Did Google Turn Off the Rank Tracking API ??

[EGOL]

I might be responding too soon on this... but has anyone been able to use the Moz rank tracker or any other web-based rank-tracking tool that uses the Google API since about noon today (NYC TIME)??

[Jonathan1979]

I use another web based tracker that checks the rankings daily.  I guess I will find out tomorrow, and will update this thread then.  I am not sure they use an API though.  TBH I didn't realise they used Api's for this.

[LesleyPaone]

I do not know if it related, but ther has been a pretty big gmail issue all day. It seems that they understated the problem this morning, but re-adjusted it this evening saying around 50% of accounts were affected. It might have something to do with it, who knows how Google's networks and infrastructure is actually set up. http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/23/gmails-ongoing-email-slow-down-nearing-resolution/

[EGOL]

Thank you Lesley and Jonathan.

The ranking monitors that I use are not working.  Also, today most of the searches being done through google are not showing keywords in analytics programs.  My [keyword not provided] counts are up between 25% and 35% on all of my sites.   I figured that while Google was at it they would cut off our rank checking abilities.

[LesleyPaone]

I saw this today, I don't know if you are familiar with it, http://www.notprovidedcount.com/  and this http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-gone-100-provided-secure-search/70799/  They could also be affecting things.

[Jonathan1979]

No problems at my end, but I think the ranking service I use is crawler based.

[randfish]

Our one-off rank tracker: https://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker and the rank tracking inside Moz Analytics: http://analytics.moz.com/dashboard/overview/ seems to be working fine. We have an early warning detection system on the engineering side that goes off if we're having trouble, and there hasn't been a blip today.

[EGOL]

Thanks, Rand.

Good to know that you have these tests built-in.

Since about noon yesterday and into this morning, when I clicked the blue refresh buttons for a keyword, that keyword jumped to the top of the list, spun for a bit and did not return a ranking.   I just tried a few and am getting better results.

[randfish]

OK - glad to hear that. If you ever encounter an outage that's longer than 10-15 mins, please don't hesitate to ping our help team (help@moz.com). Hope you're well EGOL!