Keyword Position Tracking Tools

Is your site ranking for your keywords?

Use the following tools to track the postion of your keywords and web pages. They all generally work the same. Enter the URL of a web page. Associate a keyword phrase with that web page. The tool will then track the position of that web page within the search engines for that given keyword phrase. Most of these require a manual intervention to update the rankings. One offers an automated email update. The first four are free, the second is a commercial product. All require a Google API key.

• Digital Point Keyword Tracker – nifty little tool. Requires manual update or a CRON job. I have had problems with it updating properly. It has been inconsistent in my experience. I’m in the process of creating a new account with new Google API key to see if I can get consistency.
• Splutweb Keyword Tracker Tool- It has worked pretty well. Limited to tracking only 20 keyword/page pairs. Can be setup to auto update and send out an email. This latter feature is nice. Just wish I could setup more keyword/page pairs.
• 2KRT Keyword Ranking Tool – Excel spreadsheet based/VBA application. I have not tried this one out. Pulling the information directly into Excel could be helpful.
• GoogleRankings Position Tracker – In the process of testing this one out.
• Advanced Web Ranking – Commercial product. Price is $60. I have only done the 30 day demo. Slick graphs. Very helpful. I had no problem with it updating the rankings. Has advantage of local storing your keyword information.