Our rankings are all over the place but mostly keywords are dropping
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our rankings are all over the place but mostly keywords are dropping from 2-20 to 35 and over 51. it has been happening over the past 3 weeks but don't know what to look for. any advise is appreciated. stevesautorepairva.com .
our other automotive website hometownetire.com seems to be doing better but do not know why. they are 2 separate businesses.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
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Hello!
I can confirm our tools are capturing the rankings as they appear for the locale and search engines setup. For example when searching on Google directly for "auto shops" with location set to Woodbridge, VA, the home page is not found in the top 50 search results.
The issues linked by Kyle are only for delayed collections and we currently have no known issues with our accuracy. You can run manual searches using an incognito window with your location set in Google to try to confirm:
Hope this helps!
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BTW, it appears to be Geolocation results that are impacted. Notice in your screen shot the results that dropped were Woodbridge location results, not the national ones.
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It appears to be some issues with the Moz rankings tracker, although it hasn't been confirmed. It has happened on my site and I noticed another thread earlier where someone was having the same issue. Not 100% sure this is the case based on the screen shot you provided but since others are seeing similar issues I would say it's not an issue with your site.
http://moz.com/community/q/is-anyone-seeing-consistent-fluctuation-in-geolocated-search-rankings
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