Different results on different browsers

Marketing
1

hi

my website is:
#2 on ie
#2 on chrome
#2 on opera
#27 on ff
#27 on safari

any explanation?
how could that be???

is it fixable?

and most important, how do i make it #2 on ff too (and not #27 on ie) ?

thanks

lenny

2

There’s another variable in the mix. The search results from Google (which is the search engine I’m assuming you’re referring to) don’t change based on the browser. The results are generated server side and then sent to the browser. The same results will be sent regardless of the browser.

Here are some things to check:

  • Are you logged into Google on any of those browsers? If so, this is most definitely affecting your search results. Be sure to log out first.
  • Are you querying the same Google data center? If I do a search in California and another person in New York does the same search at exactly the same time, we’ll see different results because we’re each accessing different datacenters.
  • Are you using the exact same search query? Adding an extra space or seemingly useless character will change the search results.
  • Are you doing the searches within a few minutes of each other? The results are changing every minute.
3

i’m referring to google.

on ie. logged in i get #2
logged out i get #27

how come?
why?

4

You’re seeing different results because when you’re logged in Google is customizing the search results based on your browsing/searching preferences. For instance, if you repeatedly search for information on dogs then Google will probably show more results related to dogs when you search for a similar topic.

Most, if not all, Google services you use will collect information and that information will be used to filter your search results. If you use Google Voice and repeatedly make and receive phone calls from New York then your search results might be tailored to New York.

As this is the case, we can’t accurately determine what your clients are seeing when they search for your website. However, you can always log out of Google and see what the default results are.

5

One of the reasons for logging in is so that Google can personalise your search results and give you the ones that it thinks will be most useful to you at the top. If it knows that you have searched for that term a lot and followed links to those pages, and visited that site a lot, it’s a good bet that you might want that site again, so it moves it up the list. But if it doesn’t know who you are, it doesn’t have any record of your browsing history, so it puts the page at its natural place in the rankings.

You need to be concerned about where your page is listed when you are not logged in, because that is much closer to what most people will see.

6

u just target your website in google because most of the search engine follow the google algorithm .

7

you just can delete the cookies then try out… you can correct this error after that.

8

I agree with Hyperbolik, Search result doesn’t change from browser to browser, it might be a case of location. Possibly result you are getting in Firefox is from default Google and in IE result is from your country location/datacenters.

9

hi guys

Hyperbolik gave me the right answer.
when i’m logged in to google it adjusts the results according to my surfing hystory (personalized results)

but … ! also if i’m not loggedin it gives me results according to my surfing history.

do youeself a favour and watch this amazing video from googleblog.

googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/…-everyone.html
(it’s a url, i can’t make links)

what it means is that when i went to an seo expert and he showd me his sites all on fiest places, it was on HIS computer.
on my computer he is not on the million results.

as with my site, on my computer.
it’s natural place is #27 (for a given keyword), only i see it on #2 when logged in.
when i logout - my site moves to #27.

thanks

lenny

10

You definitely have to log out to get a good picture of your position.

However, another good test is to ask someone else to check from their own PC for you. This certainly gives an accurate picture cos this person has no surfing history of your site, hence result would be influenced. e.g. you can ask a neutral person on this forum to check from their end as a small favour and of cos u can return the favour by helping them check their own site position on from your end

11

It can also vary depending on which of Google’s hundreds of servers you pick up the results from since not every request goes to the same server and not all servers hold the same results (since it takes time to update them all with each change sites often can be found at two different spots in the results depending on which server you look at).

12

Never heard of this happening before, very unusual.