Last Update: May 31, 2017 by Dan Shure.
Are you experiencing the same headaches I was trying to find rank tracking software?
There are some tools that work great at certain tasks but terrible at others. I regularly do heavy keyword research (1000’s and 1000’s of keywords) for clients. So I need something that can run search engine rankings quickly.
Back in 2012, I was struggling so hard to find a rank checker I was happy with – I went on over to Google Plus (where people *gasp* actually interacted back then!) and asked for recommendations on rank trackers for SEO.
Here is my original post from back then…
WOW! The feedback was phenomenal – and it was the start of what would be the most complete list of SERP tools I know.
Below is, what I think is the best rank tracking tool, plus features, price and links to 20+ others currently on the market (we update/review this list frequently, so all of the info should be up to date!)
First, here’s what I look for in a rank checker (I’m pretty picky).
Features I Look For In An Online Rank Checker
“On-demand” vs Campaign
This is the biggest categorical difference to me, in all rank checkers – that is, whether they allow on-demand rank checking (you can run one-off’s) or campaign based rank checkers (also called rank trackers). For on-demand ranking checking, I am using it for things like keyword research or competitive research; ie I am trying to figure out what the keywords should be. For campaign based position tracking, this is obviously to track this important KPI over time.
Volume
The ability to run hundreds if not thousand of keywords is important, especially if you’re working on larger sites. Oftentimes I’m in the middle of keyword research and would like to judge search volume against rankings and all the other metrics, so I’d like to run those hundreds of words through and get the volume back into the spreadsheet quickly.
Exportable To Excel / CSV
Goes without saying! Gimme that data in a spreadsheet!
Cost
This is last because, well, if a tool is good enough and saves me time, its usually VERY much worth the cost. Cost for SEO tools usually makes up for its self quite easily – so while cost is a factor, its not a big one.
The Ultimate List of Rank Checkers
My Top Pick: Authority Labs
(Note: I have been happily using Authority Labs since August 2012)
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign (however rankings are usually available within an hour or two after adding keywords – and I also love that Authority Labs focuses entirely on daily rank tracking)
Volume: 1,000 – unlimited
Export: Lots you can do with the API as well as CSV exports
Price: $99 – $450 / month
Website: authoritylabs.com (Disclaimer: now an affiliate link. Since compiling this list I have been using Authority Labs for well over four years and feel 100% confident to use this link as an endorsement.)
Tutorial: Authority Labs recently published some neat ways you can use their ranking data.
NEW: In 2014 Authority Labs added their “Now Provided” report. This has been pure gold for me. “Unknown unknown keywords with opportunity can be really hard to come by but this report does a fantastic job at doing so. This post gives you an overview of the features.
NEW 2017: I created a quick tutorial on Now Provided!
Via: Dustin Thompson / Wil Reynolds
SEO Book Rank Checker Plugin (Firefox Only)
On-Demand vs Campaign: On demand, although I believe you can set up scheduled reports
Volume: 100 at a time
Export: Yes to CSV
Price: Free
Website: tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
Via: Dan Shure
Moz PRO Campaign
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 300, 750, 1,900 or 7,500
Export: Yes
Price: $99, $149, 249 or $599 /month (and you also get their entire suite of software, training videos etc)
Website: http://moz.com
Via: Dan Shure
Advanced Web Ranking – Cloud
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 2,000-35,500
Export: Yes
Price: $49 – $499 / month
Website: https://www.
Via: Marc Levy via this article on rank checkers
SEMrush
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign (although SEMrush has a lot of existing ranking data)
Volume: 500-6,000
Export: Yes
Price: $99.95-$549.95 or custom/enterprise
Website: https://www.semrush.com/features/position-tracking/*
Free Trial: Free 14 Day Trial! That link will take you to a page where you can sign up for a free PRO account for 14 days.
Via: Dan Shure
*Affiliate link. Although not my primary Ranking tool – SEMrush is by far one of my all time favorite SEO and keyword tools. This is a deal for the cost and they have a lot of top-notch features in their tool set.
Link Assist / SEO Power Suite – Rank Tracker
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Yes (Enterprise Version)
Price: $124.75-$299.75 (Apparently ongoing fees, but can not find on their site)
Website: http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/
Via: Google Search
Raven Tools
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Yes
Price: $99, $249 / month
Website: https://raventools.com/seo-tools/
Via: Dan Shure
NOTE: Raven’s rank tracker is powered by Authority Labs. UPDATE 8/24/2013: It appears now that Raven pulls ranking data from Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools. So not a “true” rank checker as far as I can tell.
Microsite Masters
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 10-5,000 or unlimited
Export: All paid versions
Price: Free-$299 / month – $599+ for custom unlimited plans
Website: www.micrositemasters.com
Via: Melissa Rubin
Sistrix
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: Not sure
Export: Yes
Price: $133 – $535 a month (free trial available)
Website: www.sistrix.com/toolbox/
Via: Alessio Madeyski
Search Metrics
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 10,000+
Export: Yes, with credits
Price: $69/mth or price by Request
Website: http://www.searchmetrics.com/suite/#pricing-searchmetrics
Via: Alessio Madeyski
SEO SERP Chrome Extension
On-Demand vs Campaign: On Demand
Volume: 1 (but multiple sites for each keyword)
Export: Yes
Price: Free
Website: Chrome Extension Store Page
Via: Alessio Madeyski
(Note: December 2016 – I do not think this plugin is being maintained any longer)
Bright Edge
(Thanks to Harris Schachter for providing this info!)
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both. The data is pulled once a week, but can also be pulled daily at an extra cost. Additionally, you can access the data on-demand, whether the actual rankings are from that week or that day (however you have it set up).
Volume: no limits for keyword count (no minimums or maximums).
Export: Yes. Raw data can be exported via CSV and Dashboards can be exported via PDFs.
Price: Varies by account type and features. (In some regard there is an a-la-carte style of pricing with the number of keywords, number of tracked competitors, number of domains tracked, etc. However, I would say the price point is only relevant for enterprise teams).
Website: http://www.brightedge.com/search-engine-analytics/daily-rank-tracking
Via: Anthony D. Nelson
Google Docs / ImportXML
On-Demand vs Campaign: On Demand
Volume: 50 (limit to importxml commands in one G-Doc)
Export: Yes, already in spreadsheet
Price: Free
Website: This post by Tom should get you started.
Via: Dan Shure / Tom Critchlow
RankRanger
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 350 – 2,000+
Export: Yes, to PDF, Word, HTML or Excel
Price: $69, $199, $199+ / month (free trial available)
Website: https://www.rankranger.com/rank-tracker
Via: Marc Levy
Traffic Travis
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 50 per domain/project – purchase available for unlimited downloads
Export: Not sure
Price: Free or Premium (not sure of cost)
Website: www.traffictravis.com
Note: as of 8/24/2013 they now recommend http://www.affilorama.com/tools for Mac users (free trial available)
Via: Tim Capper
Rank Watch
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 250-7500 or Custom
Export: Their sites says Whitelabel Reports (not sure about .csv’s etc)
Price: $28-499 or Custom
Website: https://www.rankwatch.com
Via: Thomas Harvey
Market Samurai
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 50 with one time $149 fee, monthly packages for more.
Export: Yes
Price: $149 one-time cost (no monthly cost)
Website: www.marketsamurai.com
Via: Dan Bochichio
Conductor
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign. They are able to pull on a daily basis as well. Their packages allot a certain number of daily checked keywords so that extremely important ones can be tracked every day. I’d start here.
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Yes
Additional Services: They also provide accelerated services to customers to get implementation help with the product as well as SEO guidance for companies that do not have either a robust team or an SEO expert on hand.
Price: By Request (free demo)
Website: http://www.conductor.com/features/visibility-performance/
Via: JenMarie Robustelli and Conductor.
getStat
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign (although it says ‘real time’)
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Yes
Price: By Request
Website: https://getstat.com/take-the-tour/
Via: Mike King
SEO Diver
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 50 keywords each domain / 3 domains (.05 cents extra word)
Export: Yes
Price: $49 – $129 / month
Website: www.seodiver.com/keyword-monitor
Via: Seodiver! (Thanks!)
ZoomRank
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 10-100 up to unlimited
Export: Yes (email delivery too)
Price: $7 – $25 or custom / month
Website: https://zoomrank.com/
Via: Corey Eulas
Rank Tracker (duh!)
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both it Seems
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Premium Only
Price: Free – $299.75 (one time cost – this is desktop software)
Website: www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/features.html
Via: Logan Thompson
RankTrackr
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 50-1000 or custom
Export: All levels, PDF and CSV
Price: $15.20-79.20/month or custom
Website: http://ranktrackr.com/
Via: Alaj at RankTrackr
SerpFox
On-demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 10-5000
Export: Yes
Price: $10 – $300 / month
Website: https://serpfox.com/
Via: Glen (ViperChill)
TinyRocketLab
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 100-2000
Price: $19-119/month
Website: https://www.tinyranker.com/
Via: Per Allerup
Rankinity
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both (Real time tracking available)
Volume: Completely custom – more like an ‘on demand’ tool. Says to contact them for more than 1,000 keywords.
Price: about $10 a month to track 100 keywords daily. VERY flexible, customizable pricing. I suggest you take a look here.
Website: http://rankinity.com/
Via: Rankinity
Web CEO
On-Demand vs. Campaign: Both
Volume: 200-2000 or unlimited
Price: $99 – $499/mth or custom. Discounts available.
Website: https://www.webceo.com/online-rank-checker.htm
Via: Allen MacCannell at Web CEO
Positionly
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 100-12,000 or customized
Price: $15-$399/mth or custom
Website: https://positionly.com/features
Via: Krystian at Positionly
SerpBook
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 25-5000 per domain (75-15,000 on demand updates)
Price: $6.95 – $329.97/mth
Website: http://serpbook.com/
Via: Glen (ViperChill)
cognitiveSEO
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 1,500-13,500 or unlimited
Price: $99-$999/mth – free trial available
Website: http://cognitiveseo.com/ranktracker/
Via: Razvan @ cognitiveSEO
SERPs.com
On-Demand Vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 300, 1000, 25000-100000+ (custom)
Export: Yes
Price: $49, $99 or custom
Website: https://serps.com
Ezee Rank Tracker
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 15 (free) to unlimited
Export: Yes
Price: Free/lifetime to $19.99/month – or $99/lifetime
Website: http://ezeeranktracker.com/
SEO Rank Monitor
SERPWoo
On-demand VS Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 750-4000
Export: None while in Beta, but its coming in the next update
Price: $49.95-$199.95 / month
Website: https://www.serpwoo.
Agency Analytics
Nozzle
Pro Rank Tracker
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 300-50,000
Export: Yes, API also
Price: $19-$899/month
Website: https://proranktracker.com/
Via: Anthony Nelson
RankTracker.com
On-Demand va Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 100 – Unlimited
Export: Yes, CSV
Price: $19-399/month and free trial
Website: https://www.ranktracker.com/
Via: Felix at RankTracker.com
Georanker
BrightLocal
Serpstat
On-demand VS Campaign: Both. You can run one-off’s or you can run a daily rank tracking. What is more, Serpstat gives an opportunity to track competitors’ positions for your target keywords without having to create another project or spend extra limits.Keywords: 200 – unlimited
Export: Yes. CSV, Exel. Also, you can use API.
Price Range: $19 – $299 per month (additionally, there are several business plans – $499 – $2,500 per month)
Free Trial: Yes (1 domain to track + competitors’ domains; 10 keywords per day)
Website: https://serpstat.com/
Nightwatch
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 100 – 10,000
Export: Yes – PDF, CSV, or HTML
Price: $19 – $699 per month (free trial available)
Website: https://nightwatch.io/rank-
Via: Aljaž Fajmut at Nightwatch
What’s My SERP
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 10-000 keywords per domain / unlimited domains
Price: Free up to 10 keywords
Website: https://whatsmyserp.com/
Via: WhatsMySERP!
Let’s Keep This List Going!
Please drop a recommendation in the comments! I hope to add to this list, not only more software choices but some other key factors. Also, you may notice some info is missing, or I wasn’t sure, please feel free to fill me in and I’ll update it!
UPDATE: I also came across this discussion in the Moz Q&A about rank checking software – valuable read as well!
Thanks to EVERYONE who chimed in earlier on Google Plus!!
NOTE About Unsolicited Emails
If you are the owner of a rank tracker, do feel free to email me. But please know I get a LOT of requests to add software to this list, and I can only add your tool if your website and tool looks to meet a certain quality level. I need to put a little editorial cap on the tools listed here to keep the page value, so please understand that I may not always be able to add every suggestion. Thanks!
This article was originally published January 24th, 2012
January 24, 2012
Benjamin Beck
Great list Dan! Do you ever get different rankings for the same keyword on the different tools?
January 24, 2012
Marc Levy
@benjamin – we definitely see that every so often, atm not only are we seeing different ranking positions but different URLs displaying in some cases. Rank checking is so difficult in todays SERPs, simply too much going on to ever be 100% accurate. Rankings can change from minute to minute, different results based on search location, personalization, G+ etc…
Great post Dan, enjoyed being involved.
January 24, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks Marc! I really appreciate your involvement!
January 23, 2014
Chris Vinson
Cute Rank does about 100 and then stops. Otherwise pretty good.
August 28, 2014
Gyi Tsakalakis
We’ve used most of these. As Marc notes, 100% accuracy is literally impossible. Unfortunately, the accuracy issue, in my experience, is a bigger problem than the “rank tracking industry” would have us believe.
In the end, if you’re going to report on rankings to clients, you better spend a lot of time setting expectations about these tools. I’d also encourage you to accentuate the business metrics of SEO and downplay rankings for any particular keyword/keywords. It’s a frustrating situation, but the reality is that you’re likely to do more harm reporting on rankings that just aren’t that accurate… Anyway, my .02.
Thanks for the great list Dan.
August 28, 2014
Dan Shure
Hey Gyi
Completely agree (and think you saw my video talking about this). I use rankings more as a technical metric than anything else, and think it can be dangerous to report because of a) lack of accuracy b) lack of actionability and c) they don’t always correlate to increased marketing and business goals.
January 24, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks Ben! I have not seen much difference actually. Local search is where it gets tricky of course, that is where I tend to see it different. But I honestly haven’t branched out that far with rank checkers yet (thus this post), so I am curious to see how they handle it differently.
March 27, 2016
Dmitrii Udimov
Hi, Dan.
Please add Topvisor Rank Tracker to your ultimate list.
Topvisor
On-Demand Vs Campaign: On-Demand & Campaign
Volume: unlimited
Export: CSV
Price: Flexible. up to $0.005 per 1 keyword
Website: https://topvisor.com/rank-tracker/
January 24, 2012
Uwe
SEO DIVER
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 50 / 3 domains (.05 cents extra per word)
Period: monitoring on daily basis
Export: Yes (xls & csv)
Price: $99 – $129 / month
Website: http://www.seodiver.com/keyword-monitor
January 24, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks! I’ve added you in above 🙂
January 24, 2012
Corey Eulas
Campaign (so flexible)
Volume: As high as you can go
Period: Daily
Export: Yes, e-mail delivery automatically too.
http://www.zoomrank.com
$7 – $25/mo
January 24, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks Corey! I added ZoomRank above… I’m glad you commented, I’d forget the name and you just told me last week. 🙂
January 24, 2012
Cedric
Spyranks
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 10-unlimited
Export: Yes
Price: $2.5 – $300 / month
Website: http://www.spyranks.com
January 25, 2012
Ted Ives
Great roundup Dan, had not heard of a number of those.
My favorite inexpensive one: SheerSEO – a ton of different price points, checks both rank and PageRank values, includes some new keyword density analysis. Skips tracking competitors which I agree with – who has time to look at them anyway – just worry about your own ranks.
getSTAT is definitely the best one out there, bar none, for position tracking *at scale*, if you need to track multi-thousands of keywords it’s the way to go.
Also – for free (!) – the Bulk Rank Checker at Search Engine Reports – great when you want to check a few terms out really quick without setting anything up:
http://searchenginereports.net/
– Ted
January 25, 2012
Magicyoyo
Another good one;
SeeUrank :
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: unlimited
Export: Yes
Price: 39$ to 69$ /month
Website: http://en.yooda.com
January 22, 2013
Terry
Powerfull tool ! Wonder why it’s so unknown ??
January 26, 2012
Suzanne McDonald
thanks for sharing this list, Dan, super-helpful
How about adding a category for usability? For example, which would be best for a small business owner who just wants to see where things stand?
January 26, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks Suzanne! Yes, I was going to fill out the list with more categories soon. Perhaps a small/medium/large type rating would help. I was also thinking of adding things like; proxy, competitive domain tracking, report generating, etc… great idea thanks!
-Dan
January 26, 2012
Suzanne McDonald
Maybe do another post (or series) highlighting the best tools for which types of users. Starting with SMBs might be good for business. They may start tracking and realize they need more help. Just a thought!
January 27, 2012
Eric Nagel
If you need to get rank via an API, you can use Raven Tools (API docs at https://api.raventools.com/docs/ )
If you need some pre-written PHP code, I shared how to build a Google rank checker at http://www.ericnagel.com/resources/google-rank-checker-api.html
February 1, 2012
Dan
Great list Dan, glad I finally “caught up” on my reading (I’m only 5 days behind now!) I hadn’t even heard of 3 or 4 of these, definitely good to have new options available for something as touchy as rank checking, especially for those clients who are extra… “fun” and want multiple layers of checks in place.
February 1, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks! That’s a great point, sometimes multiple sources of data are needed, so good to have plenty of options!!
February 3, 2012
Ryan
This is the ultimate list. Raven Tools and SEOmoz is all you really need.
February 3, 2012
Jonathan
Here’s one for the list:
http://sescout.com/
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign (although it updates hourly so if you have free slots on it and patience you could use it for on demand)
Volume: Varies according to price plan, 10 keywords/10 domains for free. Up to 1500 keywords/1500 domains on the top level package.
Export: Yes – both to .pdf for pretty reporting and .csv for analysis.
Price: Free to $99.97/month
Website: http://sescout.com
Features vary quite a lot depending on price package to best to head over and check it out.
April 2, 2012
Terrym
I just dropped seout.com the rankings are very accurate but the support is next to non-existent. It would not be a big deal if they could make the reports work. The PDF and email reports do not work… As an agency I can’t use this because of the lack of reports.
February 10, 2012
Adarsh Thampy
Dan,
Thanks for the list.
You may want to update Market Samurai listing. They will soon introduce a monthly pricing for rank checks. Currently you can check from your system (Too many keywords and you’ll get a temporary ban).
February 12, 2012
Tad Chef
What about the good old old Free Monitor for Google? It’s been around for a decade and it still suffices for average webmasters.
Similarly there is CuteRank which has even more advanced features. For those who only check their own site’s positions they are OK.
Then there is Web CEO. It has even more features and had a free version as well last time I checked (years ago).
February 12, 2012
Gyi Tsakalakis
Nice Dan.
We use several of these. One advantage of Advanced Web Ranking (AWR) is the ability to specify location searches (emulating browser location settings). That combined with proxy servers provides more accurate local reporting.
February 12, 2012
Bjorn Solstad
Interesting list. I built my own tool for it in Filemaker Pro that runs 24 hours a day in an eternal loop. To check the 800 phrases I currently check, I needed 10 proxy IP-addresses for it to not run in to Google’s automatic search algorithm and some randomizing of times.
With a bit of tweaking every now and then of the PHP-script we built for it, it gives us close to 100% accurate results with a lot of country specific searches.
Not really hard to do, but is saving us a ton of time.
February 12, 2012
Michael Borgelt
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Yes (email delivery too)
Price: $20-$150/month (white label solution available)
Website: http://www.mykeywordrankings.com
Successfully tracks Organic and Google Local rankings.
Etc: Track Unlimited Domains, Unlimited Users, Multiple Level of Logins
February 12, 2012
Tyler Herrick
I should point out that Advanced Web Ranking is $99-$599 per Year, not per Month; with no volume restrictions. Up to 99 proxies is really your bottleneck at the point where volume starts to matter.
February 12, 2012
Mathias
Thanks for this list, it’s quite useful. Among the free ones, there is also http://rankchecker.net/ it’s the one I use fromt time to time.
February 12, 2012
Ray Grieselhuber
Great post, Dan.
Ginzametrics (I’m the CEO) might be a mixture of on-demand and campaign-based, if I understand your definitions.
We provide daily rankings and new keyword ranking data is often available within a few minutes. We then manage these keywords on a campaign basis for you going forward.
Here are some stats about us:
Market: Enterprise (comparable with BrightEdge and Conductor)
Volume: Unlimited (depending on plan)
Export: Brandable PDFs, Excel, CSV, API for ranking data and more.
Price: $199-$2,500 (with additional bulk data plans available)
February 12, 2012
Lars Hildahl
I did a small scale comp a couple of months ago. I ended up liking SErank from Rage Software the best. I try to avoid monthly subscriptions if possible.
February 12, 2012
Shawn
Looks like this list is missing what is probably the largest (and one of the oldest)…
http://tools.digitalpoint.com/tracker
Over 100,000 registered users tracking over 3,000,000 keyword rankings back to 2003 (~250,000,000 points of data in the system).
Volume: unlimited domains/keywords
Export: Yes
Supports both on-demand and campaign checking
Uses search engine APIs to (no scraping).
Cost: Free to search up to 20 position deep. Beyond that, it’s premium membership ($10-25/month depending on term).
As a bonus, there’s a link tracking mode as well to track historical changes in the number of links a site has, it’s PageRank and how much content is indexed.
February 13, 2012
Khadim
Here’s one, SearchEnabler SEO platform designed to suit start-ups & small businesses
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 50 / 1 domain – 500 / 5 domains
Export: Weekly Rank summary in Email
Price: $15 – $49 / month
Website: http://www.searchenabler.com/blog/keyword-rank-tracking-and-mail-reports/
February 13, 2012
Khadim
Forgot to mention, SearchEnabler ties traffic data with keyword rank tracking. It helps in understanding performance of keywords.
Planning to include conversions in coming iterations.
February 13, 2012
Fraser Cain
Here’s another:
Keyword Strategy
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: Unlimited
Export: CSV, Excel, Txt
Price: $29/month for 2 domains
Referrer-based tracking is passive so it doesn’t violate Google’s terms of service. Can essentially pull the ranking data in realtime as searchers reach the website.
February 14, 2012
Jim Watson
Agree with Tad above – CuteRank is superb – can access a huge amount of different countries too.
April 29, 2014
Erik Drechtschalker
i used to be a fan of cuterank but switched over to EzeeRank recently after looking for a tool that covers more social platforms than Google+, FB and TW. Eventually came up with Ezeerank; it tracks unlimited projects and keywords for 188 countries, has moz integrated, ranking updates and graph charts with whitelabel reports and you can pay a one time price. Solid support and a team that updates constantly, never had issues always assist right away. What i really like is that its a desktop application just like CuteRank, every rank tracker out there is really overpriced and webbased.
February 16, 2012
Jeremy
Just thought I’d mention that above it looks like the $99 plans for Raven Tools and SEOmoz are:
Raven Tools: 1000 keywords
SEOmoz: 300 keywords
This is a little misleading because SEOmoz lets you TRACK 300 keywords, which means they will run for all search engines weekly. With Raventools as soon as you run one keyword on 3 engines one time you’re down to 997, so really, assuming you’re using the tools with 3 engines to their max it looks more like:
Raven Tools: 1000 keywords
SEOmoz: 3,897 = 300*3*4.33 (average # of weeks / month)
Not too mentions that you also have the ability to use the keyword tool in research tools for on-demand which has a limit of 200/day, so technically if you use this tool it brings SEOmoz up to 9,980 keywords / month – quite different from 300.
Anyway, good post. I’m new to the SEO biz and have been a subscriber to SEOmoz since December and it’s starting to look more and more useless to me. Keyword tracker is nice, and the community is great but I despise open site explorer. Think I’m going to end up ditching SEOmoz in favor of Raven and supplement keyword rankings with SEscout.
February 21, 2012
Seoptimer
Thanks for that great list. I propose to add a WebCEO to the list. They have a really cool rank checker, in both online and desktop version.
March 15, 2012
Ryan Kent
Really nice list Dan. Thanks for the thorough research and taking the time to share your findings.
May 6, 2012
Francesco
Take a look also to http://www.allorank.com.
Totally free, without registration.
May 10, 2012
rambabu seo
Thanks dan to bringing this to here from your marketing folks . . yes these are really some of the most reliable rank checker tools which every SEO should know!
May 29, 2012
seo_mark
Wow, what a comprehensive and fresh overview. I though I’d mention Rankpanel.
Although they have no custom keyword tracking you can look at all the 500,000 keywords they track for free:
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 500,000
Export: No
Price: Free
worthwhile to check them out on http://www.rankpanel.com
February 23, 2017
MIlosz
Not working anymore?
June 2, 2012
Stellar Skarsgard
I’ve used Market Samurai and it’s easily one of my favorites. I’m also a big fan of the SEO for Firefox plugin.
I’ve worked on Google Ad Planner. It’s okay but it’s not very accurate when it comes to small websites.
This is a very well-researched list you have here.
October 16, 2012
riisager
Great list!!
Maybe it falls a little outside the category – but I refer my clients to http://www.impersonal.me when they want to check the rankings themselves
December 8, 2012
James
Good list – I’d like to add that Raven no longer offers rank tracking but we do – JetRank.com.
We can cater to agencies as well, offering discount for high volume users.
Thanks!
– James
December 22, 2012
Solomon Kleinsmith
Whoosh Traffic should be on here. Very user friendly, and cheaper than almost everything on here.
December 22, 2012
Dan Shure
Thanks for letting me know! Hopefully I’ll get around to a version 2 of this, since folks are liking the resource, I’d love to update it!
January 9, 2013
Lisa
I second the nomination for Whoosh Traffic. Easy to use, and friendly support at an affordable price.
January 17, 2013
Small B SEO
I know one more tool which is great for checking position and gathering lots of information about SEO statistics – Colibritool. It has GA integration, competition monitoring, detailed backlink checker, traffic statistics, conversion measurements and more. It works really good and we didn’t have problem with it. Also their support works quick which is very important thing.
Best regards
Anna
February 9, 2013
Paul OM
Very comprehensive list of rank checking software. Found combination of using seomoz and advance web ranking together as a good solution for rank reporting. nice post. Thanks for sharing
February 10, 2013
Ivan Muljevski
Check http://www.rankerizer.com/
Its free!
P.S. Scroll to the bottom for links after subsribing on the homepage.
January 23, 2014
Nick Samuel
I find rankerizer to be very hit and miss. The multiple URLs it returns per keyword can also be confusing when exporting simple look ups. SEObook is doing the job for me right now.
March 1, 2013
Steve Morris
I’m currently using rank tracker although I’m happy with the speed and for the most part the accuracy is good. The export on the Pro license is really limited. I want a solution that is reasonably priced and allows export of all historical data. any suggestions?
September 2, 2013
Lynn
Ranktracker’s cost has gone up since the one published here AND it also requires a subscription on top of that after you have run it for 6 months. Just learned that little fact today when it quit running my Google rankings.
So I am having to hunt again trying to find something that can be bought outright without the subscription nonsense.
April 19, 2013
Chris Sheehy
Perhaps this listing can further be segmented by software & online resources. The several software options listed are good for small businesses and DIY users but firms with several clients are – in my experience – best served with an online tool as the resource allocation can be a burden when running thousands of keywords – not to mention the blackouts from search engines software users can experience if searching large data-sets, unless you are using a proxy – which then adds to the cost of a software solution.
I use SerpScan from NY – it hits the big three and includes Local Ranking data. It’s very customizable and allows client access to online KW reporting 24/7 (my clients love that). The UI is a bit clunky, but the reporting is spot on.
April 19, 2013
Dan Shure
Thanks for mentioning SerpScan – and I totally agree – this list is in dire need of improvement, which I’ve been meaning to do.
April 26, 2013
Laura Book
I have been using SEOmoz Rank Checker happily until recently. It now does not seem to be able to provide ranking for google.com, just Bing and Yahoo.
April 26, 2013
Dan Shure
That’s very odd! I would suggest emailing them at help@seomoz.org – they’re very fast and responsive!
May 30, 2013
Alex
Thanks for a great list, Dan. I am a fan of Rank Tracker and it’s nice to see that I use a piece of software people know about. It’s always nice to check the alternatives though 🙂
August 8, 2013
Barbara Varovsky
Alex, I also use Rank Tracker from SEO PowerSuite and pretty happy with that.
What I love about the tool is that lets me check my clients’ sites ranks as if my computer is located in the city they come from.
Geo-targeted search is a pretty cool feature – very few rank checkers have it!
June 11, 2013
Frank
Hi Dan,
we have build a Rank Tracker with Google Docs, maybe that is something for your list: http://bit.ly/13towcw
Cheers
Frank.
June 12, 2013
Dan Shure
Thanks for sharing Frank. I’ve been meaning to update the list, and when I do, I’ll add you in 😉
June 20, 2013
Nixan Crasto
I lately used myseotool.com which provides a web-based ranking tool. Though I have not used it for a great number of keywords, it seemed pretty much accurate for about 150 keywords that we ran. You can in fact filter your local map results from the main organic SERPs. You can run up to 5000 keywords for unlimited websites with a higher plan. Good features are snapshots and archiving of rankings.
July 22, 2013
Sandhi Sudha
You can run up to 5000 keywords for unlimited websites with a higher plan. Good features are snapshots and archiving of rankings.
its speach and words and article so good i appriciate
August 8, 2013
Max Shone
For me the best tools are SEO PowerSuite by http://www.link-assistant.com/
September 21, 2013
Sathya Moorthi
I use http://moz.com to analyze my website and my customer’s websites. MOZ is the best one i think.
October 19, 2013
Rankinity
Take a look at http://rankinity.com. Rankinity is a new solution that allows to check positions of a website for certain keywords in popular search engines in real time.
October 22, 2013
Allen MacCannell
Hi Dan,
I just noticed this list. You can use the Way Back Machine to see that Web CEO was at the top of the rank checker list back in 2000 and this hasn’t really changed since then. Take for instance, the recent Top Ten Reviews update that put Web CEO Online at #3 behind Moz and Raven but ahead of Hubspot, etc: http://seo-tools-review.toptenreviews.com/ – Depending on your search term, we’re at the top of results such as for “online SEO tools”. Please consider updating this report when you have the chance.
At http://www.webceo.com you anyone can use the free version of Web CEO Online’s Rank Checker for 5 keywords and 2 projects and for as long as he or she wants.
What we have that others don’t have is an Extended Results setting that lets you integrate Universial Results (Google Places, Images, Shopping, Ads) with organic results.
You can also include your social media URLs as if they are part of your website for rank checking.
Of course you can go local and compare your project with 20 competitors.
There are more exclusive features so please keep us in mind when comparing rank checkers and other SEO tools.
November 5, 2013
Jan, Link-Assistant.com
Thanks for including Rank Tracker in the list, Dan! We greately appreciate it!
November 14, 2013
Cara
I love the ease of and export features of SEOBook’s Rank Checker — but I’ve read some have accuracy issues with it. Anyone experience this?
November 15, 2013
Dan Shure
It can definitely not be as accurate because it is just a simple plugin, and is not always clear how it takes local/images/ads into account when giving the ranking. But I use it all the time as a quick way to just get a rough idea – just keeping in mind to verify with a second source.
November 22, 2013
Krystian
Hey Dan, thanks for the list. I feel, like I’m bit late for the party 🙂 It would be cool, if you could add http://www.positionly.com, if you plan any updates to the list.
January 1, 2014
JoeyA
I’ll add ours into the mix. It’s still in Beta, so it’s free for now cheap later on, all we ask is for your feedback on how to make it better.
It has 3 components: Quality, Rankings, and Popularity. We’re adding Social soon.
Enjoy! Joey @ http://www.ezwebsitemonitoring.com
January 5, 2014
Diy
I for sure like the moz.com one when compared with others i did try a lot of them… next best one is probably rankranger.com
but i still need to wait couple of days so that i get inside more data…
January 9, 2014
MGA
Hi Dan,
Great list, thanks a lot. I’ve been in SEO lightly since 2008, and i had a chance to try many different tools. I haven’t been using desktop SEO tools for the last couple years. And i have a unpleasant experience with Traffic Davis recently. Although it is very user friendly, the tool drives me crazy. I run a list of 50 keywords for my current company, and it is simply checking 3 major search engines. And what happens is, now i get random captcha queries on Google when i use the search engine. I guess, they are somehow bombarding the search engines, and search engines feels the necessity to ask me if i am human or not. I finally uninstalled, and planning to switch to AdvancedWebRanking after reading good reviews. And I would love to make one time payment, and use it forever. But here i am asking, if anyone has experience with their desktop version. I don’t want to end up with filling captcha codes after every other 10 queries on Google. Feedbacks are highly appreciated…
January 9, 2014
Dan Shure
Hey There – yep I use their desktop version which is a one time payment, and it does use your IP to query Google. I don’t have too much trouble with capchas as you cen set the query speed pretty slow. However, you can pay a small monthly fee to painlessly run them through proxies.
January 10, 2014
Smith Twine
Hey Dan Shure i am using Majestic SEO & Raventools for my site anyways Nice Updated list. i will use the free ones in future 😀
January 23, 2014
Cindy Riquier
TinyRocketLab is a very bad tool. I have only issues with it. They provide me the right ranking but then, the rest is just crap.
When you update an excel spreadsheet, you dont get the result by column, ranking, URL and keywords are in same cell. So of course you can fix it by using text by column but obviously not the best. Also, I couldn’t add my colleagues on the tool, it took me 2 days to be able to add them and they blamed me for trying a few time. URL were wrong. Some keywords I never added appeared on my keywords list and some disappears. Such a bad tool
February 2, 2014
Per Allerup
I’ll have to add a comment on Cindy’s latest comment.
1: We provide a csv file for download rankings and keywords. I have tried to explain, and also showed to Cindy, how to extract data from a csv to an excel spreadsheet.
2: There was a bug in the function to add a user to a site. If you didn’t select which website the user should have access to, the sign in function for these new users failed. That was fixed, a couple of hours after you told us.
3: The urls were formatted incorrect for certain variables in urls, that was also fixed when you mentioned that to us.
4: We had a bug, when we implemented a script for importing keywords, which caused some keywords to appear where they shouldn’t have. That was also fixed.
I am sorry that you had such a bad experience – The tool is still in beta, and every bug we find, is fixed as soon as possible.
February 2, 2014
Dan Shure
Hey thanks for chiming in! I would definitely encourage anyone reading this would thinks they might like Tiny Rocket or any software company to try it out! Things can improve a lot, and it’s great to see you on top of it and especially responding over here!
February 3, 2014
Nina
Market Samurai will allow you to track up to 10 keywords included in the one-off license fee you mentioned. If you want to track more than 10 keywords you have to upgrade your rank tracker subscription e.g. $10 per month allows you to track 100 keywords, $20 allows you to track 200 keywords, etc
February 3, 2014
Dan Shure
Oh cool I didn’t know that, thanks I’ll update the list!
February 18, 2014
Dorian
Hi Dan
Thank you for this Rank checkers comprehensive list.
I am trying to find the perfect one but I am so disappointed every time…
I have tried authority labs and when the reports come, I manually check on Google and it’s not accurate at all… I can’t give those reports to my customers, if they double check.
Is it an average daily position they provide? Do you think I could be missing something?
Thx
February 18, 2014
Dan Shure
Hi Dorian
I would be careful with checking manually and expecting to get the same results. Your results can be personalized, and geo-specific. Meaning what you’re seeing is based upon your browsing history, possible social connections and location among other things. Try checking out Dr Pete’s are for ways to de-personalize your searches: http://moz.com/blog/face-off-4-ways-to-de-personalize-google
I have found Authority Labs to be extremely accurate in their data. If you want to cross check I would suggest using another tool even as a free trial rather than manually checking. And the thing with rankings is they are fluctuating all of the time so even with slight differences in tools, the goal is to watch it’s overall growth along with other keywords.
March 23, 2014
melchiorre schifano
Great list. Many thanks for your work.
March 25, 2014
Patrick McCoy
Hi Dan! Great list you have compiled and kept updated here. I found some new ones I never knew about.
I thought I’d add one to the list which I’ve been using for about 5 months now and love. The reports are crystal clear and brandable.
http://www.WebMeUp.com/plans.html (Ability to customize your own package based on budget and track ton of keywords). Check it out and consider adding to your list!
– Patrick
May 16, 2014
Benjamin Ng
Hey Dan,
Another recent one is ProRankTracker. Been trying it out, it’s free for the first 50 keywords which is a great start; can’t comment on the accuracy yet though reports are white label and interface is fairly intuitive.
Found it initially on the Warrior Forum.
– Benjamin Ng
June 4, 2014
Mat Sadler
I’m working on a tracker here http://www.serpsamurai.com/
At the time of writing it’s still in a closed BETA, but I’m looking for testers so go register..
This came about because I just couldn’t find one that suited my needs (either they were good, but expensive for large numbers of keywords, or cheap but really badly designed). I’m keeping costs to a minimum, allowing people to pay as they go (so no fixed monthly fee), have the ability to add notes on the charts, and also the ability to chart competitors sites side by side for easier comparison. There’s also reports, and most importantly I’ve put a lot of effort into having a decent UI. So it not only looks good but is intuitive to use. Let me know what you think..
June 18, 2014
Chris
Rant alert!
RankTracker (SEO Powersuite) is NOT a one-time fee. You pay a license fee, then you pay for “search algo updates”. I dropped over a grand on the enterprise suite several years back thinking it was a one-time fee and was unpleasantly surprised to find out that my software just stopped working one day and and now requires a monthly subscription.
Despite hundreds (thousands?) of complaints that their pricing is misleading, they continue to blow their horn that their pricing is perfectly transparent. You’d think that if enough people complained they would do something about it, but they just keep trucking on. Nowhere on their site do they say “your software will stop functioning if you don’t pay $x/month”.
When I commented on their blog that they update their pricing page to look like this (http://i.imgur.com/4Wsrz9T.jpg), they immediately removed my comment.
It’s a damn shame, because the software itself is great. They just left a bad taste in my mouth and I refuse to give more money to shady businesses.
June 19, 2014
Dan Shure
Hey Chris
Thanks for the info as I do try to keep the information as accurate as possible. I’ll definitely be updating this.
July 2, 2014
Wilco de Kreij
We believe that SEO Rank Monitor would be a good fit for your list as well.
We’ve been in business for 4 years, but we’ve recently re-build our platform from the ground up. Let me know if you got any questions, happy to help out!
URL: http://www.seorankmonitor.com
July 3, 2014
MarcusJohnson
You can add SEO Rank Monitor there I am using it for a while now and its pretty amazing!!!
July 4, 2014
Jason
Thanks from https://www.serpwoo.com/ for adding us Dan!
July 18, 2014
Pradeep Mandavya
Hi Dan,
I use Rankerizer to check the SERP reports for my company’s website as well as our client’s websites. Its a nice tool too. You can check that and add it here. Thanks for the useful list of tools.
August 3, 2014
Jen
Tiny Rocket Lab is no longer free – well, there is a free version for up to 10 keywords and plans past that start at $19 a month. Has anyone had any experience with this since it came out of beta?
August 12, 2014
Sameer
We’ve just launched our toolset called Mondovo.com and it includes a rank tracker as well. The difference with our toolset is that we also have an “IntelliReport” section that will compare ranking changes between any two dates and highlight all the sites that have either had a major jump or fall, thus allowing you to investigate further into what is working and what is not for those search terms.
August 15, 2014
Rikki
My advice http://rankinity.com
Website rank tracking in real time. Check website positions and analyze competitors in popular search enginesI checked.
I checked 900 keywords 2 times a month and paid $ 6
September 26, 2014
Tyson
I use a couple and really like them.
1) BrightLocal.com
They of course have a whole suite of local SEO tools including a rank tracker that tracks both local AMD organic results and they add in the ability to provide a white label URL to your clients. $64.99 per month.
2) MySeotool.com
In addition to providing local And organic results they also provide a small back link analysis, on page SEO grader, and automated and customizable monthly reporting. It’s a great tool amd priced from $99 per month.
October 15, 2014
Ryan
seoClarity is a enterprise tool
On-demand vs Campaign: Both. Rankings are tracked daily
Volume: Unlimited
Export: Yes
Price: Varies by account
Website: http://www.seoclarity.net/
November 11, 2014
Bizz
Very comprehensive list. I found a few that I’ll be looking into a bit more. Thanks!
December 8, 2014
Kim
Wincher
On-demand vs Campaign: Both?
Volume: Unlimited!
Export: Yes
Price: Free. PRO account starts at €6 / month.
Website: https://www.wincher.com
December 12, 2014
Cristina
Hello Dan,
This is a great collection of tools! Congrats!
We have just developed and published a new free local ranck checker tool on https://www.georanker.com/free-local-seo-tools/local-rank-checker/. If you have the pleasure to take a look, we will love to hear your feedback on it,
Kind regards!
December 14, 2014
Curtis
I also have a good tool out there: http://www.kwoxer.de/programme/website-ranking-checker/
Completely free, free of ads, portable, fast, supporting Google and Bing right now.
December 19, 2014
dj
Tried many of those and ProRankTracker.com is #1 these days.. Update your list
December 19, 2014
Dan Shure
Thanks for the tip! I’ll be sure to add it next time I do an update.
January 9, 2015
Vincent Tobiaz
Hi there again. Was just thinking, oh another old article Dan needs to update. Then I saw it was updated on the 5th! Amazing, Kudos. Love the extensive review. Really good stuff man.
January 9, 2015
Dan Shure
Thanks man! I try to keep this one as fresh as possible 🙂
January 13, 2015
Vincent Tobiaz
First of all can’t even imagine how good this page it doing in the SERPs 😉
Anyone have any experience with http://www.rankwatch.com/ ? I heard a lot of bad things about it on some black hat forums like Wildfire but that doesn’t mean too much to me.
I gave it a whirl, my agency is currently using WebCEO and gets killed on the scanning costs. This Rankwatch was just as, if not more accurate, had a few better features on the ranking side of things (no technical site scans like WebCEO) and could scan quite a lot for $99/month…
May keep WebCEO just for technical site analysis (which I could do with other cheaper tools like Woorank perhaps?) and looking at about.
Yikes! Information smog data overload. I like your pick too Dan but there’s no good 5000~ range keyword scan on it for a reasonable price.
Top tier looks like http://proranktracker.com/ seems to fit this niche really well, as well as AdvancedWebRanking.
Mid-tier: Rankinity, Brightlocal. Brightlocal isn’t known as a rank tracker as it is a citation submitter/reviewer, probably does tracking well though, can anyone verify this? All of my emails trials have ran out X_X
Lower level tools include
By Top/Mid/Bottom I’m just factoring partially in my head how known/popular/trustworthy the brand is and how polished the tool feels. Something like Rankwatch.com, while very functional, is not very polished.
January 16, 2015
Matt
Hi Dan,
Nice article. I’m not sure if you’ve ever looked at our solution. We off an all-in-one SEO campaign management platform and keyword rank tracking is just a part of it, but we’d meet your stated criteria. The software provides for: unlimited tracking, downloads to CSV/Excel/PDF/PPT, automatic scheduling, local rankings (40,000 towns and cities worldwide), API use, competitive analysis… I could go on! You can sign up for a free lifetime account, if you want to try it out.
Matt.
January 21, 2015
Vincent Tobiaz
Ok,
I just finished my research. Took me about two weeks of testing ins and outs of almost every tool listed here AND in the comments.
Crazily, the tool I was already using did very well – WebCEO – but how they charge for rank scans is ridiculous (for an agency anyway)! They charge not only per keyword/per competitor/per engine but also each page of depth per engine. Unbelievable.
I found that one of the tools gave plenty of weekly scans (some go by weekly, some monthly), a really slick interface, amazing features/options, reporting, and accuracy that was superior.
AWR / Advanced Web Ranking Cloud takes the cake, and its not even close guys. The only down side I’ve seen at all so far is it’s a little slow on its’ rank checking. The price point from $49 to $499 just can’t be beat.
Dan – about Authority labs – really can find those opportunity keywords easily through Google webmaster tools, which connects with most of these Seo tools listed. I can’t believe Raven is cheaping out like that doing a fake rank check through GWT. Really liked them at one point.
I’ll be moving my agency from WebCEO to AWR Cloud asap.
January 21, 2015
Vincent Tobiaz
PS their playground at http://www.advancedwebranking.com/google-algorithm-changes/ and the other playground thing is neat as well…
January 21, 2015
Vincent Tobiaz
Scheduled rank checks seem to be done by the time they need to be.
One time/on demand rank checks…
One time update
Fast
up to 24 hours
80 weekly keyword units
Slow
up to 7 days
40 weekly keyword units
Fast updates are limited to 5000 keyword units per day
*The weekly keyword units spent for on-demand updates
are only reimbursed at the beginning of the next billing month.
January 23, 2015
SEO Plus
Hey Dan – thanks for doing this –
Just had to bail on WebPosition after years – I’ve used it for ever but the customer service is so terrible, I’m in a major embarrassment with a client because I was in the middle of doing a ranking study and my.webposition.com just refuses to let me login – and despite copious email attempts and filling out the support form – I am getting nowhere fast.
At the very least, I need a backup.
Last time this happened I engaged in a full-court press to call them on the phone but that was a huge waste of time as well.
Ultimately, I need to transition away – I’m starting to use SheerSEO but it lacks a bunch of the features of WP.
WP would allow many more keywords for much less money, where I would pay per run of the report, not on a regular monthly fee, and it would allow multiple accounts for the same domain – and it would also show historical ranking for competitors built right in. Yes, there were some problems too but they were overlookable.
I’m a hold out – I used WP because I used WebPositionGold and whatever it was before that.
Does anyone know what ranker systems are working like this today? Or am I dreamin’?
What you doin’ these days – you still in the big W?
Thanks!
GD
February 18, 2015
Braydon
Amazing list of tools. I have successfully used raven tools in the past for all my seo management, but am slowly switching over to trello.
One tip I would offer is be careful how often you check your rankings. Keep it to once a week maximum as we have noticed a drop in rankings when checked daily.
Good luck!
February 18, 2015
Dan Shure
Hmmm using Authority Labs daily rank tracker for this site, and a large number of clients, I haven’t noticed that correlation. I don’t completely doubt what you’re saying 🙂 But I definitely encourage people to use a daily tracker since it gives you the most robust data.
May 21, 2015
Scott Allen
We ended up going with AWR Cloud, because out of all the ones we looked at, a) it was priced purely on the number of keywords you were tracking, not the number of sites — that’s critical if you’re doing ORM work or a lot of satellite/parasite SEO and tracking those ranks, and b) it seemed to have the best support of non-Google international search engines, like Yandex, Baidu, Daum, etc.
Do you know of any other ones that meet both those criteria? We’re pretty happy with AWR, but I’m always open to exploring alternatives.
July 10, 2015
Michael Gordon
Hey Dan,
Caphyon doesn’t advertise it but AWR Cloud also offers on demand rankings, which I use almost exclusively. I too like Authority Labs (used it a while back) but find that the flexibility and integration of AWR Cloud with AWR Desktop is outstanding, and the pricing is very reasonable (though secondary to me as well as it’s a huge time-saver).
Terrific list!
July 12, 2015
Weslee Trout
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign (It does have a suggested keyword feature)
Volume: 150 – 2,000
Export: Yes (Data can be downloaded as a report in PDF format)
Price: $39, $59 or $199 /month
Website: http://www.siteoscope.com
July 13, 2015
Amit
Definitely this is the best rank tracker. Lets you check bi hourly
http://goo.gl/joW2PT
Also this has a good reputation among seo’s in various forums
July 16, 2015
Can
http://serplab.co.uk
Free Google Ranking Check with daily Updates
– Unlimited Checks
– Charts
– CSV Export
– Bulk Keyword upload
Very Good
September 27, 2015
Polly
So.. I never realized how many of these tools there actually are. Tell me Dan Have you ever heard of The Jaaxy Keyword research platform I think it beats anything that you have listed here. Try it out and then tell us what you think.
October 12, 2015
Toby
I used Moz for a long period, however I think the pricing is a bit too heavy for a startup consultant like me. So I rather support other startups, and jumped on http://www.rankscanner.com/ not so long time ago, it gives me what I need for my clients, and it’s almost free of use and you can earn more keywords with referring.
I would like to have a more detailed overview in time, but right now it works for me, and the best thing is that I got a audit tool included as well. Not as comprehensive as Moz, but it works for my purpose as well.
October 29, 2015
Tomas
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Volume: 10-5,000
Export: Yes
Price: $9-$299 / month
Website: http://serpyou.com
November 17, 2015
Sheila
Updated
On-Demand vs Campaign: Campaign
Global, Local, Mobile Rank Tracking Options and
Volume: 25 – 2,000
Export: Yes (Data can be downloaded as a report in PDF & CSV format)
Price: $9.99, $39, $59 or $199 /month
Website: http://www.siteoscope.com
November 19, 2015
John Divramis
I am usign cuterank and i still trying to figure if it is reliable.
Even the strategyto stick on a single keywords seems poor SEO strategy to me.
How about the long tails?
November 24, 2015
Dan Shure
I agree 1000% with taking a long tail approach. I usually track higher volume words as a proxy, but keeping in mind there’s going to be way more action in the longtail. I also honestly find Google Search Console the best place for long tail tracking.
December 5, 2015
Shanks
Hi,
would like to mention about http://www.bunnyrank.com
they have free to paid packs and their prices are good as well, currently using their service.
also using http://tools.seobook.com extension to verify their rankings
December 21, 2015
Felix
Updated
Global, Local, Mobile Rank Tracking Options and
Volume: 100 – 2,500
Export: Yes (Data can be downloaded as a report in PDF & CSV format)
Price: $19.99, $39, $59 or $119 /month
Website: https://www.ranktracker.com
January 6, 2016
erdem
SEO Revolt
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: UNLIMITED
Export: Yes
Price: $27 one year license purchase
Website: http://seorevolt.com/
January 18, 2016
John
On-Demand vs Campaign: On demand
Volume: 100-7,500 or unlimited
Period: updates daily.
Price: $99-$499/mth – free trial available
Website: http://www.oviseo.com
Great tool for comparing your rankings to your competitors’.
January 29, 2016
Sandy
Hmmm… Should we really still track keyword rankings? Although what the client wants, the client should get, but still… seems to be a waste of time considering search results are now personalised. I wonder what other SEOs have to say about this. Obviously you can’t have one keyword rank for everyone and yet endless tools pop out promising to track your keyword rankings. Ranking in the eyes of whom? The machines?
February 19, 2016
Ravi
Hi
Thanks for amazing share.
I have concern reg ranking tools, as Google search became more personalized. Appreciate any clarification on that front.
Also if there’s a tool, that can display all keywords ( within top 100 rankings) for an entered website, rather than entering keywords to check on the latest ranking, it’s more useful. I think SEMRUSH is giving such info, appreciate if any one can let me know if there’s any other ranking tool, that’s doing the same.
February 28, 2016
Dan Shure
Hi Ravi
I’d definitely just using rankings as a rough proxy of movement, and a technical metric more than a marketing metric. Tracking de-personalized rankings over time can still show you how well you are trending up or down.
SEM Rush is definitely the best tool for entering a website and getting keywords back! I honestly don’t know of another that compares to recommend.
March 22, 2016
Dominique Jackson
Great list Dan! Good to see that you went with Authority Labs! I’ve heard nothing but good things about it. One tool I’ve been using recently is Wincher. It’s cheap and gets the job done. I even wrote a review of it recently in case anyone is interested. Feel free to check it out: http://dominiquej.com/wincher-rank-tracker-review/
April 12, 2016
Scott Allen
Great list, Dan, and thanks for updating it for 2016. We’re currently using AWR Cloud and moderately happy with it. We’ve had to build some of our own tools on top of their API. But I’m always on the lookout for alternatives.
The challenge that we have is that we do mostly ORM work, so I need a very small number of keywords, but I need to be able to track a large number of domains for each keyword. I’ve tried Microsite Masters, but it seems you have to input by hand each URL you want to track. A couple of others (including AWR) let you mark competitors, but that doesn’t really work for me either, because I need to be able to distinguish competitors (negative sites) from positive, or satellite, sites.
Do you know of any rank trackers that handle this better? What I want is something that will show me all, say, 100 results for the keyword, and let me mark them as competitor or satellite/positive/related/whatever.
April 12, 2016
Dan Shure
Authority Labs seems to do this pretty well – have you tried the competitor tracking functionality there? https://authoritylabs.com/support/compare-rankings-competitors/
April 26, 2016
Scott Allen
Yeah, not really a fan of Authority Labs for what I do. Since I do parasite SEO, I’m wanting to track 50+ domains, but their $99 plan only allows 100 domains, even though I may only be doing a few keywords. The pricing plan is all wrong.
And then, I can’t figure out how to just see all the ranking results for a keyword. So if there’s a new news story, or negative site that comes up, I can’t see that in AL — I have to go manually look at the SERPs and then manually add each new site/URL to AL.
SERPWoo is the closest I’ve found, but still not crazy about it. Sure wish some rank tracking company would come to talk to me about what I actually need and incorporate it, because everyone doing ORM work seems to deal with the same issues.
August 22, 2016
Derek Perkins
Scott – Not to be overly self-promotional, but at Nozzle (https://nozzle.io), we’ve been tracking data like that in a private beta over the last year and just launched at SMX in June. You can track as many domains as you want and we only charge you once per keyword. I’d love to set you up on a free trial and get your feedback!
May 7, 2016
Amine Guerfi
QuickRankTracker Software
On-Demand vs Campaign: On-Demand
Volume: Unlimited
– Add/Import Unlimited URLs & Keywords
– Search in up to 1000 Google Search Results!
– More than 200 Tlds included and +145 Languages Included.
– Export Results (CSV)
Price: $37 – One Time Payment
Website: http://quickranktracker.com/
Via: Daguerfi Software
June 15, 2016
John Divramis
Cuterank site and software is not working, any ideas?
June 27, 2016
Marty Shue
Hi John we use Cuterank as well and are experiencing the same. It was working great until about 2 weeks ago. Now all we get is “Update Failed” on all campaigns for Google USA. That’s how I ended up here — looking for a new rank tracker software. One that actually works!
September 16, 2016
Stefan Tobaben
You can scratch Market Samurai off that list. The Rank Tracker feature is history.
October 2, 2016
Vahid Afshari
I wish see cuterank in this great post. I use cuterank for more than 4 years and its the best tools
January 18, 2017
Daren
Dan — Great to see the updated list, thanks for keeping this going. Do you still see the Firefox rank checker a viable option? I gave up on it because it would always time out (despite changing the query frequency) and I was never quite sure where it timed out (did this keyword return a zero because the site isn’t ranking, or it timed out???), thus I’d have to repeat the work. As a result we’ve switched to Authority Labs on your recommendation and have loved it.
January 18, 2017
Dan Shure
Hey Daren – Good to hear from you! I’ve been using the Firefox Plugin less and less. Just for quick checks really. Maybe if I need to run 10-50 keywords. Other than that, yes, I love Authority Labs. It might take 30-90 minutes to get the first rankings, but the wait is fine with me. If you’re still providing SEO to clients, I’ve also found having the client setup and pay for their own account works as well.
January 19, 2017
Daren
Thanks Dan. The one other kudos I’d give Authority Labs is that their support is very responsive. Every now and then things get hung up in their queue longer than they should, and whenever that happens I contact Support and they have it fixed quickly.
January 19, 2017
Dan Shure
Good to know! Yes, I’ve had the same luck. Sometimes the owner directly gets right back to me. I coincidentally just made a tutorial on how to use the ‘Now Provided’ report, if it’s useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuMQzJTGc4U
February 14, 2017
Jasper
Hey Dan,
I’m also giving thanks for keeping this article up to date. Unfortunately I found it a bit late… I started with Agency Analytics a few weeks ago but was having issues with their SERP accuracy. I also found their interface was just unintuitive. So I created a few campaigns with RankTrackr.com and realised they are leagues ahead with UI design, SERP accuracy and refresh rate.
Anyway, great article. As a business owner tracking multiple locations, RankTrackr does a good job for an affordable price.
February 14, 2017
Dan Shure
Jasper
Awesome thanks for the input on RankTrackr! Too bad to hear Agency Analytics feel short but glad you found a better solution!
February 21, 2017
Ron Johnson
Hey Dan,
Thanks for sharing all this info. It is tough to find a good seo tool that works well. keep up the good work!!
March 10, 2017
Nakul
Great list Dan. It’s even better because you are keeping it up-to date. Thanks.
March 10, 2017
Dan Shure
You’re welcome – and thank you!
April 3, 2017
Jack Venturi
I have been using Authority Labs for the last few years and they do an excellent job. When I start tracking a new keyword I always create a “Tag” and make notes on when the keyword was added and also what the current ranking is so I can quickly compare it a few days or weeks later. Their tech support is always great too.
Thanks for the great post Dan!
June 1, 2017
Daniel Law
Hi Dan, great work with the article mate. Really good to see it’s still being updated frequently with modern rank trackers.
I recently stumbled upon Accuranker. It looks to be useful for SEOs who are looking for affordable pricing and VERY flexible rank tracking functionality.: https://www.accuranker.com/blog/rank-features/
On-Demand vs Campaign: Both
Volume: 600~250k
Price: $45.00~$6,000.00
Hope someone out there will find it useful!
March 7, 2018
Ailsa Cartledge
Hi Dan,
Great article and good to see the list gets updated.
I came across Cocolyze. I tried the Rank Tracking tool and pretty impressed with it. It’s also free to use the whole platform and have access to all data. https://cocolyze.com
Hope someone finds it as useful as I do!
February 27, 2019
Robert Portillo
Great list! I have never see one compiled so well. About Moz – I know they are the biggest fish(kin) in the pond, but we have experienced terrible rank-tracking data from them. Sometimes their data is off by a factor of over 100x! Unacceptable. We had been reporting rankings that were vastly lower than they actually were, based on our monthly campaigns. After using them for a long time, we had no choice but to cancel their services.
Now we know to use multiple sources for client rankings reports.