{"id":26,"date":"2008-10-20T00:54:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T04:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowseo.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T14:15:36","slug":"rank-checking-tools-blocked-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowseo.com\/blog\/seo-news\/rank-checking-tools-blocked-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Rank checking tools blocked by Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-216 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rank-checking-blocked-by-google.jpg\" alt=\"rank-checking-blocked-by-google\" width=\"276\" height=\"254\" \/>Most people don&#8217;t know the sordid history of automated query tools with Google.<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana; color: #000000;\">WebPosition Gold and Google- The SAGA: <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana; color: #000000;\">Penalize you for using web position gold: (April 2003)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum3\/12118.htm \" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum3\/12118.htm<br \/>\n<\/a>Google and position checking software: (Jan 2003)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum3\/8573.htm \" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum3\/8573.htm <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nWhats the status of Google vs WPG Users? (July 2002)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum5\/1231.htm \" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum5\/1231.htm<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nWhat exactly gets banned using WebPositionGold; (June 2004)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum5\/4799.htm \" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum5\/4799.htm<\/a><br \/>\nWeb Position Gold &amp; Google IP bans (May 2009)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum39\/3337.htm \" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum39\/3337.htm <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the way, it isn&#8217;t just web position gold.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that <strong>every rank checking tool<\/strong> out there has been affected by this.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a number of people who think it&#8217;s silly for Google to be blocking access to rank checkers.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;m pretty sure I know why they are doing it now.\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"Rank Checkers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowseo.com\/online_tools\/\" target=\"_self\">Rank Checkers<\/a> have a huge impact on &#8220;impressions&#8221; and skew the search data significantly.\u00c2\u00a0 As Google uses this data more and more, they have a strong motivation to make sure their impression data is more accurate for search results.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow I didn&#8217;t realize the extent to how serious Google was about this until I started coding up a tool to do better rank checking and was very confused because code I wrote a few months ago started to break.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought Google changed the web page and they changed the web page.\u00c2\u00a0 But it wasn&#8217;t for everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 They changed it ONLY for wget.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically, they removed the rank data from the link just for my wget requests.\u00c2\u00a0 EVIL.\u00c2\u00a0 I mimiced a real request and sure enough, the rank data came back in.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty crazy stuff.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/googleerror.jpg\" alt=\"googleerror\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t know the sordid history of automated query tools with Google. 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