Erratic movements on Rank Tracker-why is this?
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I have been looking at 2 key words for my site & three other sites, I am refreshing daily to understand it movements and the movements have been really erratic - droping 8 places in one day, then back 7 places the next. There have not been any changes made to the site in question during this period other than I me starting to track them with SEOmoz - Can anyone explain what would be behind this?
thanks,
S
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I don't get any pop up or options. Does this work with Firefox?
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Hi- if you click on the ranking a little div appears under it with four options; one of them is the refresh rank option.
Hope that helps,Sinead
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Ok, I just looked at ranking settings and did not see a refresh or daily rankings options. Can you help point it out for me? Thanks.
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Hi Russ,
One such ranking is reporting that it is up 9 places(that is since I checked yesterday) to position 8. When I actually google it though it is in position 10 and just FYI there doesn't seem to be any mention of place listings.
thanks,
Sinead -
Hi Anthony
"Are you referring to the seomoz Ranking Report"
I am referring to that yes - there is an option within it to "refresh ranking" which looks like it allows you to update daily.
Thanks for reply though
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If your site ranks in positions 20-100, you should expect regular large fluctuations. There tends to be a lot of movement the deeper you go in the SERPs.
If you are in the top 10-20, it might have to do with Google choosing to include alternatives to organic in the serps, like a Google Places listing, which has the potential to push back a large number of sites very quickly one day, and then be gone the next.
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Are you referring to the seomoz Ranking Report? This report runs weekly and does not provide rankings on a daily basis, so there could be ranking fluctuations when comparing the ranking report to actual google rankings.
I have also noticed alot of ranking fluctuations in google lately as well. Hope this helps some.
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