1. 63 points via wayneb77 on Feb 12 2012  Flag    10 comments
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  • Tad Chef   Feb 12 2012   Flag

    Excellent list but keep in mind that nowadays due to social and personal search aka SPYW ranking checks are almost meaningless. So it's just for tracking trends not real life SERPs real people see in many cases.

  • Steven Weldler   Feb 12 2012   Flag

    Absolutely Tad. The real rank checking is traffic checking. But rank checking still is good as part of a larger reporting strategy.

  • Wayne Barker   Feb 13 2012   Flag

    You are right Tad, although there are a bunch of things you should be measuring and tracking its always going to have some significance - especially for clients who don't want to delve to deep into the real numbers that matter...

  • Gyi Tsakalakis   Feb 12 2012   Flag

    Location factors also are a huge influence. I like Advanced Web Ranking because of its location search engine feature.

  • Scott Krager   Feb 12 2012   Flag

    I find the value in rank tracking to see which tactics and changes I've been making to a site are moving keywords up in rankings. Even if that is just from 40 to 20. That type of movement won't show up in traffic data, but will in rankings data.

  • AlexRamadan   Feb 12 2012   Flag

    Awesome, just what I needed!

  • Hyderali Shaikh   Feb 12 2012   Flag

    Absolutely right Mr. Tad..Nowadays, people seems to be concentrating more on Traffic & Conversions. Rankings doesn't play an important role, but there are some clients who are still happy when they see their keyword rankings.Overall, nice list of keyword checking tool. I don't know but you forget to add Rank Tracker which provides not accurate but yes atleast 98% of accurate keyword ranking. Thanks for the list. -Hyderali

  • Khadim   Feb 13 2012   Flag

    Good list. Rank tracking is still a useful, especially when keyword rank tracking is tied up with traffic & conversions.

  • Dan Shure   Feb 13 2012   Flag

    Excellent comments guys! I'd put together the list after I asked people one day on G+ what rank checkers they liked, and there were way more than I realized. I'll be updating the list soon (people have added even MORE) rank checkers in the comments... thanks again. -Dan

  • rjonesx   Feb 14 2012   Flag

    Great list, although I have to say that I have pretty much resolved that Authority Labs is the end-all-be-all solution for my company. It is not to say that many of our clients don't do campaign management through SEOMoz and others (which we recommend to them), but our needs for rank checking vary so greatly (some times needing hundreds of thousands of results, some times just needing a couple), that the only real option for us is auth labs. We have slowly but surely integrated them into nearly all of our tools and never looked back.

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