Signals in the air » SEO http://signalsintheair.com Ken Kozak's personal musings, rants, raves and digital ephemera Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:15:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to depersonalize google search results pages – SERPS http://signalsintheair.com/2009/08/03/how-to-depersonalize-google-search-results-pages-serps/ http://signalsintheair.com/2009/08/03/how-to-depersonalize-google-search-results-pages-serps/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:42:50 +0000 Ken http://signalsintheair.com/?p=96 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Google search results, by default, are designed to personalize your experience when you create a search in google. in my experience with search engine optimization, or SEO, it turns out that these personalized searches are not optimal to gauge how your websites are found in a google search.

There is a solution. According to the Facesaerch website, to depersonalize a google search result you have to type &pws=0 at the end of the web URL that is related to your search. This will turn google personalization off.

For example, here is the URL of a search for apple computers:

Google search for apple computers

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

And here is the revised search URL with the &pws=0 added:

Depersonalized google search for apple computers:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10&pws=0

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