RAVEN's SERP Tracking is DEAD...Good Alternatives?

We've been looking around and various places and so far it looks like the place we're ending up at is www.BringShare.com - I've had a number of emails with Justin the CEO, he's sent videos and also a PDF Report that I requested and I've been very happy with both the communication and the layouts of the reports. We're configuring 8 clients in their system currently to see how things look for the future, but it seems to be where we're headed.

I've tried a few other places, even the place where Raven used to get their data from, but BringShare really just brings it all together. These are strictly REPORTING and VIEWING tools and do not provide any of the additional things like keyword research, competition views etc etc that other tools provided. This is not a TOOL, this is a REPORT.

A good alternative SERP ranking tool is the one provided by keywordsearchrankings.com. Their reports are generated fast, the results are highly reliable and the tool even provide some additional data, which is becoming more and more important, especially in local SEO: you can see SERP results as they are shown to users in different geographical locations (countries, cities and even some smaller towns).

Do you believe these tools will work for long or they gonna die like Ravens tools?

The big thing about raven is that they COULD get the data directly from Google if they paid for the access to the API. The issue was that they're using SCRAPE data which is against Google TOS. If instead they'd pay for each query, they'd still be able to do all the keyword ranking that they were doing.

All you really need to do is find a place that's using the Google API to get the keyword data, it'll cost more (as they have to pay Google), but that's really all you need.

There are general tools out there like "rank tracker" from Link-assistant, or SERPs.com, rankwatch.com, micrositemasters.com and even seomoz.com still do rank indexing and performance. It was just nice to have everything inside of one tool (Raven), but once they dropped the rank tracking, and then also dropped the access to SEMRush, it's pretty much something we'll rarely if ever use now Certainly, we'll be dropping our Agency membership ($249/month) and an additional $60/month for extra keywords. That's $309/month that they'll lose just from me. There's sure to be other agency places that will also drop out too. It's definitely a big blow to their bottom line.

Another vote for Rank Tracker here, I wouldn't recommend anything else at this stage.

I use Market Samurai but is there anything better and cheaper available?

It's worth checking out Raven Tools Alternative Webinar - Import Rank Tracker Data

They are able import Raven Tools ranking data, so you won't lose any history.

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also SEOmoz.com, authoritylabs.com....

Hey,

Go for either Serpbuddy.com
or serpbook.com
Both are good, reliable and much cheaper than other competitors.

Ahrefs.com is also stopping their keywords too. Looks like it's a chance for the competitors to grab some business.

My vote also goes for whatsmyserp.com. For occasional users of SERP tools like us it fits the bill.

You could also try A1 Keyword Research. (Costs $49, no monthly fee.)

Mike, was it too much clicking about? Not being sarcastic, just curious. I actually like the fact its split into different modules, but that's just how I work. The new rank tracker kicks butt, and sends you automatic pdf reports that actually look good and explain things. It's speeded up as well. If it is the interface, how would you change it?

Not anymore. They've really done some optimizing. They also said they were looking at moving away from AIR. To what I don't know.

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