Hi,

Right in a post I made before about a sites serp dropping someone mentioned using a proxy to do any manual serp search reports so...

Has anyone got any good safe proxies that can be used alot? ie we have about 15 sites + some mini sites to check now and then, all with a lot of keywords to be checked.

Thanks in advance!

I find that checking the SERPs from a PHP script on a VPS has always yielded sensible results and has never been banned.

Downsides
- paying for another server
- constantly rewriting scrips to keep up with googles changing html

To check your site’s google positions from the different country/geographic area people used to (ab)use proxies and VPNs. There is a little known feature in Google Adwords that lets and advertiser test whether his/her ad is running under a certain keyword. The great thing about it is the ability to choose precise geographic area to view results from and it gives you natural search results as seen from this area. What the tool does, is very simple. It adds

&adtest=on

]to the google query string to snap it to the adtest mode. The gl= and gr= variables specify geographic targetting.

If you want to see what pops up for query “blue widgets” in California, you’d use:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en& … p;gr=US-CA

To get possible values for gl and gr variables, go to Adwords->Tools->Ad DIagnostic Results and examine the url query for your target market.