How to prevent my search results being affected by the previous searches I have made ?

[EricMoore]

How to ensure that the search I have made is not based on my past search history and the results in my cache ? I don't want to sign out of Google every time and then clear my cache. Does Incognito Mode in Google Chrome work or is there any other way of making my search results unbiased ?

[easyrider2]

Google has never really revealed what chrome does with the cached image. It is believed that it is stored to RAM rather than HDD. You should not be logged into Chrome at any point when checking rankings as you will automatically be using Googles personalised search.

However, if you log out, use incognito and do not actually open the sites and just do the search it will not effect the results. It is when you open sites that it will remember that as a preferred site.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Incognito in Chrome all the way.

However, if you are just looking to track keywords, try something like SheerSEO or if you want more functionality, SEOmoz. Both will give you a free trial.

Andy

[SimonCullum]

Hi There

Check out a blog post here on SEOmoz entitled "Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google"

• Adding  &pws=0  to the end of the search query URL in the address bar should do it for you (without having to log out of your Google account).

Regards

Simon