Comments on: Web Position Gold and the Keyword Visibility Index http://www.stepforth.com/blog/2009/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ross Dunnhttp://www.stepforth.com/blog/2009/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index/comment-page-1/#comment-3869 Ross Dunn Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:19:55 +0000 http://dev.stepforth.com/blog/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index.php#comment-3869 Honestly Alissa, I wouldn't pay attention to it at all. Focus more on your analytics reports and watch how your traffic ebbs and flows and how well visitors convert on your website. If you focused more on the visitors and how to convert the ones you received already you would probably be a lot more successful. This is especially true since today's web ranking reporting does not do a good job of providing ranking results from other locales; an important statistic since your ranking is likely different depending on where someone searches from and their browsing history (which is impossible to duplicate). Honestly Alissa, I wouldn’t pay attention to it at all. Focus more on your analytics reports and watch how your traffic ebbs and flows and how well visitors convert on your website. If you focused more on the visitors and how to convert the ones you received already you would probably be a lot more successful. This is especially true since today’s web ranking reporting does not do a good job of providing ranking results from other locales; an important statistic since your ranking is likely different depending on where someone searches from and their browsing history (which is impossible to duplicate).

]]> By: Alissa M.http://www.stepforth.com/blog/2009/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index/comment-page-1/#comment-3826 Alissa M. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:29:41 +0000 http://dev.stepforth.com/blog/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index.php#comment-3826 I understand that in a perfect world I should be shooting for 100% every month, but realistically, where should I expect this number to be? I understand that in a perfect world I should be shooting for 100% every month, but realistically, where should I expect this number to be?

]]> By: Scott Van Achtehttp://www.stepforth.com/blog/2009/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index/comment-page-1/#comment-2148 Scott Van Achte Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:18:00 +0000 http://dev.stepforth.com/blog/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index.php#comment-2148 I agree with you that the usefulness of these position reports has declined, however, even with personalized search, most rankings will be very similar, especially if the logged in user has not done a that same search before. These reports are still a good general guide to see how an optimization campaign is coming along.<br/><br/>On that same note, I would love to see what percentage of searchers are actually logged in, I am willing to bet that they are still in the minority. I agree with you that the usefulness of these position reports has declined, however, even with personalized search, most rankings will be very similar, especially if the logged in user has not done a that same search before. These reports are still a good general guide to see how an optimization campaign is coming along.

On that same note, I would love to see what percentage of searchers are actually logged in, I am willing to bet that they are still in the minority.

]]> By: aimClearhttp://www.stepforth.com/blog/2009/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index/comment-page-1/#comment-2147 aimClear Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:13:00 +0000 http://dev.stepforth.com/blog/web-position-gold-and-the-keyword-visibility-index.php#comment-2147 I gave up on WP reacting to personalized search a while ago. The only true measure of organic prominence is percentage of market share WW inventory (monthly searches) / traffic. <br/><br/>http://www.aimclearblog.com/2007/06/11/google-makes-it-official-webposition-gold-is-dead/<br/><br/>I appreciate the post and bless you it was great when we could actually measure organic prominence by this method. Those days are over :) I gave up on WP reacting to personalized search a while ago. The only true measure of organic prominence is percentage of market share WW inventory (monthly searches) / traffic.

http://www.aimclearblog.com/2007/06/11/google-makes-it-official-webposition-gold-is-dead/

I appreciate the post and bless you it was great when we could actually measure organic prominence by this method. Those days are over :)

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