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Rank Tracker

Our commitment to providing fresh daily ranks on both devices as standard

Desktop & mobile ranks every 24H with a 99.9% SLA

How SEOmonitor pulls and processes Google Ads (Keyword Planner) Search Volume data, including the desktop and mobile searches split

Google Ads Search Volumes

How to reliably measure the SEO performance trend of a website on a specific list of keywords.

Reliable Visibility metric

Understand which keywords’ rank or volume changes influenced a campaign or group's Visibility trend

Visibility trend explainer

Google ranks and search volumes, for any market your client's business is targeting – anywhere in the world

Google keyword data, localized at a global, country, region, or city level

Understanding whether your website is currently ranking at its best and, if not, when its highest position was, for any tracked keyword

Tracking your all-time best ranks

Get Google ranking and search volume data for multiple locations, within the same client campaign

Multi-location tracking

The 12-month average search volumes are sometimes misleading. The year-over-year trends fix that.

Year-over-Year search trends

Understanding the right time to focus on keywords that generate most of their searches in just a few consecutive months of the year

Highly-seasonal keywords

How we track SERP features (and your presence in them) on a daily basis, and where you can access the associated data within our platform.

SERP feature detection & tracking

How to reliably measure the SEO performance trend of a website, on the most relevant SERP features for a list of keywords

SERP Feature Visibility metric

How we calculate and quantify the impact of the SERP Features on CTR, and how it can improve your SEO strategy and Forecast estimations.

Impact of SERP features on clicks: the % Clicks and CTR metrics

Understand how much traffic your tracked keywords generated in a specific timeframe

Organic traffic data on keywords in the Rank Tracker

Correlate the key performance metrics’ trends with events that might have influenced it.

Automatic & manual annotations

Automatically understand if your keywords' search intent is Informational, Commercial, Transactional, or Navigational (branded)

Keyword Search Intent

Keyword- and group-level metrics

Easily add a list of new keywords to be tracked in your SEOmonitor campaign

Adding keywords through a CSV import or copy-paste

With SEOmonitor, you can easily keep your keyword portfolio well-organized, so that it brings new levels of insight along the way.

Groups, folders, labels – 3 levels of keyword grouping

Automatically populated keyword groups based on filtering criteria or AI

Smart Groups – custom or predefined

See how you can analyze and organize your keywords with our advanced filters on Rank Tracker, with several practical examples.

How to organize your keywords using filters in the Rank Tracker

You don’t have to delete keywords or campaigns when you don’t need to track them any longer

Archive instead of delete

When switching to SEOmonitor, we migrate your ranking data from any rank tracker. Smoothly, without errors.

Ranking data migration from any other tool

Keyword management

Easily spot the keywords where your website has content issues that prevent it from ranking well.

Page issues detection

Quickly identify when your website is not ranking on a keyword with the landing page that you intended it to.

Desired landing page tracking

Easily discover keywords where there’s a significant discrepancy between their desktop and mobile ranks

Device rank discrepancy warning

Settings for taking all subdomains, another domain, or only a specific folder into account when updating ranking data for your campaign.

Tracking subdomains, folders & other owned media

Landing page features

Quickly analyze the top-ranking pages for a keyword

Top 100 results per keyword and their performance

Explore any competitor’s past ranking and Visibility performance on your tracked keywords.

All competitors always tracked

Quickly discover the websites that have the highest Visibility, on any list of tracked keywords (group).

Top competitors by Visibility

Competition analysis features

Quickly find out if there’s a known issue with the SEOmonitor platform

System Status Page

So you can always trust the ranking data you get from SEOmonitor (when there is no active public incident)

Fail-safe rank tracking system

Avoid being misled by Google Ads search volume data when using it for SEO purposes (rather than Paid Search directly)

Google Ads search data calibration systems

Highlighting misleading, irrelevant keywords that might have infiltrated your keyword portfolio

Irrelevant keyword detection

Easily spot potentially misleading keywords that you should be aware of (within your tracked ones)

Automatic labels (warnings) on misleading keywords

Double-check and trust the SERP and ranking data provided by SEOmonitor

SERP Discrepancy Checker (Chrome extension)

Cross-reference the processed SERP & ranking data with the actual SERP extracted by our crawlers.

Download SERP HTML

Avoid mixing branded keywords with non-branded ones, so you won't be distorting the campaign- or group-level metrics

Branded keywords detected & automatically-separated

Accuracy-ensuring features

Quickly get fresh keyword data on the new keywords you've researched and started tracking

Real-time processing of new keywords

Understand the correlation between keyword rank changes and landing page content changes

The Content Tracker

Understand the effort it would take to rank in the top 10 positions, with a given website, for any keyword.

Keyword Difficulty

Prioritize your keywords based on how difficult it would be to improve their rankings and how much additional traffic they’ll generate then

SEO Opportunity

Use dedicated interfaces which are best suited for each process where you need the Rank Tracker

Specialized views for Strategy, Competition & Keyword Management

Power features

We consider the Authority to be the estimated monthly organic traffic a page makes, based on keyword rankings and search volumes.

Topical Authority

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