SEOMoz Campaign

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Just how lagged are the rankings on SEOMoz Campaigns?  They seems to be weeks behind what  I actaully see.

[shiftins]

it says it updates weekly but ive also noticed very out dated data for my site especially with link data. it might be because moz is for seos that run multiple campaigns and do things on monthly schedules because they manage multiple campaigns. maybe they should do more frequent updates for small business owners or people with like 2 or less campaigns that need more daily activity reports.

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Actually for me is seems to be about 2 months old.  We were hit hard by penguin and it seems I am just now seeing that April debacal hit the rankings page.

Anyway.... perhaps it is ok when things are running smooth but in trying to monitor rankings more closely it seems quite useless.....

I know some people will want to jump on here and tell me I can't monitor rankings that closely that it is a fools game.  Please don't bother ....I am tired of being preached to about big picture....yea there is that but anyone that had traffic cut in half needs to look at rankings weekly for a while.

Our rankings are fluctuation wildly from week to week.  On page one for days and then no were and then back to page one and then to page 5 and then no where and back to page one.  Google sucks and is penalizing white hats and still rewarding total spam.

Take any comparisons shopping site.  That is not a site.  It is a site that lists sites.  That is spam.

[shiftins]

i completely agree with you i have the same issue with rank tracking im a new seo also and have been running up the ranks and it is really insignificant to track rankings with moz data. what i have been doing is a using a second browser with no cookies and no chache settings to track rankings so you might wanna try it that way.

i dont know if its possible for them to deliver data on a daily basis but thats really what i think small business seo needs is very micro data analysis (at least we do). when we change things on a daily basis to our websites it would be nice to have more up to date data.

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I use to use Advanced Web Rankings but my subscription ran out and did not really want to pay for it again but I guess if I want rankings that are at all current I will need to use some program.  Only now as I understand it you have to be careful or you will get penalized for that.  You can bet Target, REI, Amazon, Bizrate (a total useless piece of crap), all do just as they please and do not get penalized because they spend million on PPC.

In the last 3 years every move made is more of a move to kick the little guy to the curb.  This will only accelerate in the comping years.  In 3 to 5 year page one will be 100% paid.....mark my words....it is coming.

[shiftins]

yeah hopefully moz sees this iono if Im willing to pay a $99/ month to be a forum member....

[randfish]

Hey guys - the ranking collections are indeed weekly. They may not match exactly what you see depending on personalization, geography, IP address, browser, and any/everything else Google uses to personalize, customize or test results, however, they are always current.

We don't ever do anything like say a ranking is updated without actually going and grabbing the SERP where it exists.

That said, we're unlikely to ever get to daily rankings updates. It's just not feasible with so many customers (16,500+ subscribers today tracking millions of keywords weekly). There are a few other services that, I believe, do provide daily rankings. AuthorityLabs can do this, though it may be price-dependent.

If rankings is the only reason you're using Moz and the Q+A, Pro content, webinars, tool collections, crawl data, opensiteexplorer, etc al. isn't needed, then you might want to consider one of these others. We'll be sad to lose you, but definitely want the best for marketers.

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Thank for clearing that up Rand.  As I said we are seeing wild gyrations in rankings.   In the 3 years I have been doing SEO for a few sites I have never seen anything like it. Hence my rant about Google the almighty machine and their continued march away from the little guy.  The little guy does not pay the bills or create more billions... I get that. I realize that is a different topic.

Thanks for the details on the ranking.

Yes I use some of the other tools here on Moz.  I am just trying to understand what the ranking interval was and based on what I saw I thought it was much older.