Ranking History - different to my actual

[Cocoonfxmedia]

Hi

Little confused with the ranking report on a campaign.  www.google.co.uk I am position 1 for "web development company".  On the ranking report I am not in the top50.  Last update was on the 18th Jan.

How current is the ranking report as my other ranking software (Rank Tracker) is a little more upto date?

[Gordon_Hall]

Is this a new problem or has it only just arisen? Was it tracking correctly over the past couple of weeks.

If this is a new campaign then in could be that you are tracking your subdomain and not the root domain in your campaign... worth a check. If it is wrong, you'll need to tear it down and start again.

[Cocoonfxmedia]

I am pretty new to the tools, so it could be my lack of understanding.  However its set to my root domain.  I know that it went to P1 on or around the 15th Jan the campaign shows last update 18th. So could the results be a week old?

[WorldText]

Is that a signed out, no cookies search giving you #1?

As I've just searched Google UK and can't find you in the first 10 pages, so it seems the ranking report is about right.

If you were ranking and have suddenly dropped, how's your link profile?  Amy messages in Webmaster tools?

[Cocoonfxmedia]

Humm, ok I think the other tool is possibly working off cookies. The link profile is growing I am concentrating on good content first.

[Cocoonfxmedia]

Humm, ok I think the other tool is possibly working off cookies. The link profile is growing I am concentrating on good content first.

[SamWeber]

Hi!

Thanks for the question.  Your rankings do look accurate in my searches.  To touch on Gordon and Matt's points, It's generally best practice to set the campaign domain off of what you're ranking for.  In your case, you're ranking for your sub (www) and have the campaign set for sub so you're ok there.  Also, there are many factors generally in play for search results.  You'll want to set a browser in incognito or privacy mode when you're conducting searches for comparative purposes.  You usually won't see an exact match in ranking data since we update once a week vs once a day or more for the engines, but you'll usually be within a couple spots of our report.

Best,

Sam
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[Cocoonfxmedia]

Thanks everyone, ok I understand fully now thanks for the replies.