makinbuckz
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Can anyone confirm that if you check your sites rank too much, that G will penalize your ranking?
Penalized for checking rank?
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elikplim442
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That can't be true because i check my rankings each and every morning even before i go to sleep in the evening 
makinbuckz
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What do you use to check?
starcity83
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I was afraid to check it too often for this reason also. I hope it's not true.
BombaRuLz
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That can't be true because i check my rankings each and every morning even before i go to sleep in the evening
Same here
Best get checking my competitors ranking then eh ;-)
starcity83
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Good point!
thinkdevoid
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Yeah... I check multiple sites multiple times daily now. I don't see any negative impact. I use Market Samurai. I don't think you have to worry much about this one.
skohh
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- Sep 27, 2010
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that's not true, one of my hobbies is watching water boil.
larrydozier
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They dont penalize for that...I check mine all the time
GreyWolf
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That wouldn't even be possible. It's amazing the types of myths that get started sometimes.
The way your serp ranking is checked is to just do a search for a keyword and then page through results till you see where your site is ranked. That's true whether you're doing that yourself manually (lol, what a pain that would be), or using a serp rank checking tool. (The way the serp checker tools work is they do the search and then parse through the results till the find your site. The search for a keyword is done on google, sorting through the results though is done by the serp checker tool.)
So only the keyword phrase is passed to google. There's no way for google to penalize you for checking a sites serp position too much because the actual site is never passed to google for the search.
One thing that can happen though, if you manually check your sites position a lot by doing a search yourself (and then click on your site when you find it), is Google will start customizing the results for you. Basically that means when you do that search Google will start moving the site up in the serps (for you only), but for everyone else the sites position will still be farther down in the serps. That's one of the reasons it's better to just use a serp checking tool. The tool will check the real position of your site for people who have never visited your site before.
I also have problems with my site, i had PR3 and now i have N / A
That's probably only because Google changed the servers that get used to check page rank. For a few days while they were making the switch everyone was showing up as n/a.
tylerdale80
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I don't think checking serps will cause any problem for your sites. When you check your rank with ranking software they usually list 100 sites per page for google. it will be hard for google to know which site is yours out of the 100. Even if it is 10 sites per page, there are still 9 other sites.
