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Great tip Ana. Hate when Goggle think they know what I want 
Thank you for sharing those tips.
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Ana,
I just had to come back and tell you how helpful this was. I have been testing the search terms I have been going for and this give me a true picture. I am winning on some and others I am not. Now I can work on those I am not.
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Hello Ana, I just checked this out: 1=search regular without pws=0, 2=search regular with pws=0, 3 search incognito without pws=0. 1 gives the same results as 3, obviously based on my past browsing history. Only 2 appears to ignore my past browsing. What do you find? Am I missing something here?
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That is SOOOOO cool!! I never knew about incognito, I spend half my time logging in and out of my Google account so they don’t skew my search results!! You just save me a heap of time!
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While Chrome is probably the best browser to use for this because you can have one window showing personalized results and open a new incognito window that doesn’t show personalized results, the other major browsers do have “private browsing” options.
For checking the ranking positions of my sites, I use the Rank Checker Firefox plugin from seobook.com which will show you your rankings in Google, Yahoo, and Bing for a list of keywords. You can save your list and even export the results as a CSV file if you want to keep a record.
I do like Rank Checker; I only wish someone would come up with a tool that tells YOU what pages are ranking for what keywords, instead of us trying to see if we ranked for a particular keyword.
Makes sense?
Ana, do you use Google Webmaster Tools? They provide you with a report that shows the impressions your site gets for different search queries.
I find the data very helpful,as the report gives you info on the “impressions” that keywords from your site are getting in searches.
Here’s an example: You may see that a search for the keyword “traffic generation” resulted in an impression for your site at #100 in the search results. The report will also give you the clickthrough rate for the impressions.
Note: The data is not presented in real time, however it is extremely valuable to know what keywords are making impressions and where they are in the SERPS.
You will discover keywords and keyword phrases that you aren’t even targeting…but they are appearing in searches.
You can take this data and optimize the keywords and move them up into the traffic. Best of all it’s a free service! Give it a try.
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I think you can obtain the same effect by using a high anonymity proxy or having two browsers.
(and of course do some other things too).
One that you use frequently and one that has cookies, internet history, cache etc disable so that google can’t collect or store any kind of data in it, thus with one browser you can surf the net while with the other you can check google results
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Cool; I knew about the extra code but not the ‘incognito’ function in chrome (maybe I should use it more over firefox :p). Will give it a go.
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I still prefer Firefox, but only out of habit. I think Chrome has great functionality.
Why would one need such stealthiness, aka Incognito?
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To see the correct results from search engines. You can try searching for a certain keyword while google personalizes your results and then use a proxy or use Ana’s technique and do the same query, you will see different results.
This is critical for anyone who wants to promote a website, because he needs to see what almost everybody sees and not the results tailored after the data google collected from him.
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Dennis… Don’t tell me you didn’t actually read the post… again!
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Honestly no, not really. I do not now nor plan to use Chrome, like ever. I was more curious then anything.
*Again* sounds a bit off, refresh my memory?
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Hi Ana,
Great tips!!! You’ve got my mind going as to where you come up with these tips! I do searches myself and visit other blogs but you really do share some pretty cool tips. Thank you so much for that and for continuing to bring us such great information.
Adrienne
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Thanks Ana for this tip! I surely was one of those people who thought all I had to do was turn log out of my Google account. This is a true gem! On to use it now
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Hi Ana,
I always wonder where you dig out these tips - thanks for sharing. It makes sense to search incognito.
Take care
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Thanks Ana,
I was signing out and making sure that my location was uk (as most of my clients work within a specific area in the Uk) always good to find others ways to see the real results, rather than what Google thinks we want.
cheers
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Of course, just signing out doesn’t work well.
You are welcome, Pippa!
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Curious - Does IE’s “In Private” does the same thing as Chrome’s “Incognito?”
Don’t use IE; have no idea.
Wow cool tutorial, thanks Ana. I didnt know that Google personalized totally makes searches bias, now I know better. Thanks for the code
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You are welcome, Edwin!
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BRILLIANT Ana!!
Also, this is epic Google info here..of which I had no clue! UH, der.
Thanks for always bringin’ it Ana
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Thanks, Lisa - as you can tell, I am making it up as I go.
Ana,
I love how this works. It makes my search real and not just what I want to see. I will be playing around with this one and doing a good search of the terms I have been going for.
I like your new banners too. Very pleasant. They look more like “your recommendations” than a regular banner link.
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Thanks, Sheila.
Banner blindness is definitely an issue; hoped to solve it with these new banners.
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Ana, thanks for tip about changing the search location. Your post reminded me of a website that I found a while back on Google search. I recommend that you check it our for lots of advanced search tips that you may find useful. (or just bookmark it and then forget about it completely until someone writes a blog posting about it…like I did.)
Here’s the link: http://www.googleguide.com/
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You are right, Kerry - I opened the tool, decided I didn’t have the time right there and then and now it’s just sitting opened, begging me “read me, read me!”….
And so the saga of unread page continues…
Ahaha “incognito”…incredible google. I use Google alerts and I see how much clutter people throw into the internet…Sure it is quite difficult to be on top rankings with all this (example: people writing stupid articles just to talk about the keywords they choose). Hugs!
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That’s why I stopped using G Alerts, Elena - drove me nuts!
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I totally agree but the thing is how long are they gonna track me till they get the name of my girlfriend and the last time I saw her plus the maiden name of my mum!
‘internet income rant signing off…’
Stop using internet?
I think our choices are quite limited here, Tim.
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NICE, Ana!
That’s all, nice. And that &pws=0 trick . . . sometimes I really am amazed by the stuff others know!
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It’s good to know what others know.
And now, Jeff, you are in the know.
Sorry, couldn’t resist…
Nice tip. This is the kind of stuff I love. Effect, but simple. I just ran across something similar with my post last week. Check out my latest post and you will see how this search engine doesn’t track your habits or save your data. You can also proxy results.
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Will check it out!
Great search engine ranking tips you’re sharing here, Ana.
I only started using the “incognito” option recently and it works like a charm.
I know most people think that by simply logging off your Google account will do the trick, well it doesn’t.
All the best,
Mavis
P.S. Love the changes on your blog. The new banners are beautiful!
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Thanks, Mavis - I got some great feedback from my readers and no working on ti slowly, but truly.
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Hey Ana,
Awesome tips, I had no idea about this until you opened my eyes. Thanks for sharing these great tips.
Btw, Who made those great banner ads for you
jk
Ian
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You are very welcome also Ana,
Maybe a little big, What do other people think? I would ask everyone’s opinion.
They do draw attention being big though. If you need me to re-size them just let me know.
Thanks Ana and have a great day!
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On the contrary Ana, I think they are perfect. Not too obtrusive and quite eye catching. Kudos Ian!
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Thanks Lisa!
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Great tip Ana. Hate when Goggle think they know what I want
Thank you for sharing those tips.
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I know; I turned Google Instant off in an instant.
Hey Ana,
It’s definitely important to turn off personalized search when you want to find out your true rankings. I appreciate the two tips you have shared with me because I knew nothing about them.
When I want to find out where I really am in the search engines I just go to tools and click on clear recent history. That usually does the trick, but sometimes I don’t want to clear all my history so I will try out both the methods you’ve listed here see how well I like them. Thanks for sharing your tips and advice on this topic.
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I am with you, John - I do like to keep history intact; makes my life easier in many cases.
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Hi Ana,
Awww…and here I thought I made it to the first page.:( I guess I’ve still got a lot of hard work left for that distinction. I noticed on Chrome that if you clear your cookies, it does the same thing.
Lou
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I know, Lou… those personalized searches: can’t live with them, can’t leave without them.
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Wow-another thing to add to the tech-toolbox. Although I’m undyingly grateful to those Google guys for drastically simplifying my life the past decade, they don’t need to know the toilet paper I use.
TY for the code, Ana and welcome back from your ski vacation:)
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Although if I am out shopping for toilet paper and forget which brand I like best, all I need to do is Google it.
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SEO companies should eliminate web history because when they optimize a website for certain keywords, test searches and analyze competitors, then google may show results in favour of that website to them, while for others different results would appear.
Either way you look at it, there are downsides, Andreas.
At least these searches are a good start.
Being in Thailand I need to go even further with this. I use a Firefox plugin called Google Global that will show me results specific to the US and other countries. I notice it adds in the code you mention automagically, so I’m covered!
Yay tools! I’m excited. And yes I’m alive!
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Good to know, Robert - sometimes I do need to do a search in a different country.
By the way, I use Market Samurai for this types of searches and it also automatically adds the code.
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Very cool never noticed that. Thanks.
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Thanks for that tip…I want to degress….
Sometimes these machines think they know too much about us. Off course Google is a machine and how the hell do they think they can track us…they track our behaviour and think they can determine what we’ll do or search…absurd isn’t it?
Well, let’s see how the search engine evolve and thanks Ana for giving me a way to GAME THE SEARCH ENGINE!
You are welcome, Tim. I confess sometimes their “tracking” can serve it’s purposes, but come on…
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