Google Pos

Use the form below for a live preview of googlepos. Just fill in the search term and the url and press Go. The position of that url in the top 100 for the specified search term will be displayed.

downloadable files

GooglePos.zip

Source code in Python. Just add google key

Changes in Google Ranking Algorithm
by Josh Carpenter
There's been quite a shake up lately at Google pertaining to a new ranking algorithm they have implemented. Here's an article at Search Engine Watch:

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3286101

Results can change from search to search
by Simon Jones
searching for my own website at <a href="http://www.simonjones.co.uk/">www.simonjones.co.uk</a> using the search term 'Simon Jones' I often find that I am ranked either 2nd or 43rd?! I assume this is because Google may have not updated some of their servers? I'm not entirely sure. But while GooglePos is showing me 43rd, my own search using google shows me at the #2 spot?

Chaning positions
by Douwe Osinga
So it seems. The server GooglePos runs on, sits in Chicago. I work from Amsterdam and I often get totally different results.

googlepos.py
by kevin
I guess I'm a moron, because I:

1. downloaded python
2. downloaded the googlepos.py script
3. typed in "python googlepos.py savvyfinancial.com "life insurance"

and I kept getting syntax errors. the first of which was the arrow pointing to the "s" before the .py and when that went away (don't know how) the little arrow came up at the "l" before .com in domain.

Is this something I'm doing wrong? I have the 2.3 version of python....

Syntax Error
by Douwe Osinga
Be sure to have a valid Google Key, otherwise you'll get an error.

Hi Douwe
by Kevin
I confirmed my key with Google and it is correct. I am still getting those errors?
Let me make sure I have everything:

1. I downloaded the .zip file. In that file there are 6 files:
1.1 - Google (green dragon icon)
1.2 - Google (red dragon icon)
1.3 - Google key text file (inserted my own google key and saved)
1.4 - GooglePos file (green dragon icon)
1.5 - SOAP file (green dragon icon)
1.6 - SOAP file (red dragon icon)

2. If I click (or double click) on the GooglePos icon, it opens the python program and closes immediately. As a matter of fact it does that on all the dragon icons.

3. So I opened python (command line) and typed in exactly what you have on your page "python googlepos.py domain.com search term and I get a whole bunch of errors.

So my questions are:

1. Why does the application open and close immediately when I click on the GooglePos icon? By the way, I deleted the whole file and downloaded it again just to make sure I have a clean copy.
2. Can I open python (command line) and type in the example you have shown? If so, using my information, how exactly should I type it in? my domain is www.savvyfinancial.com and the search term(s) is term life insurance.

Thanks Douwe, I appreciate your help...

Kevin

fluctuation
by john williams
My ranking fluctuates daily by as much as twenty places. Does anybody know why this is?

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by aku_cklt
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Having problems? You Must install Python
by Eric Campbell
As far as your error messages go, it sounds like you're trying to use DOS or the Run line in windows.

My guess is that you don't have Python installed -- go here:

http://www.python.org/download/

Install & enjoy;-)

Oh boy - ignore most of that last post
by Eric Campbell
Just re-read your post Kevin, and my post is completely off base

as far as your disappearing dos window, open the command prompt first (so it won't disappear) and then enter your command -- note that in xp (and maybe 2000) you can drag a path name (drag the googlepos.py into the command line window and it will automatically put the path in for you...

Google POS- is there a Google List?
by Steve
Google POS show the relative position of a website based on a key word, is there a way to see the entire list for a given keyword?

That was so rude!
by jojo
That was so rude! I hope you can delete that post.

Hi, something seems broken.
by Jakub Jiricek
I got the result:
In the Google top-100 for the term "pochva", the url "www.robertnemec.com" has position 1
but it is 6 in a normal search.
Or is it using some additional filter?
Jakub

Ranking of Items
by Mark
Cool item! I was amazed out how a single letter change can make a difference.

html at the end came in number 1
htm at the end came in number 6

Odd results
by Simon
I know that this has probably been answered here before, but I seem to be getting strange results here.

I have tried a simple test to find where the domian club18-30.com comes on Google for the keyword "Club 18-30". On the GooglePos tool it comes out at 33, but when I actually go to Google.co.uk or Google.com it is always the first result.

Does the Google API look at slightly different databases than the main websites? Or can these difference be explained some other way?

Thanks for your help

search for a site
by abhi
Hi,
I tried to search for my website - http://naturesnaps.blogspot.com/ with a few of the keywords I have put in my meta tags.

Google has still not listed my site. Howevre your script shows me the site at 1.

Huh?
by huh
there might be one problem with this engine, google.com comes up as #70 when looking up google

"Google.com" is "72" for the term: google
by Mark Kishbaugh
OK - so I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer -- but when I use your tool for the keyword: google and specify the site: Google.com I find they are in position "72" !!!

I get a very foul taste that this tool is also not the sharpest knife.

Thoughts???

Wrong results.
by niki
The results are wrong

google search engine
by
In the Google top-100 for the term "search engine", the url "google.com" has position 95

Wow...
by JDBar
Hey! It works! I Googled my website... it was the third (and last) one on the list... then I asked this thing:

In the Google top-100 for the term "dbp.wetpaint.com", the url "dbp.wetpaint.com" has position 3

Cool... but why is my website 3rd? wtf

Google
by Mart
search for:
good - www.google.com posistion 100
evil - www.google.com posistion 99

hmm...

Google does not provide longer provide keys for SOAP search APIs
by jez
Hi,

After reading the installation instructions, I tried to get a Google API Key, but found out that Google does not longer issues SOAP API keys. Instead they recommend the use of AJAX Search API key.

Short story: I generated the key using the AJAX Search API and saved it googlekey file, when I executed the command line I got an invalid authorization key for from the googlepos.py application.

Is there any work around?

Doesn't work
by Beko Ergo
This thing doesn't work... I alwyas get the same ranking for different keywords. I even entered couple of keywords that do not exist on my site, and still it gave me the same result...

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by
this site is being shut down because google got ticked off and sewed them under copyright laws. sucks but soon this site will be down and google hacks are done