UPDATE: Rank Tracker is NOT being retired!
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Update: Thank you all for your open and honest feedback about our planned retirement of Rank Tracker. Our product team has taken all of it to heart, discussed some alternatives, and has made the decision NOT to retire Rank Tracker at this time.
Instead, we want to learn more from you about what makes this tool so useful for you and your business. From what we learn in this survey, we will take steps to design a better solution for you than simply shutting it down.
Please take this Rank Tracker survey!
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Hello!
I am a product manager on the Moz Pro team, and I want to let you know about an upcoming change to Moz Pro.
On June 8th, 2018, we are retiring Rank Tracker, one of our tools for tracking keyword rankings.
Why?
We want to make Moz Pro easier to navigate and use. Right now, Moz has two tools that allow you to track keyword rankings: Rank Tracker and Campaigns. We’ve talked to a lot of customers and overwhelming feedback has been that this is just plain confusing. We agree.
Don’t worry! You can still use Moz Pro for all your rank tracking and keyword research.
Campaigns is the primary tool you should be using to track your keyword rankings and Keyword Explorer is your go-to to discover and prioritize the best keywords to target.
What do Rank Tracker users need to know?
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To keep a record of your tracked keyword history, you will need to export your tracked history to CSV.
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If you have opted-in to receive weekly ranking emails for your tracked keywords, you will no longer receive these email alerts after June 1st, 2018.
What should I do now?
If you are not using Rank Tracker then this change does not impact you one bit. If you use Rank Tracker for keyword tracking, you will need to add any keywords you would like to keep tracking to a Moz Pro campaign. You can create a new campaign or add keywords to an existing campaign by navigating to the Rankings tab and selecting Add & Manage Keywords.
If you have any more questions or feedback, please leave it in the comments below.
Thanks!
Kiki
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Hi Kiki,
I'm currently using the Rank Tracker as a way to get the rank of a certain page on a set of keywords, in order to determine which keywords to use. When adding new keywords to a campaign, it takes up to a week before I get the rankings. Without the Rank Tracker, how will I be able to get my ranking score on keywords within minutes?
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To bad there will be no lightweight keyword tracking available. We use this to track keywords for some simple pages (action websites, single page websites etc) in which case using an campaign would be an overkill and quite expenisive. We max out on campaigns pretty fast. The low number of campaigns in the plans is making this a bit call imho.
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Shame, we use rank tracker to be able to track keywords outside of a Campaign and be able to see the change on a daily basis. Sounds like I'll need to find another tool to be able to do this.
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The benefit of a specific Rank Tracker feature is so we could track a specific keyword anytime.
This is a bad decision.
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It is bad enough that unlike most SEO tool suites, one has to manually update each keyword in Rank Tracker for daily tracking. Removing the ability to track daily rankings renders MOZ useless to me. I will be cancelling my membership in favor of a tool that does.
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I concur with the other comments. We use Rank Tracker to track keywords for certain pages on our sites. This was an important part of our need for Moz, since the Campaigns tool does not do this. Given the exorbitant cost we pay for the Moz service, now that this isn't part of your service, we may have to look elsewhere.
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I'm also on the lookout. Please inform us if you found other service that offer similar services. Thanks!
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Hi there,
Thanks for following up with your feedback! At the moment, we don't have an immediate replacement for Rank Tracker in place, but as you mentioned we do have several places where you can check rankings. One would be in the Campaign, especially the Analyze a Keyword section which allows you to view the live SERP with the top 50 ranking sites. Another way to check live rankings is using Keyword Explorer. If you have a Keyword List there, you can check any URL for presence in the top 10 positions.
Another workaround for quick rankings gatherings would be to create a Campaign and add those keywords during setup. We'll do a quick rush collection and within a few hours you should see those results. You can then delete or archive that campaign if you no longer need it.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the removal of Rank Tracker. We have hopes to bring you better, faster, more accurate tools in the future (such as the brand new Link Explorer!), and we will certainly let the product team know that on-demand rank checking is high on your list.
Let us know if there's anything else we can do for you!
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Hey there! Sorry for any inconvenience here.
Unfortunately Rank Tracker was never super great at those daily rankings. There was some cached data involved, and it was never meant to be a full solution for daily ranking updates. We will be sure to let our product team know you'd like to see a daily ranking solution within the Moz tools.
Feel free to let us know if you have any other questions!
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Sorry to hear you're disappointed, Andry!
You can still use a Moz Pro Campaign to track keyword rankings over time — you'll just need to set up a Campaign to track the site whose rankings you'd like to see. You can also use Keyword Explorer to find out what keywords that site is already ranking for!
Give us a shout at help@moz.com if there's anything else we can help with.
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Hi there!
Thanks so much for reaching out with your feedback! We're sorry for any inconvenience. If you're looking to track keywords for specific, simple pages, you can use Keyword Lists as an alternative rather than Campaigns. There, you can check any URL to see if it is coming up in the top 10 positions. I have a guide here which can help get you started with that tool.
You can also use Keyword Explorer to see what keywords your specific pages and sites are already ranking for and compare them to other sites.
Hopefully these suggestions helps! If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to email us at help@moz.com. We're always here to help!
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Hey Jason, sorry for the inconvenience!
Rank tracker was never really intended for daily keyword rankings, which is the reason you had to do the tedious manually updating and even then there was some caching involved. I will certainly pass along your frustration with our product team. Let us know if you we can do anything to help make this transition easier!
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Hi Steven,
Thanks so much for reaching out with your feedback. We’re sorry for any inconvenience. If you’re looking to check live rankings for specific keywords and pages or sites, you can use Keyword Lists to accomplish this. Here, you can check any URL to see if it is in the top 10 positions for the keywords in your list.
Another tool you may find useful is the Analyze a Keyword section of your Campaigns. Within this tool, we’ll show you a live SERP with the top 50 rankings sites for any keyword you’re tracking in your Campaign.
Again, we’re so sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing but we do hope to continue to bring you better and more accurate tools in the future like our new Link Explorer tool and the updates to our Keyword explorer tool.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to send an email on over to help@moz.com!
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I can not find rank tracker. Is it going to be retired on June 8 or today?
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Hey there! You can find Rank Tracker here until June 8th: https://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker
Hope that helps! If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out to us at help@moz.com.
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Rank Tracker is the sole reason we purchased Moz Pro. We track ranks for keywords for a client and their top competitor, update them every Saturday, download the CSV and import into a spreadsheet that displays Six Sigma run charts. For about five years monthly presentation of these charts has been used to drive content changes.
What is driving this decision?
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Hey there Glenn! Thanks for your feedback.
As Kiki mentioned in her post, we have two tools that currently provide rankings - Rank Tracker and Campaigns. Campaigns are far and away the most robust way to track keywords for a client over time. We automatically recollect keyword rankings once per week within the Campaign, and offer customized reporting options for a wide range of keyword data views. Campaigns also have a complete historical rankings CSV that you can download at any time. Was there a particular use case you had for Rank Tracker that the keyword tracking within Campaigns is not able to cover?
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