Recent content by Paul Stevens

This is a very useful tool. Much appreciated. Once I used the additional option of adding a city, I got results that looked much better. I would recommend this to anyone who does search marketing research. As well as the tip above regarding mobile search vs desktop.

Thanks Joy. I was trying to get an untarnished look at search results without my previous searches influencing Googles offering. Your suggestion got me looking at my phone search options. I didn't realize I could choose "use without an account" on my Android phone, simply by clicking on my...

Thanks for this resource. I will follow up.

I've included a couple of recent screenshots from an Incognito search on Google using a Chrome browser. Note the searches. I have since gone back and tend to get wildly varying results. Sometimes they make sense, some times, not so much. Sometimes results are within a 30 mile radius or...

I did specify a particular town. That is what surprised me when I got a result from so far away. There were undoubtedly 100 results closer. I just tried it in Incognito Mode with Chrome using "Maps" and using "Near Havelock Ontario" as the modifier and still got one local result and then others...

I was recently checking the competition in a niche so I entered, in the Google search field, "type of business" + town + Ontario. When the standard Google 3-pack search page came up I found my clients business sandwiched between two other businesses from over 120 miles away. These businesses...