If not, do I need to follow previous statement above? I just want to avoid any problems.

It depends whether you use it correctly and sensibly. Car manufacuturers can't guarantee you won't get booked for speeding. You are the "driver" of WPG. Use it sensibly and according to WPG guidelines you should be OK.

Note that Google has indicated that checking after midnight US Pacific Coast time places less pressure on their servers.

Not saying that they can detect WPG or any other software. Just that if you use it on Google, you're doing so at your own risk.

Both OAC and WebWhiz are correct. Google states that they do not approve of any automated queries. In interviews they have contradicted themselves on this. However, you must realize that as long as they state that they do not approve of automated queries there is a risk of having your searches banned.

That being said you are indeed the driver of WPG and using 2.0s new speed features will greatly reduce the chances of Google banning your ability to search their site, depending on how responsibly you use it.

In that case, seo that need to produce on a daily basis several large ranking reports for clients and prospects should not use webposition.

Other software like agentwebranking or topdog (?) claim that google cannot detect it. What is your experience whith these software?

Google can't detect thousands of searches each day from a single IP? I don't think so.

It doesn't matter whether you use AWR, WPG, TD or Uncle Tom Cobbly's software - if you perform lots of ranking checks each day, Google will know. End of story.

You are the driver. None of the above "cars" is going to stop you being booked for speeding. If you use any of these programs excessively (as defined by the SE) you will get pinged.

If I understand this correctly you are saying that you check a particular client's ranking on Google everyday. Is that what you are saying?

If it is, I ask the question if Google updates one per month, what is the point of running the check every day?

What if i run reporter and sumbiter everday but for different clients. May be 5 clients a day. That way i am not querying the SEs for the same URL instead different domain altogether. Does that harm?

Now this sound really funny but i just cant locate the Webpositiongold version 2 on its site.

Can someone please provide the URL?

Thanks in advance.

I don't know how much clearer we can be about this issue. If you abuse the SE by making too many queries, as determined by the appropriate search engine (and, in particular, Google), then you will be penalized. In the case of Google, they ban querying from your IP address.

Google won't care which site is the subject of the queries. They will care about the quantity of the queries from your IP address.

In regard to the search OAC is right on.

Regarding the URL please email us at help@webposition.com with your request and we will provide it for you.

You said about Google (posted 05-03-2002):

"Each cycle is approximately 4 weeks."

However, I checked manually along a day what would happen between a blog of news and Google database. Google took all the news, sometimes with only one hour between two of them.

How do you explain it? Or did you only say that Google adjusts the rankings, that would be different from to pass on sites and blogs?

Thanks in advance.

For a very high percentage of sites (say 90%, but this is my guesstimate) Google updates them on an approx 4 week cycle.

However, for certain high relevance sites which contain very regular updates, Google respiders and reindexes daily or more often than that.