Option to Ignore SERP Features for Position | Voters

Option to Ignore SERP Features for Position

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.

July 19, 2022

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!

Fedor Fokin

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You can exclude positions in Sitelinks, Top stories, Image packs, and Tweets using the "Main positions only" filter:

Dev Govindjee

Fedor Fokin this has nothing to do with our request fedor. We’re talking about local pack, PAA boxes and other features that are taken into account regarding « position ». Today, If I’m first on a query but google decides to rank a PAA box above me, ahref will tell me that I’m 2nd and lost 1 position. This is what we request, to be able to see the ranking changes without the serp features listed being considered as organic positions

Fedor Fokin

Dev Govindjee: oh, right, I mixed it up with another popular request. Bringing this one back. Thanks for letting me know!

Jonás O

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Gaspard Maldonado

Up! A lot of tools are already providing this

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!

Philip Jönsson

This is a feature we definitely need. Please prioritize this function.

Hannes Wåhlin

This is something we really need as well, the reporting becomes misleading with all the serp features...

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