How Can I Track My Google Position?

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I hear a lot of people on here say they are trying to get on Google's first page...but there in position 54 right now....or 24, etc.

How do I know what position my website is in?
(...is it the main website I'm trying to rank or just an article?!?)

Eileen
#search engine optimization #google #position #track
  • Use Googles Webmaster Tools for your site and this will give you a relative position. Bear in mind it is relative to local searches etc... Also Google Analytics is gooing to help you analyse other data for your site. If you are just beginning you should really start learning these now.
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    • I need to look around Google Webmaster Tools some more...

      I asked in another forum about 'which tools people were using to track data'. Seems like there are lots of ways to monitor sites. I was just hoping for a 'one stop shop'.

      I look at my web host AW Stats.
      I look at my WordPress Stats.
      I look at Google Analytics.

      ...but that's pretty much it. (...keep in mind there isn't a whole lot to look at with my sites right now! lol)

      Thanks.

      - Eileen
  • I recommend Traffic Travis. I've been using it for awhile now. It's good to use proxies with it though.
  • This software will do if for you and is free. It's very accurate.

    Rank Tracker - Track Your Search Engine Rankings Easily!
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  • Hi Eileen,

    There are a number of tracking tools. As far as a free one goes I find Rank Checker Ace good. It was promoted on WF a while ago and I've been using it for a while.

    Realize that you don't actually track your website's position, just a page of your website for a particular search term. Factors that come into play are geo-location and personalized searches for anyone that's logged into their Google account at the time of the search.

    Google Analytics is a very useful tool and you should make use of it to analyze your traffic - where visitors come from, how long they stay, do they visit more than one page, what keywords they used, mobile or desktop, etc.

    Chow chow,
    Kevin
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  • There are several programs and web based services that offer this. Most are paid - such as Serp Buddy and SE Scout, but some are free such as Rankerizer.
  • Market Samurai, Rank Tracker from SEO PowerSuite, and Traffic Travis are reliable and accurate rank trackers. If you don't want to spend, Traffic Travis is the safest bet though. Just make sure to use proxies if you are monitoring and tracking multiple URLs through multi-country searches.
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    • I'm using Market Samuria and I just realized that's it part of their package! Yeah! lol

      I put some data in today to see what happens. I really need to look at (and learn how to use) Google's Webmaster Tools and Analytics. I (honestly) find the information a little confusing...but I'm sure it will make more sense as sites and traffic grows.

      Eileen
  • I myself use rankerizer: Free Rank Checker: Find Out Where Your Sites are Ranked in Google, Yahoo, and Bing! Rank Tracker
    It could be a little off sometimes, but most of the times it is accurate
  • I like SEMRush
    SEMrush - service for competitors research, shows organic and Ads keywords for any site or domain
    You can try it free, I paid for the professional version but that is what I do for a living. :-)
  • Use SEO Power Suite as mentioned in one of the above posts.
  • Thanks for the great post. I had no idea how to check my position in the SE
  • For up to position 100 for a KW I found CuteRank helpful:

    FREE Keyword Rank Checker Tool, Check Keyword Position on Google, Yahoo, Bing
  • you can try Rankerizer from Brad Callen, it's free.
    go get here: rankerizer.com
  • There are other good tools like Rank Tracker which you can find by Googling it and downloading it for free.
  • You check your position based on your targeted keywords. There can be any number of keywords, so try using an automated tool. The one in my signature will check, track, and graph the top 300 in google for multiple keywords at once. No need to check them one-by-one.

    All free, which is great if you are on a budget.
  • It's a page your ranking and not the whole website. Just do a search in google yourself. Make sure your logged out of your account
  • The best to track the Google Position accurately is to SERP manually
  • use the following link to find the exact position
    seoserp.com/web_tools/google_top_1000_serps_checker.asp
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    • This one is dead now.. one of my high targeted volume keyword which is in top 10 position in seoserp.com it is showing out of 1000 search LOL...

      But i used this service before but not more..
  • One of the biggest mistakes people make is searching for their keywords while signed in to Google. Sign out and you will get a correct result to how it sees the results
  • Cuterank Pro is a flexible and useful tool for tracking. I use this tool on a VPS with VPN.
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  • I use Long Tail Pro for my keyword tracking. It's an added feature they included as part of their keyword research tool. You do need to pay for it though (about $100) but it is a great tool.
  • Hi ,
    you can check your ranking @ RankTracker to track your ranking or you can check @ Cuterank Pro
  • You might want to try this service. (Click here) You can track up to 50 keywords...
  • You can outsource your tracking on fiverr
  • I too use cuterank pro
    It supports proxies too.
  • I checked my ranking through SEOMOZ rank tracker tool and found first my 1 keyword was moved to #8 now when i refresh again after 10 min its move to #18 than move to #6.. so it is just flux.. from their datacenter but really confused which one is accurate.. but what i find whatsmyserp.com providing the accurate details which others are showing bogus..
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    • I second this. whatsmyserp.com was recently updated to make its results exactly as the user would make if your keyword is ranked in the top 25. If it is outside the top 25, it uses a different query. Since it does check the top 300 results from google, it has to use a query that returns 100 results at a time which can be a little different, but when it is checking the top 300 for your keyword, it can't make 30 requests. The site is also a bulk on-demand SERP checker, so check your keywords whenever you want, 20 at a time with the click of a button.

      All free. Why pay when you can get fast, accurate results easily and free?
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    I hear good stories about SerpFox, personally I use SerpBook but it's pretty unreliable at moments.
  • You need to know the keywords that you are targeting before you start checking your rankings. Just use Google to check your site rankings for each targeted keyword.
  • Dude, checkout Simple SEO Rank Checker

    This tool tracks all of your keywords and URLs in Google, yahoo and bing
  • You can try to use Travis Travis but right now I am using SERPFOX.

    It checks your keywords automatically I believe 3 times a day...pretty cool.

    -Omar
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    • Don trust any free tools to track your ranking on Search engines. Manual checking is always best. b'coz free tools do not show you the exact position of search engines ranking. sometimes it will be unique
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  • I like Free Monitor for Google.
    Free Monitor for Google is a tool likely to be the free Web site position monitoring utility for Google currently available on the Net.

    Free Monitor for Google - Download
  • I use rank tracker,serpfox to monitor my & clients site
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  • You can Track your Google Position With IBP Tool. It is best and fast tool for tracking the website position. I m also using this tool.
  • My vote goes to SEO Power Suite's Rank Tracker software.
  • SEMrush is best
  • i can get to your home page . get some blue screen.
    any help
  • I have bought Rank Tracker Premium Plugin for Scrapebox - 10 bucks. Works great with me. You can use for Google, Yahoo and Bing
  • I am using BrightLocal! I also used rank tranker and they were both good tools!
  • You never step into the same river twice.

    Google SERP results CAN be different for different IP addresses, at different times...

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