Google has made changes that affect Rank Tracking

On October 27th 2017 google made changes that will affect rank tracking in Scrapebox Rank Tracker, if you are tracking google ranks.

The basics is that Google used to let you input any google you want, like google.co.uk or google.fr and it would give you results from that google. So if you used google.co.uk you get UK results and google.fr would give you results from France, including local results.

That is no longer the case. Google now gives you results based on the geo location of your IP, REGARDLESS of what google you choose.

So if your IP is in Paris, France and you go to google.com and type in food. You will now get results from Paris, France. If you go to google.co.uk, you will still get results from Paris France.

So the google you choose is irrelevant now, they are only returning results from the ip you choose. So you can go to any google around the world and get the same results.

You can read more about it here:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16561848/google-search-always-local-results-ignores-domain

and

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/AzcsFmuFPEg/discussion

What this means for Rank Tracking

While you can still manually adjust your location results in a browser, this uses javascript. Scrapebox uses raw sockets and threads, as these provide many advantages, however they do not support javascript.

So the only way to get localized results in the Scrapebox Rank Tracker, is to use an IP from the local you want.

So if you want French results you need a IP from France, if you want German Results you need an ip from Germany etc..

Yes I agree, google is just making it more and more difficult for all of us.

Proxies

I have had some people ask where they can get various ips from specific countries. I wrote up a review of a service that generally can give you fixed ips from a given country (as long as they have ips from that country) and they have a lot of different countries.

The ips stay fixed for the life that you pay for them. Meaning if you buy them and keep paying for 10 months you keep the same ip for 10 months. So once you set it up you don't have to keep messing around with it. For the private proxies you "can" request a new ip every 30 days, but by default the ips stay fixed.

I also asked them to make a discount for my readers and they did. Further note, this is a good discount, which is why this is NOT an affiliate link:

http://scrapeboxfaq.com/squid-scrapebox-proxies-review-and-information

Discount Code: loopline20

 

How to use

Unfortunately the below applies to Scrapebox for Windows Only, this method will Not work on the mac version of Scrapebox, due to how mac works.

If you are wondering how to make rank tracker use different ips for different projects, there is no way to do that specifically in Rank Tracker.

So the way you would do it is to simply run multiple instances of it.

So say you want to rank track from 3 different countries. You setup 3 different scrapebox folders, 1 for each country.

Install rank tracker in each of them and then setup a given countries project(s) in that. So we could do

Google France

Google USA

Google Germany

Setup a folder for each and then in the rank tracker that is attached to the Google France one, you put in the French IP(s).

For the Google USA, you put in the USA ips and for the google Germany put in the German ips.

Then when you run each, it will be using its own ips. Here is a video on how to setup more then 1 instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZzdE6ybu38