Finding a reliable keyword ranking tool has been quite a struggle for a while now, I’ve used quite a few and they’ve had various problems. One of which was running too many queries on Google in a short space of time and getting our IP address banned – which the other guys in the office weren’t happy about! Another problem was exporting results into a nice format and monitoring over time, it often took some trickery with Excel and some extra formatting for the results to make sense over time.
I stumbled across SEO Rank Monitor by chance really, in fact I can’t actually remember where I first saw it but I remember making a note to test it. I setup an account last week and put a few sites into the interface. I went for the $39 a month plan and got the following -
- 10 Domains to track
- 2500 Keywords
- 3 Competitors
- Analytics integration
After a day or so there was enough data for me to assess how the software worked. I was very impressed, the user interface is very smart, tidy and easy to use. But the best part was the fact that the software updates my rankings automatically, plots it on a graph and shows you progress over time. It took me ages to accomplish this with Excel! Here is an example of how you can see your overall rankings at a glance:
There is also an option to integrate with Google Analytics so that the software can record how many visitors you get and aligns this number with that keywords ranking. This involves giving user access to your Analytics account which I was a bit unsure about but after an email to the rank monitor guys I thought I’d give it a shot. Again this data is great and presented in a friendly interface.
My only slight disappointment was that you can only track three competitors as well but this isn’t a major problem. I can get over it!
As you can probably tell, I’m very impressed with the software hence I’m recommending it to you guys. If you want to take a look here is the website link – SEO Rank Monitor.
Tags: Google Analytics, keyword ranking tool, keyword research, SEO, seo rank monitor
March 5th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Interesting stuff, I’ve not tried this one. I still haven’t figured out how I lived before using Advanced Web Rankings.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for the comment.
I’ve heard good things about Advanced Web Ranking and its on my list of pieces of software to try. From what I can tell, the major advantange that SEO Rank Monitor has is its ability to connect to Google Analytics and tell you how much traffic you are getting for a certain keyword – very valuable.
Paddy