SERP link counter

bookmarklet / favlet

[RonPK]

So you've set the number of links on the Google SERP to 100, but now you find it hard to see whether you rank 74 or 75? It happened to me... That's why I wrote a simple favlet / bookmarklet to make life a bit easier.

Here it is:

<a href="javascript:var p=document.getElementsByTagName('p');var j=1;function gc(){for(i=0;i<p.length;i++){if(p[i].className=='g'){p[i].innerHTML=j+'. '+p[i].innerHTML;j++;}};};gc();">G-counter</a>

How to install:
* copy/paste it into a webpage. Make sure the script is on one line. That is everything between " and ".
* open that page in your browser
* drag the link to your Personal Toolbar (Mozilla), Personal Bar (Opera) or Links (IE).
That's all.

[Brett_Tabke]

nice

[Mr_Roberto]

Someone showed me this once - its handy (replace "widgets" with your keyword query)

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[tantalus]

Its just what I wanted for Christmas.

It is really nice.

Thanx for sharing.

I got a sneaky feeling I'm goig to need it :(

[bumpski]

Using these great tools I noticed something interesting in my first experiment. By changing the number of results I requested between 10 and 20 the result ordering was changed.
I was confused at first because I was comparing the /ie results to the /search page results and saw a difference. I was searching on the exciting topic of "septic odor". When I used num=20 I would see a different ordering than when using num=10. The result #15 would move to #2 for num=10. Turns out the /ie page and the /search page did the same thing whne the same "num=" was used. This isn't a different server issue, the results ordering changes purely based upon the number of results requested.

It appears Google is sorting results into categories and then interleaving the categories for final SERP's display; mixing things up a bit. Suppose there are 15 categories, and "widgets.com" is number one in category 12; widgets.com would not be displayed for only 10 results but makes it when num=20.
But why does widgets.com move from position 15 to number 2? The category interleave is random to some extent?

I found another case "deviated septum". When comparing results using num=5 versus num=10, result #5 disappeared at num=5. In fact as I paged (next >>), five at a time, I couldn't find this one page in the first one hundred results. So perhaps there are only seven or eight categories for this search result. So if you aren't in the first five categories you go to never, never, land in the SERPs if num=5 is used?

What I'm guessing is for a default 10 results per page search, if you're web page is not in the first 10 catergories, whatever they may be, you'll end up in never, never land in the SERPs.

The categories could be, blog, forum, .org, .edu, .gov, (or authority), .com of course, personal, even topical, etc. For example there is a Deviated Septum music reviews site, #2 in the search results for example 2. Easy to be at the top of it's category in something that is mostly a medical topic.

Well just brainstorming after playing with the tools.
Thanks