What's causing this site to rank better than another?
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As I work on getting a grasp for what causes sites to rank better than others, I'm a bit stumped with two of our competitors.
When you search Google for "essay editing" you get these results:
When you put these in OSE, it seems crazy that Ivyeyes is anywhere near the top. For example, essayedge creams these guys on EVERY single category.
As a new SEO here, what am I missing. This makes absolutely no sense to me. Not only that, it's pretty discouraging seeing essayedge so far down the SERPS with what appears to be some really great numbers.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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They certainly do. Google personalizes searches based on past search activity of the user.
You can read more about it here.
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Hi SEO5, thanks for the reply and making me rethink my approach. I just realized something interesting.
I didn't know Google was serving results for sites you've visited. Notice in the attached image how it is showing sites I've visited higher than those I haven't (and most recently too). I wasn't aware Google was doing this.
However, while in ad preview tool I get a slightly different ranking:
5. wordsru.com
Can the SERP ranking really change that much between your and my previews??
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Hi Kibin,
I'm getting the following results:
3.<cite>www.scribendi.com</cite>
4. <cite>www.papercheck.com</cite>
5. <cite>www.essayedge.com</cite>
Ivyeyesediting is ranked 13 if you use the ad preview tool to view the search results.
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