The most reliable mac/pc tools I’ve found are Rank Tracker & Advanced Web Ranking. Both tools are pretty cheap and they do what they say on the tin. Both have ‘search engine friendly’ rank checking modes…..Rank Tracker is simpler to use in my opinion.
But if you are going to use tools like these to check your rankings, then you’ll most definitely need a tool like HIDEMYASS to protect your privacy while you check your rankings – as most search engines don’t really like automated bots like these scraping their content (the irony). Eventually, your IP will trip the limit and search engines will block that IP with Captchas. Which is when HIDEMYASS changes your IP. Where possible, it’s always best to treat the search engines nice, anyway….
The ideal setup is probably to have a ‘workhorse’ computer with AWR or Rank Checker scheduled to check rankings at the same time every day – with HIDEMYASS installed and set to randomly change your IP location every few minutes between servers that are geographically local to you.
I save my rank reports to free web storage website DROP BOX so all my reports are accessible from all my machines.
One machine to run the reports. Many machines to view them.
Don’t get to fixated on all of your rankings – some terms and results pages are bound to jump all over the place – Google is designed that way! And don’t just try to rank for just a few terms. It’s much better to rank for lots of different – and related – terms than have a business based on one keyword at the top of what’s bound to be a competitive term…. so that means just adding lots of related content and getting some links to it.
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Both are great tools to check your rankings. Currently AWR is in version 8 which I believe completely changed the interface from version 7.
Have been using hidemyass.com to get unbiased search results for yrs. Works a treat.
Indeed it does :)
I’ve used Rank Tracker for the last few years. Never knew about Hide My Ass and look forward to implementing that. CAPTCH is a pain!
Yes I am using Rank Tracker myself these days. I thought AWR was running a bit slow on the mac – and I actually think AWR is a bit harder to get to grips with.
We’ve got AWR and run it through some external proxies, that way I don’t have to explain to the MD why he can’t use Google anymore if it trips the limit… Works really well.
I’ve been using rank checker for about a year and only recently has Google been returning a capatcha. Haven’t tried HideMyAss but good tip. Might even can you some affliate cash! ;)
nice one :)
All three of these sites are really good, i use rank checker myself. All three are really worth it. Checking your rank of your site is inevitable! Thanks for the great information!