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    • Netlogiq
      Netlogiq last edited by

      Hi,

      I am making the SEO reports for a travel agency  and I have the following problem.

      SEOmoz shows me the website is on page 1, for a keyword.

      Yesterday, a google search with firefox showed me the same position, while, searching from a different computer on google using firefox gave me another position. The URL shown was also different.

      I asked some friends to do the search - the results were the same - first page.

      Today, firefox shows me the second URL on the 4'th page, and the result from the first page of google does not appear, while Chrome still shows me the first URL on the first page.

      I have no idea why the URL that was ranking well does not appear on the first page with Firefox, and why it appears on the first page with Chrome, or why the URL that was ranking bad -meaning page 4, appears on Firefox but does not appear on Chrome.

      Can someone give me some advice?

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      • Netlogiq
        Netlogiq last edited by

        Oki - now this is my conclusion - just in case someone else has this problem, or will have it and will try to find the answer on SEOmoz.

        The website has two results for the same keyword, on different pages that compete between themselves. The browsers access different datacenters, and it seems that on some datacenters the page that ranks well was not updated. I also noticed that in some Google data centers some of my website's pages are not even indexed.

        Solution: manual submitting these important seasonal pages to Google - wait for all the data centers to correlate the result.

        Any other ideas are welcomed!

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        • Netlogiq
          Netlogiq last edited by

          Extra Info - History was cleared on both browsers, I was not logged in on any account. etc.

          Answer to my question after doing some research:

          1. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/is-google-getting-too-personal

          2.http://www.seomoz.org/q/different-results-in-chrome-firefox-and-ie

          Selected AnswerGood Answer | Dejan SEODirector at Dejan SEO

          It could be the case of different browsers hitting different data centres which have not yet consolidated their rankings.

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