SEO Tools – Rank Checker Walkthrough

Rank Checker - Great SEO Tool

A great SEO Tool I bumped into while learning about SEO is Rank Checker.
If you ever wanted to know what your rank is in the Google index, but were just to lazy to sift through the
many many pages of results (admit it you've done this...how many pages did you get through before giving up ? 10? 15?...ive done this too lol)..you really should check it out.

Rank checker is available from SEOBook as a free Firefox extension.
It won't work in IE, but you should have firefox anyways!

You can download Rank Checker by clicking: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/

After you install, you will see the Rank Checker icon on the bottom right corner of your browser.

Clicking on this will open the main Rank Checker Interface.

Interface

This is the starting interface, basically there is a box for your domain and then a keyword box. If we type www.msn.com as the domain name, and messenger as the keyword and click Add. We see it in the window below, you can repeat this step for multiple keywords, making a list
of keywords to search for that domain. When we hit start, Rank checker will go through Google Index, Yahoo Index, and Live Index to find the position of your domain for each particular keyword.

Results(Click to enlarge)

This is the interface after a search. It may take some time, but eventually you will see what your position is for each specified keyword. Here we see that www.msn.com is rated 9th for the keyword "messenger" (Msn Messenger) if you havent figured that out already.

Rank Checker Presets
If this search is going to be used often, you can save it as a preset. Click the Save button, and type a name for this preset. The next time you load, you can load the preset using the OPEN button on the interface. Please save a preset, we'll need it later on!

Rank Checker Export Ability
One nice feature of the rank checker extension is its ability to export your results to a csv file (comma seperated value). This file can be opened in a number of applications including wordpad and excel. This allows you to track your results. You can save a copy of the csv file, and next time you run your check, you can compare the two to see how effective your SEO techniques have been.

Rank Checker Extra Features
By clicking Tools>Rank Checker in your Firefox Menu bar, you have access to some neat features which aren't that visible on the interface.
Hell, im not even sure they exist on it. Tools>Rank Checker>Options, allows you to customize rank checker for your locale (ie Google.ca instead of Google.com). It also allows you to put a delay on the time between requests. This is to keep your IP from being banned if you're querying a LARGE number of keywords - dont worry about this for a low number of keywords.

SCHEDULING!...YES...SCHEDULING.

This ones pretty exciting. By clicking Tools>Rank Checker>Scheduling, you can schedule rank checker to run at a certain time, and certain frequency. On the scheduling interface, choose a time and click the Save button. At the drop down in the bottom, pick the preset we saved earlier, choose your frequency, then click Add. This will run your preset on a schedule. If you would like to view data gathered by these scheduled runs, click Tools>Presets. Select your preset and click Export History to CSV. This will allow you to see all the data gathered by this tool.

Anyways, headin to bed, so thats it for today, but enjoy.
This tool will DEFINITELY help you improve your SEO rankings. Often times with SEO I felt that I had no clue if it was working or not.
This tool gives you a definite way to measure whether or not the SEO techniques you're applying are working effectively or not.

Feel free to leave comments or contact me with suggestions, questions, or requests.

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