The Results Sheet is the workbook tab that holds the ranked set of pages RankGear analyzed for a run — the source data every score and comparison in the report is built from.
| Term | Results Sheet |
|---|---|
| Category | Reports, Workbooks and Exports |
| Also known as | Results |
| Where it appears | Workbook Results |
What it means in RankGear
When an analysis finishes, RankGear writes its findings to a workbook, and the Results Sheet is the tab that lists the competing pages it pulled from the SERP and measured. Each row is one result in the ranked set, ordered by its position, and the columns carry the values RankGear read for that page. Every other view in the workbook — the summaries, the factor breakdowns, the companion HTML reports — reads from this sheet, so it is the underlying record of what was measured rather than a separate interpretation of it.
How to interpret it
Start at the top of the sheet, where the opening summary and legend explain what the columns mean, then work down into the ranked rows and out to the supporting sheets or report sections they reference. Read the sheet as the source of the numbers, not as advice: it tells you what each page scored, while the recommendation views tell you what to do about it. When you share the workbook, keep the run metadata intact so a reader can see the keyword, location, and settings the result set came from.
Example
You run an analysis for a target keyword and open the workbook. The Results Sheet lists the top-ranking pages RankGear pulled, one per row, with position 1 at the top and your own page marked among them. From here you can trace any figure in the summary back to the exact page it came from, and you can generate the HTML companion reports without altering a single measured value on the sheet.
Important considerations
- The Results Sheet is a snapshot of one run; the ranked set reflects the SERP at the time and place the analysis executed, and a later run can return different pages in a different order.
- Compare like with like — two Results Sheets are only comparable when the keyword, location, provider, and settings match.
- The values on the sheet are comparative measurements across the results collected, not Google ranking scores; a high or low figure describes the page, it does not explain why the page ranks.
- Formatting is presentation, not evidence — read the numbers, and treat the styling as a way to find them faster, nothing more.
Related terms
Part of the RankGear glossary · how RankGear measures · the 870 factors.