UPDATE: Rank Tracker is NOT being retired!

[Motivators]

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[misterfla]

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.

[togardergrosse]

I'm also on the lookout. Please inform us if you found other service that offer similar services. Thanks!

[moz_support]

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!

[moz_support]

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!

[SMBSolutions]

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[tawnycase]

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.

[meghanpahinui]

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!

[dave.kudera]

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!

[meghanpahinui]

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!

[Chicagofan]

I can not find rank tracker. Is it going to be retired on June 8 or today?

[tawnycase]

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.

[GlennFerrell]

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?

[moz_support]

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?

[GlennFerrell]

What I will have to duplicate in Campaigns is shown below.  I assume this will require 4 campaigns (but I've been too busy this morning to try it -- so I don't know if it can be covered.)

We track 95 site/keyword pairs (allow growth to 150)  with a breakdown as follows:

• Track 55 keywords for site A (but for no subdomains of that site.)
• Track 35 keywords for site B (a competitor site)'
• Track 2 keywords for site C (a competitor site)
• Track 1 keyword for site D (a competitor site)
• Rankings are updated once a week on Saturday (could be any consistent weekday) and manually downloaded by CSV to be tracked and charted in an internal spreadsheet. Everything after that (charting, tracking) is internal and customized. Weekly tracking is important to keep the focus on trends rather that being distracted by one-time outliers.

[moz_support]

Hey Glenn!

Most of that should be achievable with the campaign crawl. The only limitation might be item A, as we currently do not have a function to exclude specific subdomains. You might be able to block rogerbot in those subdomains' robots.txt file to prevent us from crawling those areas of the site.

Weekly tracking is the default timeframe for campaigns, so that should be no issue! If you want to control when the crawl happens, you can create your campaigns on the day before you wish to receive data (it takes ~24 hrs to process new crawl information and populate it in the campaign).

If you have any other questions about settings things up, feel free to reach to us at help@moz.com!

[vjgoel07]

Why not just migrate the existing retired stuff to campaigns?  You're making us do that work and destroying the history?

I see no compelling rationale as to why you've asked your users to do this (and probably mess it up) vs. automating a migration path.

[JimboF250]

This is a frustrating change...as the search manager of my company I get ad hoc queries from dozens of users a day asking for specific keyword data...should i use "xyz123" or "123xyz" in the blog post I am creating etc.  We do thorough keyword research for the majority of our pages but there are some opportunities that we have where the rank tracker is the perfect tool for these ad-hoc situations...I don't have 3 or 4 hours for a report to run.  Moz is a great tool, but this was a great feature.

[RCF]

I'm not sure whether I'm using Rank Tracker or Campaigns. How can I tell which one I'm using?

[prima-253509]

I haven't used Rank Tracker very much in the last year but it has historically been useful to look up keywords outside of the core keywords we are tracking in our campaigns. It is not just that the tool is going away, it is also that the quota is being reduced in terms of what you can track. We recently upgraded our subscription so that we could track more keywords but now, in order to mimic the functionality of the Rank Tracker tool I would have to keep some keywords free and in reserve so that campaigns could be created on an ad-hoc basis. i.e. our 750 keyword limit on the campaigns is now essentially 700 if I want to keep open spots for ad-hoc keyword research that had been provided by the rank tracker (tracked over time) or 550 if I wanted to keep open the 200 rankings available on the daily cap.

Campaign limits are also going to be hit in regards to tracking domains for a keyword phrase as you can only add three competitor sites per campaign. It just isn't as functional for ad-hoc research as the Keyword Ranking tool was.

Are quotas going to be increased on campaigns to compensate for this (keywords available / campaign spots available)?

This is disappointing as it seems like a lot of features are disappearing / being sunset while costs are staying the same. If I am missing something about quotas let me know. Thanks!