How do you check your KW rankings?

[AdoptionHelp]

I'm currently using the PRO campaigns to track my main keywords. However, I'm trying to do some research on KW opportunities, and having no luck finding a way to conveniently check rankings for new keywords.

What tool do you use to get ranking results for large keyword lists?

[Malarowski]

I track it all through the PRO campaigns and manually search in a browser in privacy mode with personalization disabled to get more up-to-date information should I need it for short term analysis. Since only long-term matters for most I found that the PRO tools are sufficient 90% of the time though.

[gfiorelli1]

A still good rank checker is the free seobook one for firefox. On the other hand, I find extremely useful the keyword tool by SeoGADGET.co.uk that between it's features have one that show you the ranking of all the queries listed in Analytics and that have generated at least 1 organic visit.

[AdoptionHelp]

I'm trying to re-create the spreadsheets from the webinar yesterday about actionable keyword strategies. Unfortunately without a batch ranking tool I don't think its going to be worth the effort. Looking them up one by one in private mode isn't viable when you've only got 24 hours in a day, and the seogadget toolset is either behind a paywall I can't find or disabled temporarily.

[KyleJohnson40]

Your server logs (and website analytics) will always be the best place to mine for new keyword opportunities you may be unaware of.

For monitoring keyword rank there are quite a few options, and it just depends on what you're looking for. If you're like me, the Pro service here with weekly updates is too slow. SEScout.com has hourly updates and is usually very accurate. They have free acounts available that are good for tracking projects with 10 or less keywords.

Like pretty much any SaaS though, they can get expensive when you want to track hundreds or thousands of keywords on a regular basis. That's where software tracking is usually a better choice, such as RankTracker. I've more accuracy problems with this program for local listings, but for non-localized SEO it's great.

If you want keyword ideas based on speculative data, then SpyFu Recon is pretty neat. However, in order for it to really be of any use, you need to have a site that's already pulling in some decent traffic for its keywords.

[AdoptionHelp]

Which Rank Tracker are you referring to? There are dozens of sites/tools that are using that name.

I'm more concerned with finding a ranking tool that can show me where my site ranks for large lists of keywords. Less so with general keyword strategies.

[KyleJohnson40]

Ha, sorry for the confusion - it's literally called RankTracker.

www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/

edit: and I just checked their site and it's down. decent program, though

[gfiorelli1]

I checked and it indeed disabled, surely because it relies to adwords APIs for traffic estimations, and there are serious problems with those APIs (also here with the kw difficulty tool. And yes, it is a paid tool, even though quite cheap respect others and surely worth the money, as it is meant especially for kw hunting and the ranking feature is an important but subsidiary feature. .

[AdeLewis]

I use Rank Tracker to check hundreds of keywords each day for multiple sites. The best thing for me is the ability to schedule Rank Tracker to automatically check rankings throughout the night.

I'm not sure how limited the free version is but well worth seeing if it suits your purpose.

[StreamlineMetrics]

I use several tools for rank tracking:

1. CuteRank - Simple and easy to use keyword rank checker and best of all, it's free. http://cuterank.net/

2. Market Samurai - Great software for keyword research and includes a keyword rank checker. http://www.marketsamurai.com/

3. SEMRush.com - I don't really use this site for keeping track of my keyword rankings over time, but it is invaluable for discovering new keyword opportunities since you can see all the keywords your site and your competitors' sites rank for. One way it helped me is that on one of my sites, I discovered that a random PDF was ranking #1 for a popular keyword but since I was only using Google Analytics to track my website visitors, I had no idea the PDF was getting any traffic. So I redirected the PDF to an actual page with the GA tracking code, website navigation and a contact form in order to convert some of those visitors in potential customers.