Local SEO Rankings Report Tools (based on several locations)?

[GregoryTK]

Hi,

Just a quick question.

I am looking for a Rankings Report tool that allows a user to not only provide a list of Keywords, but also a list of Locations for which to check Google UK's ranking results.

In practice, I would like to be able to enter 6 names of Towns next to my keyword list and get "localised results".

Many thanks in advance,

Cheers

Greg
PS: first Q within the Q&A, so please apologise for any potential "stupid questions"

[MeganSingley]

Hi Greg!  This is Megan from the SEOmoz help team.  If you start a campaign, our rankings section can track local rankings for keywords.  You would just need to enter the keywords separately with each of the towns you're interested in.  For example, if I wanted to track local rankings for 'pizza' in different cities in the Northwest, I would need to enter the keywords like the following:

portland pizza

seattle pizza

olympia pizza

tacoma pizza

Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with other tools that will track local rankings, but hopefully this will help!

Cheers!

[GregoryTK]

Hi Megan,

Many thanks for your feedback.

Hmmm, can you please confirm that this would equate to having your browser (Google UK) set to this specific location?  I have trouble believing that just adding the name of the city would generate similar results to actually doing a mobile search while in that specific city?

Again, many thanks in advance for your feedback...

Cheers

Greg

[ThompsonPaul]

The method Megan's suggesting would only provide info in cases where the searcher actually included the geographic modifier as one of the search terms, Gregory.

In order for a tool to provide the info as you want it, it would need to be maintaining proxies in all the possible cities one might want to get "local" search data from (i.e. search results as if the search was triggered from someone in that actual location.)

I'm not aware of any tool that provides that kind of data. I too would love to hear if anyone knows of such a thing.

Paul

[GregoryTK]

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for your feedback.  This confirms what I thought...

Proxies are obviously a simple but not easily scalable solution for whomever would want to create such a Rankings Report tool.

Looking forward to seeing somebody come up with a solution to this.

Cheers

Greg

[GregoryTK]

Hi Paul,

Just looked at some old Q&A of mine...

Whitespark.ca now offer a Local Rank Tracker
https://www.whitespark.ca/rank-tracker

A bit pricey but does the job.

Cheers

Greg

[KeriMorgret]

I know this thread is a couple of years old, but I see you're still active here on the site, and wanted to let you know we now have a ranking tracking solution! Details are in our blog post at http://moz.com/blog/local-rankings-in-moz-analytics.

[RyanKnoll]

It sounds like the multi-location reporting your asking for here is close to what Report Pro does. Check it out here: https://reportpro.net/landing-page/

Edit: Full disclosure I have been good friends with the Report Pro guys for a long time and I have been helping them build out their reporting software. They originally helped me build Local SEO (Google Maps) reporting software for Voice Media Group and are now selling it to other local SEO companies.

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Ryan,

Welcome to Moz! I noticed your profile has Report Pro in it. If you're affiliated with a product you're recommending, it's a good policy to please disclose that in your answer. Thanks!

[RyanKnoll]

Pardon me Keri it's late and I forgot my manners! made an edit in the comment to correct this. Thanks!

[KeriMorgret]

Thanks for clarifying things! It can look a bit odd to come to a two-year-old question on the day you join and have a link to a product with no context.