Keyword tracking software?

[Dymo King]

Hi,

Can someone suggest some software for tracking the rankings of our sites for given keywords?

I'm aware of a few, but I'm also aware that google traditionally doesn't like this kind of software hitting it's search engine (even with the random delays etc)

There used to be some sort of google key that could be used to do this with their permission but I'm not sure if this is still around?

So is there a way to do this without annoying google, and if so how do I do it and what software is best?

Thanks.

 

[SBOnline]

Hi Dymo,

If you search google for "keyword tools" or similar you should find some online tools that you can use.

But to be honest, I check the rank of my keywords manually as these tools can be inaccurate.

All the best.

 

[RedEvo]

Take a look at SEMRush

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[Paul Dean]

Try <AFFILIATE LINK REMOVED BY MOD> (free initial report).

 

[webtriangle]

Can anyone also tell how to track highly convertible keywords? Are there any tools for this purpose?

 

[coolfogdaisyliu]

SEO can help you rank on the top 10, however you should buy the sofeware and service first .

 

[Andy777]

Free & very easy to use:

http://www.traffictravis.com/

 

[takerootdesign]

My personal preference is the SEO Book Rank Tracker. I've been using this and an Excel Spreadsheet and it works pretty well for me. You can save keyword lists and schedule them to run automatically. You can also export them as a .csv to easily import into Excel.

 

[designer12]

Hi,

I have a doubt. Are third party softwares compatible with Google. I thought the search engine imposed a penalty for using anything other than Google Adwords.

 

[paulypops]

Hi i use seo powersuite (cant post link as fairly new here) you can set it up to use the google api, so as not to break there terms and conditions, though they do have a limit of searches you can do in a day, it will also do the same for yahoo, i have found this by far the best tool so far, i tried quite a few others and they tended to use google.com or google.co.uk (pages from the uk) rather than where most of my searches come from which is google.co.uk(the web) its not cheap, but its a buy once bit of software, with lifetime upgrades, so i hope a google search gets you to it.

 

[Dymo King]

hmmm.... I just looked at seo powersuite, specifically the "Waving good-bye to Google SOAP API key" page, and it pretty much seems to be saying "yes, you can go the (new ajax) api route and be blessed by google, or you can just use our human emulation software to sneak around googles restrictions"... so it seems a bit dodgy to me.

 

[qqkiwi]

Very good, learning, thanks.

 

[paulypops]

Yes there are two modes in seo powersuite, one where you use the google api, and are restricted to i think 50 searches a day, and then there is the human emulation way, i have never done it this way, as i am only checking on 40 keyword phrases for my business, so nothing dodgy happening here!

 

[channs]

I'm with the rank checker brigade. I also tend to sense check it with a few straight google searches (there are small discrepancies between the rankcheckker results and the actual results of google on the same day!)

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[hetal]

IBP software -- IBP Software gets 100% accurate results because it gets exactly the same results as a human web surfer...

 

[jackysouer]

have u used that?

 

[headshotlondon]

SEOMoz is really good but it is not free as well as IBP

 

[paulypops]

I tried Seomoz, thought some of the tools were great and always read the blogs and white papers, but found the ranking tool a little limited, as in it only checked once a week, also found 100$ a month a little pricey, but might revisit in time, as they seem to be releasing quite a few upgrades in the near future.