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Don’t just search for yourself!

May 22, 2022 by Peter Mahoney

This is actually a stock answer I send people pretty often. I’m regularly asked about the difference between where a client sees themselves in rankings, or their friend, kid’s football coach, etc.

You shouldn’t search for yourself as a way to measure your ranking

Google does all kinds of personalisation on your search results (based on your network’s IP address, if you’re logged into any Google accounts, even your location) and the more often you look for your own site, the more skewed those results will be.

To give an example, most people searching for “seo expert peter” see my site on the first page. But I see myself on the fourth. Essentially because I’ve searched for myself so often, but then not spent much time on my site or even bothered to click it, Google has “learnt” that I don’t like it and therefore ranks it down for me, uniquely.

The right place to get Google’s official rank for your site is their Search Console system., which is where I get my stats.

Their stats are actually an ‘average’ of your rank which is the statistically most useful approach. Because of personalisation, not everyone sees your site in the same position. Where someone is searching from geographically for example has an impact. So the average rank is the best indicator of where you rank.

There’s a commonly held belief that if you use a private browsing window somehow you’ll see the proper rankings in the search results. But all that does is prevent Google from knowing your account – they still know where you live, your IP address, in some cases the unique code for your network card – there’s plenty for them to skew your results with.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Google, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Check out petermahoney.com

August 22, 2019 by Peter Mahoney

I’m all about having multiple sites!

🙂

https://peter.mahoneywebmarketing.com is my main personal website for my work as a WordPress SEO Expert. There’s a blog with lots of WordPress SEO tips, you can sign up for my SEO expert newsletter, and of course buy WordPress SEO services too – both one off SEO overhauls and long-term campaigns.

Filed Under: General, Nerd-stream Tagged With: wordpress seo

I regularly use an online skills marketplace called…

November 2, 2017 by Peter Mahoney

I regularly use an online skills marketplace called PeoplePerHour.

They recently named me their Webmaster of the Year!

Here’s my winner’s interview.

Filed Under: General, Nerd-stream Tagged With: award, peopleperhour, webmaster, webmaster of the year, winner

Blogilo

February 3, 2016 by Peter Mahoney

Not a lot of people know this, but I’m a full time Linux user. It’s awesome for web developemnt, I can create sites locally, testing them on the same infrastructure they’re likely to have on live servers.
I’m testing a new blogging client called Blogilo. I’ll review it later.

Filed Under: General, Nerd-stream Tagged With: blogging, blogilo, linux

Some people are rubbish

January 17, 2014 by Peter Mahoney

I need to moan. I’ve spent most of this week undoing the issues other “SEO professionals” made for some new clients.

One company was charging £400 a month, for six months, and supposedly never noticed that the robots.txt file was blocking all search engines from visiting.

Another set up a CNAME redirect for a site–and naturally Google was marking everything as duplicate content!

I wish this industry had fewer cowboys. A slick website and lots of promises does not a good company make.

Filed Under: General, Nerd-stream Tagged With: bloody cowboys, search engine optimisation, seo

German Language Coach

December 20, 2013 by Peter Mahoney

I’ve been working with this firm for most of 2013, they’re awesome, and really committed to their own success.

And that’s the sort of firm you want to be working for.

http://www.languagecoach.co.uk

Filed Under: General, Nerd-stream Tagged With: client, german language coach

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