Some of the features described in this article might be available only for Tracked Campaigns. Learn more.
With SEOmonitor, you can instruct the rank tracker to scan all of the subdomains and even a secondary domain, when updating the rankings of a website.
How does this work?
Tracking domains and subdomains
By default, SEOmonitor tracks all subdomain ranks, when you create a new campaign. This means that it takes both domains and all subdomains into consideration and only shows the highest position for the one that ranks best.
Tracking domains only
If you don’t want subdomain rankings such as the ones for blog.website.com or m.website.com, you can de-select that through the Campaign Settings, after the initial setup. See how to access it below.
Note: The option of de-selecting subdomains is currently not available for draft campaigns. So, by default, the domain along with all subdomains, are considered for the snapshot data of the draft campaigns, and the one with the highest ranks is displayed. If you'd like to track only the domain and not subdomains, start tracking the campaign.
Tracking subfolders
If you track a folder/subfolder it will take into consideration the main domain, not the folder. So, the subfolder tracking would still take the ranks for the main domain.
But if you have connected your GA4, you can set up a traffic segment for a subfolder (as you have segments in Analytics) that pulls traffic hitting the subfolder, and not for the whole domain.
Tracking other owned media
In case you have other owned media, you can also track it within the same campaign, depending on your area of interest; for example, hubspot.com and inbound.com (their conference) are "other owned media" for each other.
To access these settings available for each campaign, go to the top-right dropdown with your username, select Campaign Settings and click on the Settings cog of each icon. You can then access these toggles from the General Settings tab of the sidebar.
The draft campaigns do not have the General Settings tab, so they don't give you access to these settings.
Use-case
Depending on how narrow or broad the SEO campaign you run, you can limit the tracking to one domain or subdomain, or also include micro-websites, mobile sites, blogs, stores, social media pages (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.), or apps associated with the brand.
Other notes
These settings do not impact the traffic to your site, we're only processing the data from the connected GA4 profiles.
For now, only 1 other tracked media can be added to the system.
You can use the Competition view in the Rank Tracker to separately analyze how the subdomains or other owned media are performing on the campaign’s tracked keywords.
If you're tracking the subdomain as "main" and choose to "track subdomains", it will not provide ranks for the main domain (or its other subdomains). Tracking only the subdomain provides ranks only for that.