer. This tool is prepared especiually for Adwords user. In this tool you see your ads but you not doing a real search. Do you know what does it means? And I think that you should use this. About the position. You will never see your ads in the same item. because Adwords is auction. In this moment your competition has a smaller CPC than you but in the next search he will be better.