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Google's Aggressive Scraper Blocking Disrupts Third-Party Rank-Tracking Tools

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Google's enhanced anti-scraping measures are blocking rank-tracking tools' ability to reliably report search rankings.

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SERoundtable reports that Google has ramped up scraper-blocking efforts over recent weeks, causing widespread disruption to third-party rank-tracking tools that depend on crawling Google Search results pages. Many SEO tools continue to struggle with accurate Google Search reporting as a result of these protections.

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