Rank Tracker Review

What is Rank Tracker?

Rank Tracker is a powerhouse of a keyword rank checker tool that can show you where you rank for the keywords you care about most.

You can track your position in a variety of search engines and can focus on mobile or desktop or both.

The options are almost limitless!

Not only that – but you can find new keyword ideas, use it for generating content inspiration and so much more. Let’s take a peak at all the goodies that come with this powerhouse of a keyword rank tracker.

Pros

1) Tracks Rankings Pretty Accurately

Rank Tracker pulls in fresh data from the web. It basically scrapes search results. If you don’t have a working proxy, chances are, some of the search engines (such as Google) will block you off after a number of automated queries. What you’ll need is a good set of private proxies. I recommend Squidproxies.

Of course, having these private proxies means that there’s a monthly retainer you’ll have to pay. Bummer.

The good thing is, you can use those proxies for something else – get creative.

2) Can track Rankings from Virtually all Search Engines and lLocations

Rank tracker can be set to track rankings based on a specific search engine and location. They even have Youtube in the list.

You can track rankings specifically from Google.com.ph or from Bing ph or Yahoo ph. It’s a very convenient feature as I don’t need to manually scrape rankings when I’m tracking localized keywords.

3) Data can be Filtered and Sorted

This is a no-brainer. You can sort the spreadsheet with rankings or keywords or the number of visitors, etc.

You can also select which data columns show up on the spreadsheet and which do not.

Note: Rank Tracker will pull data regardless of whether it is shown in the spreadsheet or not.

4) Can show which page Ranks for the Certain Keyword

One of the things I love about Rank Tracker is that it shows you which page in the website ranks for which keyword. This gives you an idea as to which page in your website you could focus your efforts on – instead of second-guessing.

5) Can show Ranking History through a Line Graph

It’s quite fun to see how your SEO efforts and Google is dancing your rankings up and down against your competitors. It’s also quite helpful when a client wants to check a certain keyword or two and you could take a snapshot of your work in a line graph and show him/her.

Of course, this is assuming you’re doing a good job.

6) You can put in any Number of Keywords – to your Heart’s Desire

No limits. No increase in price whenever you exceed a certain number of keywords you want to track.

Of course, the more keywords you put in, the longer it will take to pull the data. It’s not really a case of ‘the more the merrier’.

Track smart.

Keyword Research

This part of the website will help you find keyword opportunities and there are too many parts of this section to cover each and every one, but below is a bit about what each one does.

Ranking Keywords – allows you to find keywords a website is ranking for
Keyword Gap – find keywords a competitor is ranking for but you are not
Search Console – collect the keywords you rank for from Search Console or Google Analytics
Keyword Planner – keyword ideas from Keyword planner
Autocomplete Tools – find keyword ideas from a variety of sources
Related Searches – related keywords to your input keyword that commonly show in the SERPS as related terms
Related Questions – check out People Also Ask and Questions Autocomplete to find questions people are asking about specific keywords
TF-IDF Explorer – allows you to find topic related keywords that are used most often by your competitors
Keyword Combinations – enter a keyword and play around with the options find other keyword opportunities
Keyword Sandbox – where all of your keyword research from above lands – this page has all the keywords in this one location so you can further refine your research

Competitor Research

This part of the tool does what it says – allows you to research your competitors to see what they are up to.

There are 3 sections in this part of the tool, so let’s cover those real quick!

Domain Competitors

Find the websites that are your most related competitors in terms of the keywords you rank for. Below we input Backlinko and you can see some of their top competitors and level of intersection they have with keywords.

Topic Competitors

Find out who you biggest competitors are for a specific topic. In the example below I entered “seo audit” just to see what pops up and you can see the list of pages that are competing for that term which will help me see if I can compete with the term.

The results show a variety of metrics to help me understand the competitiveness of the term to see if it makes sense for me to try and optimize for it and if I can – who I need to review to see how to beat them!

Top Pages

Find out the top pages for your competitors! As a test I entered Backlinko to see what his top pages are and below is the result of that search. You can see an estimate for their organic traffic, keywords ranking for each page, top keyword and more.

Rank Tracker Pricing

There are 3 levels – Free, Professional and Enterprise – for most Professional will be more than enough.

• Free – gives you a lot of what you get in the Pro version, but does not allow you to see the historical data for your tracking and performance.
• Professional (recommended) $124 per year – save your projects to the cloud, compare rankings with several competitors and see historical data.
• Enterprise $299 per year – for SEO agencies and professionals as it offers custom reporting options.

Keep in mind tools like Ahref and SEMrush are charging $100 and or more a month for similar functionalities.

The annual fee is for the API access and system updates. This is a great deal!