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    • vtmoz
      vtmoz last edited by

      Hi all,

      We use incognito mode or private browsing to check the Actual results which are not impacted by previous history, location (sometimes), etc. Even we browse this way, we can see the different search results. Why would this happen? What's Google's stand on this? What is the actual way to browse to get the unbiased results for certain search queries? I have experienced that Chrome will rank our own websites bit higher compared to the other browsers even in incognito mode.

      Thanks

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      • GabeJordan
        GabeJordan last edited by

        I agree with seoman10 in that it is often difficult to get accurate results, especially when a client is out of state and you are trying to replicate what they are seeing. One saving grace is that some tools, like SemRush actually allow you to set where you want to search from ex: if your client is in Little Rock Arkansas & you are located in NYC you can set your rank tracking from Little Rock and it is actually pretty accurate. Nothing is 100%, but we have found this is pretty reliable.

        Cheers,

        G

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        • seoman10
          seoman10 last edited by

          Google tries to personalize the results as much as possible, they use cookies and other types of identification data to try and track users and provide the most relevant results.

          After you close chrome technically there is no method for Google to identify who you are, hence you may see different results.

          Getting accurate search position results for tracking marketing progress seems a bit of a buzz word at the moment.  It comes back to as Marketers/SEO's we need to track and monitor our efforts, on the flipside Google is trying to provide the most accurate result to the user often by means of personalisation.  That is where you have an immediate conflict, for maximum user engagement (which all of us want) you sometimes have to sacrifice tractability.

          Assuming you did manage to track personalised results you would need a lot of data about that person and their browsing habits to understand how you back best matched their search query.  Most of us would quickly get ourselves lost in data.  Does that make sense?

          There are plenty of Serps checker tools around, but I sometimes have my doubts how accurate they are - Google definitely doesn't like them.

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