Comments on: Google Shifts Position on SERP Tracking with Addition of New Referral Strings

By: Searcher

Searcher — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:58:46 +0000

You don’t know the half of it, people. Google’s API team is BRUTAL to work with and they will SUSPEND your key w/o warning while leaving someone else’s key in tact for doing the same thing. They won’t tell you any information. They will tell you, basically, to f*uck off.

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:01:39 +0000

Don’t expect that google will reveal all their secrets to the public. There is some info they would like you to know…but there are so many thing behind the scene.

By: CAP Digisoft Solutions Inc.

CAP Digisoft Solutions Inc. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:17:48 +0000

Hi Jon,

You are absolutely with the points given. Presently Google more localized in providing results that global. often i search for some resources globally but i could get local data around 5 pages and then it goes as well..

By: Bernt Johansson

Bernt Johansson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:51:30 +0000

BTW: I am seeing the new referring urls, not only when users are logged on, but also on sitelinks, without being logged on.

By: Bernt Johansson

Bernt Johansson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:48:34 +0000

@referencement, thats the beauty of it all. If and when the new reffering urls are used on all referrals SEOs can report, to their clients, the average ranking on the keywords that actually drive traffic.

We will always need to check rankings manually for competitor and market analysis purposes though.

By: Referencement

Referencement — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:41:23 +0000

Hi, I’ve done some testing:

1. Cd variable only appears when a user is logged in to his Google account.

2.When a user is logged in he can personnalize a result page, this results in a change in the cd var.

… therefore it won’t change the way seo’s check for their rankings.

By: Bernt Johansson

Bernt Johansson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:06:08 +0000

I am really excited about this. It would be so much better to be able to report ranking on the keywords generating traffic directly from Google Analytics.

I have made some initial test on the new referring urls, and it looks promising to say the least. Check the link on my name to read more on the tests.

By: Eric Enge

Eric Enge — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:08:41 +0000

I am with Dixon on this one. Rank checking can, and often does, become an unhealthy obsession.

By: Dixon Jones

Dixon Jones — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:23:04 +0000

I also like the sound of this, but I disagree that Google needs to still give out data on rankings when people “don’t” click. I think that method of measuring SEO performance was flawed from the start – for everyone – and the sooner the rank checkers are consigned to history, the sooner we can concentrate on quality over vanity.

Dixon.

By: Ben Joven

Ben Joven — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:06:09 +0000

dude there are too many SERP ranking tools out there…huh? dude just google it…yeah there are some paid services and there are some “free” services regardless the only rankings that count as far as CTR is concerned is Google Organic and not Google Local…

People just don’t click on Google local unless they’re looking for pizza and I don’t think searchers trust the weird map thing with all the letters on it UNLESS they are truly looking for something geo-specific.

eg., The closest smog checking place in San Diego, “smog check San Diego”, now that may be a relevant search result