What is the difference between the Rank Tracker and the On-page Optimization page?

[ehabd]

Both of them track keywords.

In the Rank Tracker, you add each keyword manually and you associate it with a URL.

For On-page Optimization page, the URLs are generated automatically based on searches and traffic?

[matbennett]

Hi Ehab,

The Rank Tracker and On-page optimisation tools are very different. I'm not sure where you have got confused, so I'll try to explain each and see if that helps.

Rank Tracker : This tool measures where your website appears on particular keyword searches. If, as an example, you were tracking the term "purple hats" then the tools effectively does that search for you once a week and reports back where your site appears.

On-page optimisation tools : This looks at the page you specify, checks it for common problems and sees how relevant it is to the term that you specify.  It doesn't take in to account any off page factors (such as links or competition) and is just rating the pages "readiness".

I hope that helps clarify it a bit for you.

[ehabd]

Does the On-page Optimization page not show any rankings?

This is what I want to accomplish.

URL -> Keywords -> Rankings

I get an email report every week telling me about the rankings. The keywords there are taken from my "Manage Keywords" list on the On-page Optimization page.

So how come the Rank-Tracker can't use those keywords and I have to plugin the keywords manually. Something doesn't look right.

[KyleChamp]

I think your wanting to know why you have to add the same keywords to both the rankings page and the on-site page and why they don't just auto-populate each other. Unfortunately I don't have the answer for this as that’s the way SEOMOZ setup the software.

[matbennett]

Ah - understand now

There is currently a note on the rank tracker tool that it will be updated soon. Fingers crossed they might include this feature.