I'm sure you know why this thread is here.
"Why haven't I seen my rankings update?"
"Why does it tell me I'm on page 2 when I'm not even in the top 100?"
I could go on and on about typical problems someone can face when it comes to having a rank tracker. And of course as many people have told me, don't complain about a problem unless you have a solution.
Therefore, cardine and I bring you Microsite Masters - a daily rank tracker with a focus on accuracy and stability.
We have implemented features that we believe should help the everyday SEO out with not only analyzing what's going on, but help quantify how things come together to assist in devising a plan of attack in the future. This wasn't built to just show you your data and think to yourself "ohh this is nice, I'm +5". Microsite Masters was also built to allow you to comment on actions taken by you (and/or your team) to see the effect of certain actions on your rankings.
What does this mean? This means you can set a note on 12/16/11 and see how your rankings are in 2 weeks. That's not bad, right? But then you can say "Ordered Social Bookmarks, Quantity: 1000, Price 32.00" or "John - Blog Commenting, 8 Hours". Instead of guessing or keeping reminders, we save you hours of "monitoring" or "watching". It'll allow you to get an idea of what you're doing, and how it's working. Then you can check the results within 7, 14, and 31 days to see the long(er) effects of whatever it is that you did. If you were to do this on a few different domains and checked after 14 days of doing X, Y and Z you can start to see what really works overall and what doesn't.
That's just the first feature that we call "ROI Tracking". Not bad, huh?
Moving onto our next one - a personal favorite of mine. You can export a dynamic report of your SERPs if you want to show your friends. I'm not talking about a screen shot or something static, but an actual public URL that you can show off to your friends - that actually updates daily (along with everything else) within the timeframes that you set. Here's a few examples of how they can be used, and what they look like (thanks Berto & LukeP!):
http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo...fore-targets-simply-unique-2.html#post1549709
http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo...-iv-dirrty-links-dirrty-boys.html#post1538517 (also you can see the use of a Note on this one)
For the lazy:
Other than that, we do have one specific feature that was specifically designed to assist you in seeing how you're not only doing overall, but to see what data has been found that should be looked at - and that's called the SEO Scoreboard.
The scoreboard is a daily-updating list of your 50 highest SERP gains, and 50 biggest SERP drops. Displayed side by side. By keyword. And clickable to view the history. See what I'm getting at?
This is how you can easily identify if an algorithm change has gone into play, there's a new big player in your niche blanketing the front page, or who knows what else. This is like having a personal VA that prioritizes everything that you look at on a daily basis as a "snapshot" of how everything going - except this one doesn't cost $50/week. Now consider the fact that we also email this scoreboard to your email address every single day like clockwork so you don't even have to think about it. This is how we do rank change notifications, baby.
Of course we have all of the other standard features as well - PDF reports (whitelabeling enabled for agencies!), CSV Exports (view your site's movement on the day, so you can sort it how you want it), Scheduled Reports (Auto-sending you PDF reports of any site in your account, with or without certain keywords, every week or every month). We're currently live in 7 countries - United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, France and Germany. Have a country you want us to add? Let us know.
But most of all, and above all else, we give you the most important feature of all. Stable, reliable, and as-accurate-as-I've-ever-seen daily SERP tracking. That's seriously our main focus. We monitor this bad boy every single day, and haven't missed a day of data yet - and we've been in beta for about 6 months. Worried we'll not be able to handle all of the tracking and would lose out on data? We've made every precaution when creating this to make the entire spider framework 100% scalable. We're currently benchmarked up to about 65,000 keywords/day at the moment from our internal testing (and I'm being conservative) and we'll make sure to increase the capacity well before we hit that threshold to compensate.
And of course, the pricing:
As always if anyone has any questions feel free to drop me a PM, or submit a ticket on the site and we'll take care of you.
When in doubt, remember we have a free account! No financial information required to signup for it, so there's no harm in trying it out.
"Why haven't I seen my rankings update?"
"Why does it tell me I'm on page 2 when I'm not even in the top 100?"
I could go on and on about typical problems someone can face when it comes to having a rank tracker. And of course as many people have told me, don't complain about a problem unless you have a solution.
Therefore, cardine and I bring you Microsite Masters - a daily rank tracker with a focus on accuracy and stability.
We have implemented features that we believe should help the everyday SEO out with not only analyzing what's going on, but help quantify how things come together to assist in devising a plan of attack in the future. This wasn't built to just show you your data and think to yourself "ohh this is nice, I'm +5". Microsite Masters was also built to allow you to comment on actions taken by you (and/or your team) to see the effect of certain actions on your rankings.
What does this mean? This means you can set a note on 12/16/11 and see how your rankings are in 2 weeks. That's not bad, right? But then you can say "Ordered Social Bookmarks, Quantity: 1000, Price 32.00" or "John - Blog Commenting, 8 Hours". Instead of guessing or keeping reminders, we save you hours of "monitoring" or "watching". It'll allow you to get an idea of what you're doing, and how it's working. Then you can check the results within 7, 14, and 31 days to see the long(er) effects of whatever it is that you did. If you were to do this on a few different domains and checked after 14 days of doing X, Y and Z you can start to see what really works overall and what doesn't.
That's just the first feature that we call "ROI Tracking". Not bad, huh?
Moving onto our next one - a personal favorite of mine. You can export a dynamic report of your SERPs if you want to show your friends. I'm not talking about a screen shot or something static, but an actual public URL that you can show off to your friends - that actually updates daily (along with everything else) within the timeframes that you set. Here's a few examples of how they can be used, and what they look like (thanks Berto & LukeP!):
http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo...fore-targets-simply-unique-2.html#post1549709
http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo...-iv-dirrty-links-dirrty-boys.html#post1538517 (also you can see the use of a Note on this one)
For the lazy:
Other than that, we do have one specific feature that was specifically designed to assist you in seeing how you're not only doing overall, but to see what data has been found that should be looked at - and that's called the SEO Scoreboard.
The scoreboard is a daily-updating list of your 50 highest SERP gains, and 50 biggest SERP drops. Displayed side by side. By keyword. And clickable to view the history. See what I'm getting at?
This is how you can easily identify if an algorithm change has gone into play, there's a new big player in your niche blanketing the front page, or who knows what else. This is like having a personal VA that prioritizes everything that you look at on a daily basis as a "snapshot" of how everything going - except this one doesn't cost $50/week. Now consider the fact that we also email this scoreboard to your email address every single day like clockwork so you don't even have to think about it. This is how we do rank change notifications, baby.
Of course we have all of the other standard features as well - PDF reports (whitelabeling enabled for agencies!), CSV Exports (view your site's movement on the day, so you can sort it how you want it), Scheduled Reports (Auto-sending you PDF reports of any site in your account, with or without certain keywords, every week or every month). We're currently live in 7 countries - United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, France and Germany. Have a country you want us to add? Let us know.
But most of all, and above all else, we give you the most important feature of all. Stable, reliable, and as-accurate-as-I've-ever-seen daily SERP tracking. That's seriously our main focus. We monitor this bad boy every single day, and haven't missed a day of data yet - and we've been in beta for about 6 months. Worried we'll not be able to handle all of the tracking and would lose out on data? We've made every precaution when creating this to make the entire spider framework 100% scalable. We're currently benchmarked up to about 65,000 keywords/day at the moment from our internal testing (and I'm being conservative) and we'll make sure to increase the capacity well before we hit that threshold to compensate.
And of course, the pricing:
As always if anyone has any questions feel free to drop me a PM, or submit a ticket on the site and we'll take care of you.
When in doubt, remember we have a free account! No financial information required to signup for it, so there's no harm in trying it out.
(accurate) rankings tracker that has white label reports as this is the only thing that's been tying me to SEScout.
