How to find your real search rankings?

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You have a nice blog, let’s say for example your niche is about “song lyrics”. So you are targeting “song lyrics” as your main keyword. One day you decided to check your Google rankings. You go to Google.com and type “song lyrics”. And when the search results came out you find out that you are in number 2 for the targeted keyword! and then your happy!

But let me tell you this, have you heard about the innovation of Google, Personalized Search? When you search for a particular keyword there are many factors that influence that result like the region where you are, your IP address, your language, the history and frequency of your searches. And later you realize that your blog with the “song lyrics” is not really number 2! It just so happen that it was influenced by Google’s Personalized Search as a result your blog was rank as number 2. Disappointing isn’t it?

Now how do you find your real search rankings? Luckily there is a tool developed for this purpose. This tool is called Scroogle.

This Scroogle is a Google scraper that will get the search results from Google and removing the things that could influence the search result such as cookies, IP address, location and etc. In this way there would be no past data that could affect the results thus you get a search result that an average internet user would get from their computer.

Cool huh? you can try it here: http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

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