Why am I getting different ranking results on Google?
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Because the rank checker on SEOMOZ is temporarily down for upgrade, I followed the link over to the other suggested rank checker on seobook.com which installs a plug-in to Firefox and it seems to be working fine….BUT my question is when I check out my two highest traffic keywords which are “Whitby holiday cottages” and “Whitby cottages” against my website www.endeavourcottage.co.uk it tells me I'm ranking position 2 on both Google.com and Google.co.uk but I don't think I am.
When I do the same check using a proxy server called hidemyass.com to check my rankings again on Google.co.uk and .com I appeared to be lower down the rankings like position 8. Does anyone have any idea of which is the accurate reference to my rankings? What do you do to check your rankings ?
And one last quick secondary question is when I searching Google chrome using same key words again I come at the top position A on the Google maps listing but using Firefox or Internet Explorer there is no Google maps visible ways that?
At the end of the day out rankings are important but where are working towards more traffic......
Cheers
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Thank you I got the same 8 and 12 on G.com using hidemyass.com but not on the Rank Checker ...not good if it’s inaccurate
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8 and 12 when I checked your keywords. (google.com)
I go incognito or Private Browsing (Firefox) to check rankings when my favorite tool is not working for me.
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