Monitoring Google position

[Carboy]

Hi Everyone
We have quite a few websites and we are doing ok in the listings for our main search terms but monitoring them all is a real ball ache , i just wondered if there was any tools or software available that i can use to keep an eye on where our sites are ranking on google, preferably to have them all in one place to check on a daily or weekly basis ?

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks C .

 

[nitro23456]

rank tracker

 

[fisicx]

Does it matter?

It's more important to analyse who is landing, from where came and what they did. That way you can put all your efforts into the bits of the business that make you money.

 

[Carboy]

rank tracker

Thanks , Any particular one ? I googled rank tracker and there seems to be loads of different ones connected to different companys and prices that go from a flat fee to so much a month .

 

[Tin]

Hi Everyone
We have quite a few websites and we are doing ok in the listings for our main search terms but monitoring them all is a real ball ache , i just wondered if there was any tools or software available that i can use to keep an eye on where our sites are ranking on google, preferably to have them all in one place to check on a daily or weekly basis ?

I use this one to check client website rankings http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/ (I presume it is the same one that Nitro suggested). It can occasionally mis-report but in the main it's very effective. They offer a freebie version which lets you check rankings but not be able to produce a report of rankings that you can publish to clients but, you can buy into the product if you need this. There's lots of online tools for this including paid ones but crikey, a lot of them persistently get it all wrong.

Note: If you do decide to go the paid way with Rank Tracker then do understand, it is a 6 month working contract for the software and then you have to renew and pay a subscription over again. To be honest, I think it's well worth it but it depends on what you need.

Hope that helps.

 

[makeusvisible]

I use this one to check client website rankings http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/ (I presume it is the same one that Nitro suggested). It can occasionally mis-report but in the main it's very effective. They offer a freebie version which lets you check rankings but not be able to produce a report of rankings that you can publish to clients but, you can buy into the product if you need this. There's lots of online tools for this including paid ones but crikey, a lot of them persistently get it all wrong.

Note: If you do decide to go the paid way with Rank Tracker then do understand, it is a 6 month working contract for the software and then you have to renew and pay a subscription over again. To be honest, I think it's well worth it but it depends on what you need.

Hope that helps.

Another vote for rank tracker from me. Very effective tool, and the latest update has made it much easier to navigate.

 

[jamhot]

try serp attacks. You can track your sites through the different google sites around the world

 

[astutiumRob]

i just wondered if there was any tools or software available that i can use to keep an eye on where our sites are ranking on google

Your web browser and the online page for checking your bank statement

Why does where you are in a specific search-engine matter ?

 

[Curious]

I use http://www.advancedwebranking.com/ for my ecommerce site.

For a free rank tracker I'd use - http://tools.seobook.com/rank-checkers/ and a spreadsheet.

 

[RadiusBPO]

Been using https://serpfox.com/ for a month now and it's fairly good. Great because you only need to log into a site to see your rankings instead of running a program locally, saves me quite some time.

 

[Carboy]

Thanks for all the recommendations guys , i will give them a try .

 

[popunder]

Just a warning, I tried http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/ after seeing it mentioned here, it worked well but on going back to do a manual search on Google I got a Captcha page and a message saying they had "detected unusual traffic from my network". All OK after going through the Captcha but not sure I'd want to run a tool that stressed Google out enough to think about blocking me.

 

[nicknell]

Hi,

We have lots of tool to increase the traffic of our site.SEO power suit is great tool for get all information and it is also useful to generate SEO report.

 

[fisicx]

Don't forget to key an eye on your Alexa ranking too

Why on earth would anyone want to do this?

 

[RevaxMedia]

Does it matter?

It's more important to analyse who is landing, from where came and what they did. That way you can put all your efforts into the bits of the business that make you money.

As above, we constantly see webmasters who are obsessed with seeing where they are ranked and they are always after that trophy phrase but Analytics can be one of the best SEO tools all together.

SEOmoz is doing a free trial for 30 days then it's $99 per month after that. You can cancel before that time and you won't be charged. Oh, and WEBCEO is good for ranking reports too.

 

[bdw]

but not sure I'd want to run a tool that stressed Google out enough to think about blocking me.

And you would be right to be concerned.

Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

 

[I, Brian]

I always use manual checks on Google.

A problem with tools is that if Google inserts a local search table, or news section, or image search, into any keyword search, your postion will get bumped down. Looking at numbers only, it looks like your site saw a drop on affected keywords, when really Google just bulked up more crap on the keyword search.

Additionally, reliability has always been a problem for trackers even without that. US vs UK results has been one traditional problem. Another sneaky one is when the software tracks datacenters by IP and Google rolls out results on new ones - meaning you could tank in the SERPs and not know it until you check your analytics.

More to the point, you get an idea of context with manual checks - which sites are ranking, for which keywords, etc. That can give you pointers on what other sites are doing right that you can emulate. It also shows the short-term players and what they use to crash and burn.

And checking rankings for a small number of keywords, better to manually check these and log these in a spreadsheet every month IMO.

Numbers are nothing without context IMO.

 

[holidays2crete]

i do it manually but i suppose an auto tracker would be useful