Mixed up Rankings

[Angelos_Savvaidis]

I was checking my ranking reports and double checking them on Google to see if it match.

My rankings was updated today on seomoz and almost none of the rankings match the real thing. For example I have a rank that in seomoz says 9th place and i am checking it at google and it says 6th. Is there a possible explanation?

I am in a need of an answer as soon as possible.

Thanks in Advance

[askshopper]

Have same issue but it is Google doing it's dance at the moment will take some time to settle :-).

[PaulRonin]

If you check here there are a few specific reasons why your results might vary in more detail:

http://www.seomoz.org/help/rankings

About 1/4 of the way down they detail a few reasons for the differences.

They also mention trying "To turn off personalization, append &pws=0 to the end, so it would look like google.com/search?q=SEO&pws=0."

And then theres always the chance for latency: the difference in time between when SeoMoz does the search and then sends you the report.

[Angelos_Savvaidis]

I am using various browsers for search plus i am not logged in and i am disabling previous search activity and stuff..........

[PaulRonin]

Are you logged into Google?  Do you have search history enabled?  What is your geo targeted location?

Any of these can drastically change the rankings you will see.  The effects of personalized search.

The fact that you are seeing a higher ranking in your results than what SeoMoz reports leads me to believe one of the above issues is causing your issue.

I usually have multiple browsers just for this purpose.  I tend to have at least one browser that I almost never use for the purpose of "checking" rankings(opera or safari).  I usually clear all cache and history from the browser to anonomize the results as much as possible. As well as to make sure that I'm not logged into Google.