Show ranks for Blue Links only
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Nikolay Tchernev
With rapidly changing SERPs the “classical” blue link rank is getting way more valid than the mixed one. Read: the only thing a publisher can affect with SEO tasks. Example: a keyword ranks on position 4 mixed rank is actually ranking on pos. 1. The reason for nr. 4 is "just": 1. shopping, 2. knowledge panel, 3. people also ask... Google's search features a publisher can´t change!
Fedor Fokin
Merged in a post:
Report "true" organic position, excluding SERP features from the position count
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Ben Dracup
Please add an option in Rank Tracker to report a keyword's true organic position, meaning its rank among traditional organic (blue link) results only, ignoring SERP features such as AI Overviews, People Also Ask, Shopping results, and featured snippets.
Currently these features count as positions. A page that's #1 in the organic results can be reported as position 3 or lower once an AI Overview and PAA box sit above it. For agencies this is a real problem: we want to tell a client "you rank #1 organically," but the Ahrefs figure doesn't reflect that, so we have to manually check each SERP to get accurate numbers.
The existing SERP features filter doesn't solve this. "Don't include" excludes keywords whose SERPs contain those features rather than reporting the organic-only position for them, and with AI Overviews and PAA on most SERPs now, that removes most of the keyword set. "Main positions only" still counts the features above you in the position number.
A simple toggle ("count organic results only" vs "count all SERP features"), or a separate "organic position" column alongside the current one, would solve this. Ideally it would apply across the Rank Tracker overview, Share of Voice, and report exports.
Related but narrower existing requests: "AI Overview rankings vs actual SERP visibility" and "AI Overviews Tracking". This request covers all SERP features, not just AI Overviews.
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Ben Dracup
Fedor Fokin Hi Fedor, is there still no update on this? Our agency is currently having to pay for a dedicated rank tracker from another company just for this specific feature, it would be fantastic if it could be implemented
Fedor Fokin
Ben Dracup: Hi Ben, thanks for following up! Still not planned for now I'm afraid.
Gaspard Maldonado
Fedor Fokin Hello Fedor, I saw you merged this proposal with another one, are you guys planning to implement it ?
Fedor Fokin
Gaspard Maldonado Hi Gaspard, this isn’t planned at the moment, but it’s a popular request, so we’ll likely revisit it in the future and possibly add it to the roadmap. If that happens, I’ll update the status here to Planned.
Fedor Fokin
Merged in a post:
Option to Ignore SERP Features for Position
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Jamie Smith
Add an option to ignore SERP features as positions.
For example, in the current position tracking if your webpage is the very first "organic blue link", but there happens to be a map pack and People Also Ask feature above you, ahref's will say you're ranked #3.
This is very annoying as I have to manually click the SERP button to double check whether my client is actually ranking #3 or if ahrefs is just counting the SERP features. This manual checking across many keywords really defeats the purpose of using the rank tracker.
It's also annoying to see a keyword drop one or two positions in ahrefs, only to check the SERP and find out the position didn't drop, it's just Google added SERP features.
An OPTION to not count these SERP features in the final position metric would be very helpful.
Gaspard Maldonado
Hello again ! It's been 3 years... With more and more search features actually eating up organic positions, it's a no brainer to have this possibility of filtering those. Just add the possibility to show pixel position and actual organic position, it's sad to present reports with red numbers when the actual positions above us are PAA, Local Map or Ads. It also makes the analysis way more difficult instead of having the possibility to focus on keywords on which we have actually real competitors above and not Google features,le features which can't be outranked. There's 33 Upvotes here and more than 13 comments, what's going on?
ALPLA Group
This is a very helpful suggestion indeed. Ranking and SERP features should not compete with each other. Because you are not actually dropping.
Gaspard Maldonado
Hello ! It's been almost 2 years since this request has been created. It's a very easy feature to implement and it really help us, consultants, to provide useful data to our clients when it comes to understanding why certains pages lost traffic. If the pixel positions dropped but not the actual organic position, then we can't do much, we're not going to outrank Google features. Please, make it happen, so many tools are already providing this for good reasons!
Jonás O
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Gaspard Maldonado
Up! A lot of tools are already providing this
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Dawid Soboczyński
And it's very annoying in reports for clients, they see 3 position, when it's in SERP website nr 1. Please make this feature!
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