How to get standard search results in google?
 

When i am checking my google positions im never logged in to google.
Until several months ago google had, also for when you were not logged in, a little link called "web history", this was activated by default, but you could simply deactivate it and you would get the "real" search results. Not based on what you've clicked on before in google.
Now, the "web history" link is long gone. It seemed to me that the web history results were also gone.
A few days ago when one of my sites went from position 6 to position 1... i was happy as hell. But 1 day later i thought, hey i dont see any spike in traffic and sales, thats not normal. So i checked my site on a new laptop i bought but never used, and it was on page 2! I called my brother, and for him my site showed on position 8...

This shit is really fucking up my seo efforts, i dont have a good view anymore of what my real position is. How can i check what the real position is? Without deleting cookies or cache every day. Where can i deactivate web history - the link is completely gone but obviously they just put it in there by default and you cant turn it off anymore. :(

http://www.scroogle.org/
An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher's data being stored by Google, a Firefox plugin, and tools for webmasters.

Social search will be the death of many. Frustrating for sure.

Google is turning the net into a bunch of the same stupid popular sites it seems. Whatever happened to sharing information? Now everything is a fucking commercial.

Traffic is king for sure when it's just sites recycling the same garbage content.

I wonder where it will go in another decade...

absolutely, its like a vicious circle of relevance, with your personal relevancy space becoming smaller and smaller everytime you do a new search... not good for the broader view on things.

Harmon, thank you for that link it looks like the perfect solution, gonna try it.

i see scroogle only has the language settings. When you select dutch from google.com it gives different results than google.nl
Is there something like this, but not with language selection but really the countries' google, like google.nl?

There was an article on this recently... fb vs. google.... one fueled by friend recommendations vs. computer algorhythm and how different they are... I prefer the standard google results but yeah it isn't organic at all and might just become a thing of the past.... yikes.

so much for optimizing huh. :Oh crap

well, at least i just found out that google didnt delete the web history link, its just a little more buried now. First you have to do a search, then on the search result page click the little gear wheel in de top right, and then you have the web history link where you can disable it... dont understand why i didnt see this earlier :error

nico, try using "Private Browsing" on firefox or "Incognito window" on Chrome (ctrl+shif+N). That will give you a tab which has no cookies stored at all, so you will be able to see real positions.

scroogle or chrome incognito.

http://www.seoserp.com/web_tools/goo...ps_checker.asp also.

the game is changing, we must compete it with new sources!

thanks for the tips, i see there are plenty options left :thumbsup