Google Places Rank Tracker Software - beta testers welcome

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Hi all

Got sick of waiting for a tool to track my clients Google Places listings so built one for myself.

This is BETA software, so keep that in mind and it's raw.

Local Google Places Rank Tracker

There are no bells or whistles but it works, at least it does for all of my testing.

Before spending a heap of time on making a massive Market Samurai style application for tracking rank, I thought I'd start simple to see if anyone was interested in it.

Let me know your thoughts.

Aaron
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  • Profile picture of the author George Pitts
    Thanks Aaron I will try it out
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      Whats in the CID
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      You are to quick for me I'm just uploading the help / usage video now.
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      • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
        Sorry about that. This is called...

        Ready, Shoot, Aim

        The help video on how to actually use the software is now on the help page.

        And another thing, my internet is down so I'm using dial up. Not a good day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rus Sells
    Hey thanks for the chance to beta your software.

    I am experiencing some contradictory results though.

    After clearing all browsing history, cache, and cookies across all three major browsers the software is reporting false rankings.

    Is your software fetching a cached version of Google index or something?
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      If you have any issues, please send in a support ticket to Web Smart Central Support Help Desk and include the log file and where are you are located in the world.

      The log file ( LocalRankTracker.log ) is written to the user documents directory.

      So on vista it's usually c:\users\name\documents

      The testing we've done so far has shown accurate results for searches within your own country, so I'm keen to see what other people find.

      The results aren't cached, they are live.

      Aaron
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      • Profile picture of the author Rus Sells
        Maybe its a glitch..

        I will check it over the next few days.




        Originally Posted by aarondwyer View Post

        If you have any issues, please send in a support ticket to Web Smart Central Support Help Desk and include the log file and where are you are located in the world.

        The log file ( LocalRankTracker.log ) is written to the user documents directory.

        So on vista it's usually c:usersnamedocuments

        The testing we've done so far has shown accurate results for searches within your own country, so I'm keen to see what other people find.

        The results aren't cached, they are live.

        Aaron
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  • Profile picture of the author xInd
    Are you planning to sell this or package it afterwards?
    I'll go check it out now, I'm always interested in new stuff like this and have been having the same lingering thoughts about the need for some google places, maps and other apps listings and tracking...
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      >Are you planning to sell this or package it afterwards?

      Depends what the market tells me.

      If it's popular and there is a need, I'll build it out to a proper application, and charge for it. As I've done with my other software products.

      This only took 3 days to throw together and a few hours to get the website ready.

      If it takes off great, if not, not much lost, and I still have a tool that I use on a daily basis.
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      • Profile picture of the author Bronwyn and Keith
        Hi Aaron

        Hi from just down the road on the Gold Coast.

        Looks like a worthwhile 3 days as far as we can tell.

        Regards

        Bronwyn and Keith
        Originally Posted by aarondwyer View Post

        >Are you planning to sell this or package it afterwards?

        Depends what the market tells me.

        If it's popular and there is a need, I'll build it out to a proper application, and charge for it. As I've done with my other software products.

        This only took 3 days to throw together and a few hours to get the website ready.

        If it takes off great, if not, not much lost, and I still have a tool that I use on a daily basis.
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Did you watch the video on the website? See the help page.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbmills1
    Aaron

    Thanks for the handy tool. I've been working on a similar application. The big difference is that it will allow users to search multiple keywords for multiple listings and I think I've just about got it. I really wanted to add a keyword search function but with all the changes to Google lately the keyword search function just too unpredictable and I am going to remove it. I don't believe it will be a problem though as most offline consultants already know the keywords they are competing for. Please shoot me a PM if you would like to test out the software.

    Best Regards
    Jon
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Would test, but need to know - mac friendly? Won't download if not. Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author OMGriffin
        Hi,

        Just to report a couple of tests I did with your tracker software. The accuracy isn't quite there (comes close but still reports inaccurate results). For example, a particular listing in my browser shows up in position 1 for Places, but your tracker software reports it at position 10. Another listing shows up in position 3 in my browser but your tracker software reports it at position 4. I did two other local searches and it came up with mismatching position listings. I have no clue why it would do this. I'll leave up to you to investigate . It's a neat tracking tool, but accuracy will be paramount because if I were to use this for a client (produce a report from your software to my client) and they do their own checking by browsing, they will call me out on it.
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        • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
          Originally Posted by OMGriffin View Post

          Hi,

          Just to report a couple of tests I did with your tracker software. The accuracy isn't quite there (comes close but still reports inaccurate results). For example, a particular listing in my browser shows up in position 1 for Places, but your tracker software reports it at position 10. Another listing shows up in position 3 in my browser but your tracker software reports it at position 4. I did two other local searches and it came up with mismatching position listings. I have no clue why it would do this. I'll leave up to you to investigate . It's a neat tracking tool, but accuracy will be paramount because if I were to use this for a client (produce a report from your software to my client) and they do their own checking by browsing, they will call me out on it.
          Thanks for testing.

          If you could submit an example business CID and keywords and where you are in the world to my support page, I'll see if I get a difference. Of course I won't be local to your Google datacenter so I may get different results than you, but the results between a manual check and LRT should be the same for me.

          Did you clear your browser cache and cookies and log out of Google before you did your manual searches?

          Local Rank Tracker uses it's own inbuilt browser, with no caching or cookies, and runs searches on Google without personalisation active.

          Accuracy to one or two places is acceptable.

          Also you won't get 'called out' on it. And if you did you could easily set them straight.

          Aaron
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          • Profile picture of the author OMGriffin
            Ok, support ticket submitted. My example is showing website at position 1 in google but LRT shows it at position 10. i can accept a difference in a couple of positions but a difference between 1 and 10 is quite big. I cleared my cache and cookies too.

            let me know what you find out.

            thx!

            Originally Posted by aarondwyer View Post

            Thanks for testing.

            If you could submit an example business CID and keywords and where you are in the world to my support page, I'll see if I get a difference. Of course I won't be local to your Google datacenter so I may get different results than you, but the results between a manual check and LRT should be the same for me.

            Did you clear your browser cache and cookies and log out of Google before you did your manual searches?

            Local Rank Tracker uses it's own inbuilt browser, with no caching or cookies, and runs searches on Google without personalisation active.

            Accuracy to one or two places is acceptable.

            Also you won't get 'called out' on it. And if you did you could easily set them straight.

            Aaron
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            • Profile picture of the author SuccessBlogsUK
              Just tried here in the UK and it picked all of my clients positions perfectly.

              Great tool

              Thanks

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        Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

        Would test, but need to know - mac friendly? Won't download if not. Thanks.
        Local Rank Tracker runs via Adobe AIR and is Windows (all flavours), MAC OSX (all flavours), and Linux friendly.
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      Originally Posted by jbmills1 View Post

      Aaron

      Thanks for the handy tool. I've been working on a similar application. The big difference is that it will allow users to search multiple keywords for multiple listings and I think I've just about got it. I really wanted to add a keyword search function but with all the changes to Google lately the keyword search function just too unpredictable and I am going to remove it. I don't believe it will be a problem though as most offline consultants already know the keywords they are competing for. Please shoot me a PM if you would like to test out the software.

      Best Regards
      Jon
      That is excellent Jon, I've sent you a PM. In my mind Market Samurai could churn out a new module in about 1 day to cater for this application, based on their existing organic SEO rank tracker strengths. So I didn't want to spend much time on it, just get the concept down and get it to market.
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  • Profile picture of the author HypnoHugh
    This is definitely a useful tool - I have a client we 6 offices and a number of important keywords and the rankings keep moving. This will be a big help
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  • Profile picture of the author halfbakedrew
    Ive just tryed it. It gets some of my maps right and others its close. But ether way this is a great begginer tool. I would love to see this tool do more. Thanks Aaron. Please let me know if you need any ideas for the tool.
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Thanks for the comments everyone.

      There is still some fine tuning being done, since a few people have commented on weird results and I can validate that.

      More investigation is currently underway.

      Aaron
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      • Profile picture of the author JamieSEO
        I will give it a whirl and let you know how I go

        I provide localized services across Australia, US and UK so it should get a decent variety of locations to test
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    Is this free of charge?
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Yes the beta is free, I haven't decided to make this software into a full blown application yet.

      Let me know what you think.

      Even if I do I'll keep a version totally free, with an upgrade to the bigger application.

      Aaron
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        Thanks Aaron,look forward to giving it a try.

        Regards

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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Thanks for the words of support everyone.

      I've been busy on other projects over the last week, but am turning my attention back to the local rank tracker.

      I'll send out an email to all the beta testers and get this party started.

      Aaron
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  • Profile picture of the author Rocketguy
    Does this tool scrape data? Like addresses, websites, emails?
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      No, did you watch the video or download the free beta?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rocketguy
    no, I didn't but I am trying to find a replacement for the gmapextractor that got shut down recently.
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Yes that was a sad state of affairs for those guys involved with that other software.

      This software complimented it, since it just tracks rank only, which the other software didn't do. Up to position 300 in Google Places. And it's cross platform, MAC OSX, Windows, Linux

      Aaron
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    Great little tool I look forward to using it for my clients. Thanks, Phil
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    I am going to test this out. Looks great.
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    For anyone that hasn't tried this software yet, you need to, If you have any google maps. it has helped me so much and it not even fully programed yet.
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    • Profile picture of the author joem07
      Aaron this software is incredibly helpful. Thanks for making this available to us.
      Best wishes for continued success!

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      • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
        Thanks everyone for your comments.

        I've got a survey going for the next 24 hours about the software. If you are on my beta mailing list you will have received an email about it.

        If not I'm randomly going to pick 3 survery results and give away licenses to those 3 for the software once it's done.

        Local Rank Tracker Survey

        PS Only for those that are on my beta mailing list of course.
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  • Profile picture of the author neford
    WoW Aaron thanks what a wonderful little time saver would be nice to track more than one keyword at a time but even so a BIG THANKS

    Norman
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  • Profile picture of the author Kym Robinson
    Thanks Aaron - have you seen the 'other' thread about this?

    Its massive and has many ideas on what peeps are looking for in this sort of tool - I cant seem to find it though - but its a massive thread with lots of interesting ideas for you to consider!

    thanks and Merry Christmas to you and yours
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    Is this still working well?
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  • Profile picture of the author DMCAPROS
    Thank you for this, I am going to utilize it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparkreflection
    Thank you very much! This is a very useful tool for each new client, to follow the evolution of his ranks. Great idea!
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  • Profile picture of the author Adaptise
    What happened with this software...the site hasn't been updated since Feb...is it dead?
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Thanks for asking.

      Not dead, far from it. Did you grab the free beta trial?

      I've been keeping the current beta testers up to date via email.

      We are a few days away from a full release. I'll be notifying everyone in a couple of days, with a video of the full version.

      Those on the current beta will have first access at a discount of course.

      As per all my other software I'll have a 7 day free trial of the full version, so you can check it out if it's right for you.

      Aaron
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  • Hi Aaron does this software only work with Google.com or is it good for other places like the UK as well?
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    • Profile picture of the author aarondwyer
      Yes, works with any google that has google places.

      Grab the beta and test it for yourself and watch the video.

      Aaron
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  • Profile picture of the author jsherloc
    Seems like there are a lot of different types of software coming out dedicated to Google Places lately, I figured it is about time. Hopefully the big G won't throw any "curveballs" at your software, as they tend to have done with some of the other Places-dedicated software out there.

    Looks like a great tool for the offline market Aaron!

    - Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author johnwaugh123
    They will go check it out now, They are always interested in new stuff like this and have been having the same lingering thoughts about the need for some Google places, maps as well as other apps listings and chasing.
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