There are many tools on the Net today, both free and paid, that will allow
you to look at your ranking on various search engines. There are even a few
paid services that will enable you to compare your page rankings to those of a
competitor. But I have not yet seen a tool that will do this quickly and
accurately across over 300 international search engines and directories.
RankMeter
(formerly Advanced Site Position) does one thing very, very well: it gives you
a snapshot of where you rank on 334 search engines and directories by using
keywords, and you can search simultaneously across all search engines
using multiple keywords and phrases, and you can compare the results to
your competitors' web pages.
RankMeter
also saves and tracks your results, so you can see how your ranking has
changed since the prior analysis. This can be very helpful to see how changes
in competitors' bids and your advertising campaigns have either helped or
hindered your ranking.
You can export the analysis results to Excel (HTML, CSV) to create a
sharp-looking report. I can see this tool being helpful not only to individual
webmasters, but also to those folks who work as search engine submission
agents for other web sites. Now you can quickly demonstrate the success of
your efforts for your clients. Simply load RankMeter
up with the URLs and appropriate keywords, click RUN, and let the it fly.
Within a few minutes time, you'll have your report.
It should be noted that while RankMeter
is only $69.00 (US), there is an annual subscription fee after the first year
of $20.00 (US). Why? To run these types of complex searches and analyses
requires the scanning of 1000's of web pages. Normally this would take hours
upon hours and lots of processing space, but thanks to preliminary processing
of web pages on the developer's own web server, your results run up to 25
times faster. So when you purchase RankMeter,
you are paying for the use of their server, the updates to the search engine
listings and the software. All around, we think this is a good deal.
Rank Meter
