Rankscanner.com ??? ever heard of them?

[PaddyDisplays]

I notice rankscanner.com in my referral data, and I assumed that it was referral spam at first, but there website says "Start monitoring your keywords now... it's free"

I have never heard of them and googling them does not bring up too much.  Anybody heard of them/ used them?

[TimHolmes]

I've personally not heard of them myself, but their site looks like a legitimate business. They probably have been doing some metacrawling of search engines which send searches to the major search engines to determine a sites rankings which they are collating or maybe even creating there own index data like moz.

As it is a free to paid service it is probably a way to get people on board, e.g. you have been digging into your analytics referrals a bit more and now might try their service.

I have also done a quick search and there appears to be a few blog/reviews of the service. Maybe give it a try!

Here is a review from back in Sept 2014.