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    • tmg.seo
      tmg.seo last edited by

      I have seen an interesting Google behaviour this morning.

      As usual, I would open Chrome's private browsing to see how a keyword is ranking.

      This was what I see...

      Typed in "sell my car", I see Auto Trader page on 3rd. (Ref:Sell My Car 1st result img)

      Googled something else, then re-Googled "sell my car" and saw that our page went to 2nd!

      I repeated the same process and saw that we went from 3rd to 2nd again. Has Google results gone mental?

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      • GeorgiaSEOServices
        GeorgiaSEOServices last edited by

        Just sounds like a strange anomaly. "Sell my car" is a very broad search term. With the constantly changing landscape of the Google SERP's, it could well have been something like a new video result that was a video on selling cars that pushed you off the page. Private browsing also blocks cookies and that's not a consistent way to monitor results.

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