Re: Huge differences in the amount of returned pages
I get the same result every time - 884,000 - and everyone in the office gets the same. I've just checked the result using a proxy server and it was 14,300,000. When i checked all the keywords using the proxy they were all a lot higher than the standard results from my IP.
I've always used the returned results number as a benchmark for how competitive a keyword is going to be. I realise that this is not a perfect system and some human discretion has to be used to properly evaluate a keywords competitiveness. The main reason im puzzled is the huge differences between results. Different data centres will give different results and i agree that they will fluctuate all the time but from 884,000 to 14,300,000!!!!??? Thats a big difference from what is supposed to be the same search. This could potentially effect what keywords i choose to target.
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