.Rank Checker: An Excellent New SEO Rank-Checking Tool
SEO Tools recently launched a superb SEO rank-tracking tool in the form of a Firefox extension. It has reduced the laborious task of checking your important SEO keywords rank from a 30-minute chore to a 1-minute quick fix.
Rank Checker allows you to build and save your SEO keyword list and then run reports on their rankings at Google, Yahoo and MSN Live any time you want. You can also export the results easily. I used to check keywords one at a time, pasting individual results into an Excel spreadsheet one cell at a time. Now in about 10 seconds I can add an entire column of results and get to the much more important task of tracking trends. Another nice feature is it displays the matching URL so I can confirm the terms are leading people to the best landing page possible.
It’s brilliant. The best part is, it was made with privacy in mind. All data travels between your local computer, the search engines’ APIs and back to your computer. Your interesting data is not being spied on, aggregated, repackaged, etc. And it’s all free. (BTW: If you haven’t heard, building good product is the new marketing.)
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Glad you found it so useful and helpful Ted :)
Disappointed at the lack of fix for result gaps between tool’s setting of pulling for first 100 Google results, vs. plain old Google search. Difference between 4 and 7 is big.
I got all excited, and then…not so much. Thanks for the link, nonetheless!
Rachel,
Don’t forget that Google serves results specific to each country. Canadians get different results than Americans than do Brits, Swiss, Kenyans, etc. It’s also true that their API is not nesc. U.S. results.
BUUUUUTTT, Rank Checker lets you explicitly select country codes. Go to Tools -> Rank Checker -> Options. As well you can select two different Google data sets to check.
Another thing to keep in mind that Google results actually do vary, even in the same country. A 5 is not always a 5 at all places in the country. So while I really like using a tool like this to track trends over time, it’s also good to test your important keywords manually.
Thanks for the response! Check.
In Rank Checker google.com is just US, right? I’m doing contrasting searching from the US (and was careful to uncheck that personalized results box…great orientation video). I get that the regional thing might be skewing results too.
For this particularly problematic query:
#8 using pagerank/ google.com/ blocking personalized
#5 when plain old googling from SF (and logged out of the googliverse)
Tricky. Will keep hand checking, and use Rank Checker too.
I may create an option for pulling 10 results per page. The reason we set it to 100 is to minimize the number of queries Google is sent.