Comments on: Search Engine Ranking Checkers – Why They Still Matter

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:58:35 +0000

Hi Andrew

As stated on our download page

3 things that may cause results to differ when you use Rank Checker vs when you search Google directly.

1.) personalization – if personalization is on then the results you see might be different than the results other see. even if you are not logged into an account results can be altered by your recent prior search queries.

2.) clustering – to send Google less queries we grab 100 results per page. If 2 pages from the same site are in the search results they will be clustered together, so in many cases a low ranking page will see rankings shown even lower on our tool due to clustering. If you add &num=100 to the address bar in google the results should be fairly well aligned with our tool.

3.) datacenter and algorithm changes – at different times of day your query might access different datacenters, and algo changes also happen all the time…Google did around 450 algorithm adjustments in 2007.

Even if the numbers do not exactly line up they are still good for helping you see the general ranking trends.

By: Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:28:04 +0000

hey Dave, interesting post & i am using SEObook for page ranking checker. But, i do check manually, after checking in page rank checker & i find the difference in page ranking. Why is it ?

By: Design horloges

Design horloges — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:49:16 +0000

Most of the time I use the rank tracker on seomoz.org and the rank checker which is build-in in the seobook toolbar.

By: call answering service

call answering service — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:52:12 +0000

I use a rank checker (seobook.com) if anything just so i can check when google has cached a new site on whatever terms i’m aiming for.

By: Springboard SEO

Springboard SEO — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:47:06 +0000

The one thing that bothers me about most ranking checkers is that the results don’t differentiate between the business listings at the top of the page and the rest of the results – renders many of these tools useless as far as I’m concerned.

By: warren shaw

warren shaw — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:04:12 +0000

Hi Some very good content in here, rankings are crucial in this area of business along with keywords meta tags not so important especially from googles point of view Great Work

By: James

James — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:35:44 +0000

Great tip in the video about going after a neighbourhood, or other localized keyword. That really works…

Localized search levels are growing exponentially. The sooner you start marketing your site for localized phrases, the better. In particular if you are a small business, or if you have clients who have a small business.

Thanks for the great post….

James

By: mathewsteff

mathewsteff — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:14:45 +0000

Yes, Rankings matter a lot and the more important thing is keywords, since if you target the right keywords which users are looking out for then you may land up in the first page of the SERP and also get more conversions too.

By: Tom - marketing tips

Tom - marketing tips — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:05:54 +0000

If you do not rank for your keywords, there is no way you are going to get targeted traffic that converts.I often use tracking tools to see what terms in my niche people are searching for and write useful blog posts on each term.

By: Pixelsmedia

Pixelsmedia — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:20:39 +0000

Thanks for your post. it was very informative. i used to check search engine ranking manually. It cleared many questions in my mind.

By: inmobiliaria madrid

inmobiliaria madrid — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:46:12 +0000

I am using Google Keyword Analyzer tool, since I first created my blog in 2004. I have found it very useful, and it helps me a lot determining about the keywords, conversion etc.

By: Seo Service

Seo Service — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:06:19 +0000

Rank Checker can be used to check the competitiveness of keywords on sites like HubPages and Squidoo by just typing in the URL of the site and the keywords you are targeting. Rank Checker will then list the highest available site in ranking for that keyword if one is ranking. This is a great way to see if any new keyword that you are trying to make a hub or lens for has any competition and if you are able to beat its ranking.

By: kleansy

kleansy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:55 +0000

Web ranking or checkers were useful and important SEO,
And thanks to this site, now I can optimize my site with my small budget.

By: Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:07:29 +0000

Useful and important information about ranking checkers. I believe that ranking checkers are essential for a n SEO campaign. It helps to know us where the website is indexed in the search engine and other attributes related to organic search engine ranking. I do use ranking checkers it helps me to take necessary steps to get good search engine ranking. Thanks once again.

By: Ted Payne

Ted Payne — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:11:22 +0000

Love this post – and love the quick video.

It makes sense to start small when dealing with niches. A partner and I attacked a lot of small terms in a certain niche – terms with a couple thousand searches a month…maybe a bit less. We were pulling in money better than ever…and a funny thing happened. As we built links for the smaller terms, we naturally raised on the main term.

Now we rank for it as well. The progression was completely natural. We still make money from that term, but of course it is a lucrative niche.

By: Rankability SEO

Rankability SEO — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:51:48 +0000

So important to get feedback on how well you are doing in the big wide world of SEO. Can see it being especially usefull for large sites and reporting. Strangely I use the advanced link manger product from the same company, but am thinking of using this too!

By: Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:07:53 +0000

A blog post about a local area with a couple of place names as tags can be all it takes to optimise a website for a “long tail” area search for a product or service.

By: chewie

chewie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:05:22 +0000

Thanks for these great tips, Dave. I have heard of changing traffic to making money. How do we do that ?

By: MAS

MAS — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:09:25 +0000

Liked the video! Niche selection is everything when starting out. Building a keyword strategy around an attainable niche has worked for me so far! Then “build out!”

By: Kei Dayton

Kei Dayton — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:56:43 +0000

I remember when I first started out building my website. I didn’t understand how keywords affected my ranking, but once I read up on it and after some trial and error. I realised how much of a difference picking the right keywords can make to your traffic. This is a great post and I’m glad I found it.

Kei.

By: Will Maack

Will Maack — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:46:38 +0000

I have used Google Rankings for quite a while and it seems the service is no longer available. Do you have any suggestions for organic rank checkers. Any help is greatly appreciated!

By: Repo Woman

Repo Woman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:19:39 +0000

Nice article and some good comments especially regarding the tracking of longer tail keywords. Any online business really needs to exploit and be able to track these.

By: Brendan Abel

Brendan Abel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:38:22 +0000

I’m having to learn this lesson now. I started by going after all the high traffic keywords in my niche that has beatable competition. My initial thinking was “if I got to pick cousins they might as well be high traffic” Now I learning that building authority on those little know or used cousins will really speed up the whole process of bagging that big fish. Very informative post

By: elektropedia

elektropedia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:01:16 +0000

yeach, i agree with you. tracking individual keyword is very important i think.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:45:23 +0000

You can’t put too much emphasis on keyword tracking, especially for those you want to track for conversion purposes.

By: Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:07:10 +0000

Content based SEO has worked for us better than any other method. Good tracking information. It’s a must for any business evaluation.

By: Tom Harvey

Tom Harvey — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:01:59 +0000

Great post with some really helpful links and references, thanks.
I’m in the process of building a foundation and developing it over time much like Matt suggests so these type of tips and advice are very useful.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:17:51 +0000

Hi Dave.
I totally agree with you that the tracking individual keyword rankings are very important for any site.

Without tracking your site you can never know how much traffic and how good your site is converting. You gave me some use full ideas and also I can use it to better my efforts.

Nice post….

By: More website visitors

More website visitors — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:03:52 +0000

Constant keyword tracking and analysis is important to help distinguish which areas need improvement and which are a success.

By: Free Rein Internet Marketing

Free Rein Internet Marketing — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:37:58 +0000

Interesting article. Keyword tracking is essential when determining success rate and the areas which need improvement.