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Welcome to RankPulse! We track the Google search-rankings of 1,000 keywords; access to our results is completely free via our numerous and informative charts. Since search rankings are tweaked frequently, our database is updated daily, so please revisit us often. On this page, we have provided many ways for you to access our charts and data, so the best way to learn about this site is to start exploring. For additional information please visit our FAQ page.

RankPulse Index
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The RankPulse Index (RPI) provides an overall glimpse into the daily fluctuations of Google results. The value of the index on any given day represents the number of positions websites moved within the top ten for a particular keyword among the 1000 keywords that we track. An RPI value of 0 means that no websites changed their position from the previous day. An index value of 110,000 means that every website in the top ten of every keyword we track was replaced by new websites.

editor's notes

7 Jul 2005: according to ZDNet, google has invested in broadband over power lines (BPL).

28 Jun 2005: google has introduced google earth

3 Jun 2005: google has launched google sitemaps which allows webmasters to upload specially-constructed lists of all the pages on their sites. in theory, this will result in faster inclusion into the search engine.

4 May 2005: google has launched a web accelerator

1 May 2005: today marks the most active day in google re-ranking since we started tracking on 1 january 2004. of the 1,000 keywords that we track, 928 had at least some top-10 activity today and 193 had new number ones today. there are lots of losers today, that dropped completely out of the top 10 results (many of those from a #1 spot), but the websites websites that survived, just inched up. so, it appears that there was some sort of filter applied that was brutal for many sites, but only helped the survivors incrementally.

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today's winners
website keyword movement
en.wikipedia.org... aluminum +10
en.wikipedia.org... brace +10
www.kidshealth.org... braces +10
english.cctv.com cctv +10
www.clubpenguin.com club +10
diet.com diet +10
www.logoonline.com logo +10
en.wikipedia.org... service +10
www.travelocity.com... vacations +10
en.wikipedia.org... advertisement +9

Movement scores represent the number of ranks the given website moved today. A +9 value means that the website moved up nine spots since yesterday. Note that we do not track any movement outside of the top ten, so even if a website moved from position 18 to position 3, the movement score would be +7.

today's losers
website keyword movement
en.wikipedia.org aluminum -10
en.wikipedia.org banking -10
www.kidshealth.org braces -10
www.cctv.com cctv -10
clubpenguin.com club -10
www.diet.com diet -10
www.event1.com event -10
en.wikipedia.org painting -10
www.travelocity.com vacations -10
wiki.answers.com add -9

Movement scores represent the number of ranks the given website moved. A -3 value means that the website moved down three spots since yesterday. Note that we do not track any movement outside of the top ten, so even if a website moved from position 6 to position 12, the movement score would be -4.

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The ranking activity values listed on this table are determined by the number of changes in the top ten list for the given keyword since yesterday. If #3 and #5 replaced eachother in a search for a particular keyword (and there was no other movement in the top ten) the ranking activity score for that day would be 4 (one moved up two spots and the other moved down two spots and 2 + 2 = 4). The highest possible ranking activity score is 110 which would occur if all top ten results were replaced with new websites.

RankPulse superlatives
category winner score
least active keyword copyright average activity score of 1.4121
most active keyword event average activity score of 11.6030
most active website www.nytimes.com for automobiles average daily movement of 1.2808
most prevalent website en.wikipedia.org appears in 981 keyword results
RankPulse statistics
charts with activity today: 877
charts with new number one's today: 34
charts with a historically fixed #1: 28
charts with a historically fixed top 3: 0
charts with a historically fixed top 5 0
charts with a historically fixed top 10 0
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notes
  • The results on this website are provided by daily queries via the Google API. Thank you Google!
  • Please note that the results provided on RankPulse are based on 1000 selected keywords not the entire Google database.
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