How Do You Keep Track of Keyword Rankings?

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December 27, 2007

How Do You Keep Track of Keyword Rankings?

When you do your keyword research, my bet is that you may have tens or hundreds of keywords to choose from. How do you keep track of it and monitor your rankings? A High Rankings Forum thread asks this question.

One member still uses the old-fashioned pen and paper tool. I've seen most people use an Excel spreadsheet, and one member at the forum suggests that.

Do you know of any current programs that monitor your rankings for keywords? I know there are some that used to take the Google Search API key, but unfortunately it's been over a year since that has been discontinued by Google. (Can you bring it back, please, Google?) :)

Forum discussion continues at High Rankings Forums.

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posted Tamar Weinberg in Keyword Research at December 27, 2007 9:40 AM Comments (12)

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I use WebCEO for everything. Keyword tracking and ranking, backlink analysis, competitive analysis, you can even update your site from within the program. The software is extremely versatile and I've been a loyal user for over a year. More info here: http://www.squareoak.com/webceo-keyword-ranking-software

Posted by Brendan Picha at December 27, 2007 11:35

I'm another one that uses Excel for this. And about one million other things. :)

Posted by KimG at December 27, 2007 11:47

guess it's a good thing I still have my API key to use for the SOAP api :)

I'm going to be building a keyword monitor tool around the use of this API (for personal use) and I'll hopefully have it done sooner than later.

Posted by Jonathan Dingman at December 27, 2007 11:50

What about Web Position Gold? No one still using that?

Posted by Ken Savage at December 27, 2007 16:09

Wordtracker

Posted by Gary Beal at December 28, 2007 07:58

Web Position Gold works very well...

Posted by mike b at December 28, 2007 13:12

I have been using adgooroo for years. It does a great job of tracking SEO and PPC rankings. It has great automated reports, so I received weekly excel spreadsheets that track the current rank, weekly progress and monthly progress. http://www.adgooroo.com/

Posted by susan at December 28, 2007 13:26

I have developed my own scripts to keep track of my keywords (which are automatically taken from web log stats files, so i would spot any keyword which rank) in google.

Posted by Arts at December 29, 2007 05:52

I second the comment about AdGooroo. I used to run SEOElite but gave it up because I could never remember to run it. Adgooroo automatically checks both natural and PPC ranks every day and saves the history, so it's there when I get around to checking (which is once about every two weeks).

BTW, they just introduced a new report that finds all of the keywords you don't know about where you are ranked organically. Awesome.

Posted by Loren Jackson at January 2, 2008 18:14

Advanced Web Ranking works good for me, but I dont't put to much stock in rank watching. Mostly for fun.

Posted by Jaan Kanellis at January 4, 2008 00:52

Web Position Gold rocks for me.

Posted by Wendell at January 4, 2008 11:53

I tend to use a combination of Google Adwords and Web CEO. Adwords come up with the suggestions and Web CEO tends research how successful the key phrases are.

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