SEOMOZ stopped counting local results as a rank?

[r1200gsa]

I had a terrifying experience today upon receiving my weekly rankings report that stated I had dropped out of google for the majority of my keywords! However upon further inspection it would appear the report is not including local results in the ranking (my page shows up #1 but is a local result). This didn't happen before, did something change that I didn't know about?

[AlanMosley]

I am pretty sure thats how it has always been

[bobjones]

Did you reconnect your GA account a few weeks ago? Here's the announcement:https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/21081482-reconnect-your-google-analytics-in-your-campaigns

Not saying that that's the problem, but it's the only thing I can think of right now.

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hey Adam,

Thanks for writing in and sorry your rankings are looking off.

We've recently changed the way that we considered the blended places results so they are not considered to be the same a normal result in Google. While we were previously reporting these "places" keywords as ranking on the first page, we will no longer be counting the places results as ranking results for those keywords. I'm really sorry for the confusion!

I hope this clears things up a bit. If you have any further questions, please feel free to write us at help@seomoz.org.

-Chiaryn

[r1200gsa]

Thanks for the response Chiaryn, are there any further resources on seomoz talking about the change? I'd be interested in learning more about the technicalities behind the decision to make that change. Currently almost all of my keywords are ranked on a hybrid local result. I'm not sure if the new rank tracking is going to be very useful for someone in that scenario. Would you have any ideas on alternative methods of tracking local rank results on seomoz or elsewhere? Thanks again, I appreciate the help.

[debi_zyx]

We've been having the same issue (it impacts on client evaluation and reporting significantly), and I just found a blog post written by SEO staff about a week ago:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hot-off-the-press-more-universal-results-included-with-your-campaign-rankings

He mentions the change, and says that they are considering giving more options in the interface by which to view your results (i.e. by absolute organic position, not just "natural with universal excluded".)  I would visit the post, comment, and also follow the link to the feature request page for this and vote it up - maybe that'll help the change get made - and sooner.

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/21226961-show-the-top-universal-ranking-position-and-top-overall-ranking-position-as-well-as-top-natural-rank?page=1

Good luck!

-Aviva