Can using the Google Keywords tool and/or SEOmoz cause problems for my company's IP address?
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I just started with a company a few weeks back, working on-site doing SEO work. I've been using SEOmoz as well as Google Adwords' Keywords tool. I just got a message from one of our reps saying that people at the office (and this is a huge office) have reported tons of CAPTCHAs being thrown up frequently. I told them I had been running searches with Google Keywords tool and SEOmoz, but would that really cause that much of a problem? Is there anything I can do in order to fix this, some keyword finders that won't get me in trouble, etc.?
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That's not a problem I've heard of often. I might wonder about your internet connection. A lot of searches being done from a single IP address could be the problem. Multiple internet access circuits may solve or help isolate the problem. Maybe there are automated searches being done over that circuit? Is anyone running local software to do ranking reports--like webceo or something like that?
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Hi Ken,
The quick answer, no...
Both SEOMoz and Adwords do all the work at their end and you only make the one request to these sites to obtain the data.
The CAPTCHA code occurs when multiple requests are run from the one IP address to Google search. This can happen naturally if many people are googling at the same time and your company only runs the one IP. It could also occur if you are using downloaded software to obtain SERP data directly from Google.
Hope this helps,
Dan
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