Can Rank Checking Software Hurt Your Results?
SEO General June 8th. 2007, 9:49pmI had this brought to my attention the other day and I just can’t believe this statement to be true. When you use your favorite rank checking software to hit the search engines to see where you rank for your keywords, it can hurt your rankings. With all the request’s to the search engine to check each one of your keywords and its position is abuse on there system. The search engines in return will penalize your site for the automated checking process and not actually “clicking” on the link. I thought for a few seconds, and then said to myself what a load of crap! The only thing I can see happening is the search engine banning your IP after excessive queries in a short period of time. I am not sure if this is true and if so how long they would ban your IP for or how many queries it would take in XXXX amount of time to get a ban.
Seriously though, if using rank checking software actually did hurt your website and it’s results don’t you think for a split second the competition would be hitting the top sites on a daily basis? There are companies over sea’s who sit on dial up accounts all day long, logging on and off while clicking on sponsored listings to waste there money (click fraud). I would think then those same companies would offer a similar service using a rank checker to slam the top ranked sites and get paid for it. That is just to easy to do and that is why I believe checking your rank on the search engines for your keywords will not hurt your listing results and is just down right bogus.
