Ranking report not accurate
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I've justed signed up for SEOMOZ and testing out the ranking report software. For a client that I'm doing an audit for I've ran a ranking report against the keywords.
Using Chrome Incognito I've checked the ranking and they are on the 1st page but the ranking report is showing they aren't in the top 43, any ideas why this might be?
I've checked my setting and set up and that's all fine.
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Just a quick check to make sure that you're using the same subdomain in both cases. Could the campaign be for non-www and the site is ranking for the www version?
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Hi Charlotte
First of all make sure you are not signed in, even with incognito on it will still bring up personalized results.
Personally, I tend not to use SEOmoz for rank tracking as they tend to be slightly off (something that i think they are working on), for full SERPs reports i'd use Ravens Tools or do it manually.
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If you want me to doublecheck give the search term and the URL and I will tell you exactly what I get off of my phone when I search on Google
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Even using incognito does not Help much especially if you're still logged into Google are you check that? Even if you are not logged into Google take away all variables. For instance type in pizza I guarantee you will find a Google give you closest pizza place regardless of whether or not using incognito so I would trust in what SEOmoz says more than what your own computer tells you. You can also double check is another third-party software's semrush.com , SpyderMate, Raven tools, Majestic Seo, there are so many different tools out there that will give you a rank and the rink should be based on what the normal find further so many variables to using your own computer that I would trust anything SEOmoz tells you over your own computer unfortunately our own Google systems let us down for Giving the correct answer when trying to write for the entire United States it would be actually unreasonable from multiple different reasons for Google to give you the same answers that might give me because were in different areas and our search habits are different. If you have a client and has been using the same Google acount or computer so that you're logged into Google and you're constantly checking Their rank and clicking on their pages start your choice for whatever search term you used over and over again Google will favor them every time And take into consideration exactly where you are in the entire United States Sincerely, Thomas
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