For those of us who do training on internet search strategies, this is going to be a nightmare. I used to have one slide explaining why you can get different results from one moment to the next, now have two. I’m expecting to have to add a third! And of course people sitting next to one another in the workshop compare the results for their searches. At least it will demonstrate the extreme variability of Google results.

As for analytics, finding out who is visiting your pages and how they got there is a black art. I had a sudden huge spike in my blog stats a few weeks ago. I was about to investigate when I spotted that Roddy Macleod who produces the Internet Resources Newsletter is retiring and I got a special mention in despatches; people were clicking the link he gave to my blog.

Sigh… and now it’s snowing again – about 3/10 in RG4 but at least not as bad as in Yorkshire and Manchester.

Karen

This will have a big impact on SEO companies for sure.

How can you check what and where you rank for easily.

The caffeine update which is due i believe over christmas will provide new results again. The days are gone where everybody sees the same and trying to reproduce results is defiantely probematic.

There was a month where we were getting great traffic for the search ‘writer’. How and where ?? who knows ?? could never reproduce.