Why do I get a vastly different keyword ranking on google using different browsers?
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With Fire Fox I get a ranking of 3 for roof coating and get a page 6 with Chrome and IE.
Not sure what is going on with that.
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No problem at all. Happened to me more than once. Good luck!
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Thanks Anthony. Tried your suggestions and that did the trick. Was getting a false sense of accomplishment by just checking my keywords with firefox. Now I have some work to do.
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If you use Firefox for you everyday browsing and you're logged in to a Google Account related to your site, that's probably the problem.
For example when I'm logged in to Google (Analytics, Webmaster, Google+, whatever) my site ranks #1 for one of my targeted keywords. If I'm not logged in, I'm #9.
It could also be your cookies, cache, location setting etc. that's causing Google to serve a site they think you prefer higher in the rankings.
Try clearing your cache and cookies in Firefox and logging out of any accounts, then check again.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Anthony
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