Google shutting down Rank Tracking Software? - Raven and AHREFS close down ranking results.

[James77]

Hi,

I was wondering if other people had noticed the (very sudden) closing down of the ranking tools for both Raven and Ahrefs - both of which were major parts of their software. Given the sudden and synced timing my guess is that Google is throwing its weight around and banking on the doors of companies offering ranking software with the threat of a fat lawsuite!

What is everyone else using for their rank checking ?

Will this impact SEOMOZ ranking results ?

[JohnW-UK]

Weird I just asked the same question.... I hope this gets a lot of input from people.

[Asher]

I posted this in a previous question asked, so I hope this helps:

Traffic travis, but it is a software and i would recommend you get an ip switcher if you use it so that you don't get your ip banned.

Raven Tools and Ahrefs are discontinuing their rank checkers at the request of google last i heard.

SEM Rush is another tool that can track what keywords for your website as well.

Hope that helps.

[randfish]

Hi James - this change won't impact SEOmoz rankings. We're planning to maintain that data long term (as many other companies do. You might be interested to read my previous responses to this question a couple times at the URLs below:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-seomoz-ranking-in-jeopardy

http://www.seomoz.org/q/so-apparently-seo-moz-will-get-us-de-indexed-according-to-a-seo-company

Let me know if I can answer any other questions about this for you!

[James77]

Thanks Rand - that good to hear.