I've said it before, but I will reiterate: Pagerank is nothing compared to your SERP ranking. What's the point of having high Pagerank if your site doesn't rank well for any keywords.
One of the issues I ran into when starting out to learn SEO was finding where I ranked for specific tools. I tried IBP, but it was slow and I'd heard some things about it that I won't repeat here that warned me away from it. I also tried some online tools that were either too clunky to be useful, or required my to jump through a lot of hoops to use.
The tool I ended up using is the at www.rankingcheck.com. It allows me to search for top 100 SERPs on all three major search engines. (some webmasters complain that they want a tool to show top 1000 SERPs, but any SERP under 30 is practically useless, so the top 100 is fine with me). Ranking Check also has a free tool to track 10 keywords on your sites, and you can pay for additional keyword tracking. The tool also emails me when my ranking has changed. The only downside I found to the tool was the fact that I'm only emailed once per week on ranking changes. A daily email would be nice.
Overall, I rate the tool an 8 out of 10, and would give it an even higher score if the new ranking emails were sent out on a more frequent basis.
(* note - I wasn't paid, coerced, or otherwise compensated in any way for this post. I don't know who created rankingcheck.com, but I love the tool)
Thursday, August 30, 2007
A fantastic SERP tool for webmasters
Labels:ranking,ranking tool,rankings,search engine ranking tool,SERP,SERP tool
Posted byThe Google Watchdogat3:57 PM
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do u think PR is a major factor to be considered these days unless you are in to selling High PR domains.. I believe people are becoming more aware of the PR funda recently and are not much worried abt it.. what say?
Coorg
The link to "Search Engine Ranking tool" seems to be broken, it comes up as "http://www.blogger.com/www.rankingcheck.com"
I guess you missed the http:// at the beginning?
Thanks,
Gary
Glowdir.com
I just think the PR is so overrated people lose sight of the important.
LinkGimp.com
Nice. It's always great to see another tool.
Nice blog, my first time here, saw your post at Digital Point. As I am also in the SE industry I will be following your blog.
PR is NOT over rated.
Yeah, the link is broken, but overall a very nice suggestion. Thx a lot !
Sorry about the link - it's fixed now.
PR is definitely not over-rated, but so many webmasters focus on PR instead of SERPs. Until Google completely removes the ability for for webmasters to see Pagerank we will use it as a benchmarking tool in our SEO activities.
Thanks for the review. I could see this being a useful tool. I'm not sure I'd spring for the paid service or not though.
Thanx for sharing this tool really seems interesting
Great tool! Very useful and saves a ton of time!
Professional Search Engine Optimization
I just wish there was a tool to check every serp for a given page. In other words, you wouldn't have to provide the kw. The tool would discover them on its own.
I would like to write a post about how impressed I am with the speed of Google index update now-a-days.
What do you think?
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