UPDATE: Rank Tracker is NOT being retired!

[prima-253509]

I should also add that the Keyword Explorer tool is awesome and one of the best things about Moz Pro. So kudos with that tool. Incorporating the rank tracker into the Keyword explorer would make sense to me from a UX point of view (more than just the first page, change over time, etc). Just a thought

[BlueprintMarketing]

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.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Rember

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.

[myke_larson]

Thanks Moz Crew for All You Do,

The pop up that served this upcoming change initially offered a thumb Up/Down vote, which I voted down. I've been on this platform for 5 years and this is consistently the ONE tool worth every penny of subscription. _There was a tool before that could be added to Firefox and I know I'm not the only one who has used it, which would do much the same unless Google decided to stop serving your ip address with results. It was free and it worked great when it worked. Firefox updates killed the add on I think just this past year, but it was not as reliable and consistent as the data here. _

While I've maintained campaigns in the past, I don't need to use them consistently. I don't need them like I need a lightweight real time keyword rank check. This is a DAILY tool for myself and others like me.

Keyword Explorer, while great for sorting, managing, maintaining lists and more, is just not enough with 'not on first page' being the rank of anything beyond 10. I'm sure I'm not the only analyst to go and fill in all of those spaces on the csv I export, with my results from the Rank Tracker. I've used the 200 available in a day before and had to wait for a reset. This is an incredibly important tool and I realize I may be in a minority opinion here.

The truth is that this removal doesn't streamline or make our lives easier as consultants and analysts. If you actively use a campaign to track a specific client you work with, great, by all means adjust your branded keywords and manage your tracking effectively for that client.

However, some of us use this tool for checking rankings in specific markets for potential clients and helping to gauge whether or not campaigns (whether my campaign or another company) is at all effective.

Link Explorer is an amazing step forward and I could not compliment the versatility enough. I look forward to the growth of this utility.

I'm hoping that this will be reconsidered or even replaced after all.

Myke

P.S. My phone camera died on this trip, this was the absolute last image I was able to manage. Moz On Folks and thanks for all the hard work Rand Fishkin.

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[andyferrett]

Has anyone found any alternatives to Moz yet, which provide daily rankings updates across multiple domains?

Many Thanks,

Andy

[moz_support]

Hi there Vijay,

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately there is not a way to easily migrate that data on the backend, as they are pretty separate tools. Apologies for the inconvenience!

[tawnycase]

Hey there, 
Tawny from Moz's Help team here. 
I'm really sorry to hear that Rank Tracker going away is going to hit you so hard. I know that Campaign tracking isn't an ideal solution for ad hoc rank checking, but you can also use Keyword Explorer to see the first 10 SERP positions for any keyword (it's a live SERP report, so it fluctuates in real time).

I wish we had a better solution for those ad hoc searches you're describing. Please let us know if there's anything else we can do to help.

[tawnycase]

Hey there!

If your URL says "analytics" in it, you're using a Moz Pro Campaign, and you'll see a left-hand navigation panel. If you're using Rank Tracker, you'll be at this URL: https://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker, and you'll just see Rank Tracker, no left-hand navigation.

I hope that helps! If you still have questions, feel free to give us a shout at help@moz.com.

[tawnycase]

Hi Joshua, 
Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.

I definitely understand where you're coming from with the loss of functionality. At this time we're not planning on increasing limits for Moz Pro subscriptions, but we're collecting all the feedback we can about retiring Rank Tracker before we make any final decisions about the future of the tools.

If you've still got any questions we can help with, feel free to reach out to us at help@moz.com.

[moz_support]

Thanks for the great feedback, Myke!

We definitely hear your need for a lightweight, on-demand ranking tool. The specifics around your use cases are extremely helpful, and our product team will be sure to take all of this into account. While we don't have an immediate replacement to announce for some of that functionality, we recognize that it's important to your process.

Thanks, and let us know if you have any additional feedback on how you currently use the tool!

[climber17]

I'm equally disappointed in the retirement of Rank Tracker.  Weekly updates of our most important 2-dozen keywords is fully inadequate for our purposes.  Using Keyword Lists is just not going to cut it.  Cumbersome and only reports if KW is in top 10.

Please keep Rank Tracker around, even if it is in a dark corner of the website where us long time customers can find it.

[moz_support]

Thanks for the feedback!

Right now all of our keyword tracking tools, including Rank Tracker are meant to update on a weekly basis. Rank Tracker was never meant to provide daily rankings, and the rankings it does show for daily checks are not accurate due to caching.

We do realize there is a gap for one-off checks that Rank Tracker was particularly good for. But we would love to hear more about the ways you used Rank Tracker, and what functionality it provided that was valuable to your workflow. Thanks!

[Eluscious.com]

I understand that I can add keywords to campaigns, but how can I make a report of these keywords and show the positions of the pages in Google? This was a piece of cake in the Rank Tracker, but I have no idea how to use it now.

Rank Tracker is one of the main reasons we use MOZ, so if you don't offer a solution to this issue, I am affraid we have to look for another SEO monitoring tool.

I just need to watch the development of our Search Engine positions on a weekly basis.

[vital_hike]

The benefit of rank tracker is the speed with which I can quickly check on a keyword idea that I have for client who we have not yet signed up or just an idea that comes into my head. The benefits to being able to process my idea quickly by jumping onto Rank Tracker without the need to laboriously go through a campaign has been enormous. The convenience of quickly checking a keyword position to get that information is superb. I dont always want to have a campaign running in order to get ranking data. We reularly check something quickly and it tended to be one off situations. We are more than happy with the tracking within a full blown campaign but removing this is not helpful because i dont see this functionality elsewhere.

We also use this as a quick tool to get us data for a meeting or discussing with prospective new clients when short of time. Sometimes even in real time while talking on the phone. They are always impressed. Sadly missed!!!

[moz_support]

Hi there!

You have a few different options for creating a report from your campaign's tracked keywords. The easiest is to set up a Custom Report, which will automatically generate on a weekly or monthly basis. You can read more about setting those up here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/custom-reports

You can also download your historical keyword ranking CSV from within your campaign at any time. Just head to the Rankings section and scroll down to the Tracked Keywords Overview, then find the button to export the CSV.

If you have any questions about setting any of that up, feel free to reach out to us at help@moz.com.

[IanWatson]

Hey everyone!

As the Update of this post states, we have decided to not retire Rank Tracker until we can fully support the functionality it provides to you and your workflows.

Really do appreciate all of the feedback and we are hopeful you will provide a bit more in the Rank Tracker survey. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any other questions or concerns.

[rickyp04]

Is Rank Tracker going to be added back to the menu under 'Moz Pro'?

[andyferrett]

Great news, thanks Ian. At Brightec we use Rank Tracker on a daily basis.

[togardergrosse]

I'm really happy that you guys decided to postpone the retirement (hopefully never) of Rank Tracker.

Already filled-in the survey, and hope many of us will do the survey too, so MOZ will really understand why we need this feature.

Again, many thanks for hearing our voices.

Best regards.

[IanWatson]

Hey Rick,

It should be back in the navigation. Please let me know if you are not seeing it there.