| SEO Ranking Software |
| Written by George Pearson Shearsmith | |
| Thursday, 20 August 2009 05:27 | |
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Finding out where you rank in the search engine results for your chosen keywords is extremely important. However it can be more difficult than you might imagine, especially if you have more than one website. If you only have one website then you may able to track your ranking with manual searches, but if you have more than one site, it can become difficult, and you might use one of the rank checking sites available on the web.
Finding out where you rank in the search engine results for your chosen keywords is extremely important. However it can be more difficult than you might imagine, especially if you have more than one website. If you only have one website then you may able to track your ranking with manual searches, but if you have more than one site, it can become difficult, and you might use one of the rank checking sites available on the web. The problem with most of these is that they are not very accurate. They either give you results from the UK i.e. Google.com results rather than google.co.uk, or they use a different hub to draw their results from so you have no proper indication of your precise rankings at any given point. The problem is worsened by Googles limits on the amount of searches that you can make in an hour. The limit is currently 200 in an hour. This is the same as searching four keywords and looking through the rankings up to rank 500. This will become a big problem if you have several websites with several keywords each. The answer to these problems would be a piece of software that can automatically search through the results on your desired keywords for your specified site, while staying within Googles search limits. The ideal software will also give you information on you competitors sites, traffic reports for individual keywords, number of backlinks etc. Most ranking software will not offer you all of that information, let alone the option to white label it in order to sell it on as your own product. Finding good reliable software is difficult but not impossible. If you are an SEO company, you will be judged by your results, and your reports form an important part of that process. Your clients need to be able to see usable data that will reassure them that you are working hard on their behalf. Your Clients will not understand your business as well as you do, so information needs to be provided that will help them to see improvement. Good software should allow this, so you can show your clients their ranking improvements month on month as well as the growth in link volumes which is driving the improvements for their site. Your clients will probably not understand the finite workings of SEO, but by providing some KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) you will enable your relationship with them to grow.
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