What is your rank on Google?

From an SEO standpoint your Google Rank or SERP ( Search Engine Rank Position) is the main focus of all Search Engine Optimization efforts. The better or higher your rank (closest to #1) means more organic search traffic.

Recently Google has incorporated IP address as well as Google Customized searches based on your individual web search history and actual physical location. What this means is that you are not seeing a true SERP at times when you type in your keywords. You may see a customized search due to your personal web browsing history or customized search based on your geographical location based upon your computers IP address.

So what can you do to find out your true Google Rank or SERP ?

This Richmond Virginia SEO Company uses a multiple datacenter search tool. Google uses many datacenters throughout the world to report their findings. Their are over 120 datacenters that are recognized and accounted for that return results for your given keyword term searches. Your datacenters for your area are normally geo trageted and you may see results from 3 different data center IP address when do any search throughout the day. When you check your Cache you will notice the http:// numbers that represent the datacenter that is report yoru results. We use several tools, but this DataCenter Tool has proven the most effective in seeing search engine results from many of the Google IP datacenters across the world.

To find your true rank we take and average of the results from at least 25 of the different datacenters. Youc an pick all the datacenters to search if you have the time and connection speed. Regardless, using a tool like the one above gives you a truer indication of your actual rank in Google as seen by your potential internet customers.

Don’t get fooled by the custoimized results and web history results. Check across many Data Centers to see your true rank.

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