Advice and answers from the Advanced Web Ranking Team
Google search engine monitoring preferences
Learn how to configure the Google search engine settings based on the types of results you want to track.
AWR enables you to have full control over the type of search results to be retrieved from Google with an in-depth customization level of the monitoring options.
Country - enables you to select the country from which the ranking data should be retrieved from.
Search engine - allows selecting the search engine that will be queried using the keywords added to the project.
Device - allows retrieving the rankings for searches performed on Desktop, respectively on Mobile devices.
Search type - a Google search engine can be defined to either track ranking positions from a regular web search (All) or only on specific verticals such as Images, Videos, Maps, Shopping, News, or Jobs.
SERP features - when defining the search engine to track pages from Google’s regular web search network, you can select which type of results from SERPs should be considered when computing the ranking positions.
Universal - all types of web search results (except Ads) from Desktop, respectively Mobile SERPs are being considered. When tracking a Universal search engine any URL on which a searcher can click is considered as being a competitor and counted when computing the ranking position. Featured Snippets, Local 3-Pack, desktop Local Knowledge, mobile AMP results, and other types of results returned for Desktop, respectively Mobile searches are captured using the Universal search engine.
Organic - both the Featured Snippets and the Organic entries from regular web search pages are being considered. When tracking an Organic search engine, the other types of results displayed in SERPs are being ignored when computing the ranking position of an URL.
Organic and Places - both Organic and Local 3-Pack listings from regular web search pages are being tracked.
Places - only the listings from Google’s Local 3-Pack box are being considered.
Sponsored - only Paid search results are being returned.
For more details on how to set up AWR to track the most relevant results for your business, you can also check the Explore Google search preferences video tutorial.
Location - allows retrieving the rankings either for a specific country by leaving the search engine to anywhere or to narrow the ranking process down to a region or even a zip code when selecting the custom location option.
Language - allows you to filter the search results and retrieve the rankings only from searches performed in the language selected.
After inserting a Google search engine into the project, the monitoring preferences can no longer be edited back from the user end.
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