5 tools to keep track of your keywords ranking position

Creating your website so that it is found within search engines requires a great deal of SEO. Apart from having the meta data and backlink information, the content has to be written with keywords which will help search engines find your pages. Creating a keyword rich article or web content is not as hard as some would make it, the difficulty is in making content that has keywords with also have a great rating position. For example: If you were to use baseball in your article, the odds are that you would never beat out the MLBs website. Understanding how to formulate your words is the first step in getting your rating position up in the keyword ratings, but how can you tell if your keywords are doing anything? Sure, you could do a bit of guesswork and hope for the best, or you could use an online keyword tracking software program to give you a more detailed report. Here are five programs to get you started.

Bing Keyword

The best way to see how your page ranks on Bing is to ask bing. If you have an account then simply go to www.bing.com/toolbox/keywords to start analyzing the keywords of your site. You will have to import an identifier to your site so that the data can be verified. This can be done from the xlm file, adding code to your meta tag, or by you DNS.

Once you have established your site on Bing’s Keyword Research tool you will notice that the report shows all of your keywords and how each one has led a member to your page. If you do not have any keywords show up than you will want to rewrite some of your content to ensure that you have keywords which the search engines can find.

Google Rank Checker

Search Engine Genie has come out with a great little feature to help you find your position in google. Like all keyword ranking software, you will have to add a code for the checker on your page. The online page is easy to use. Simply type in your URL, enter a keyword or phrase that you want to check the ratings for, Select the regional domain, and prove that you are not a robot by answering a simple math problem. Once done, the engine will display your data.

The benefit of using the Google rank checker is that you can identify specific words or phrases which google search engine users have found in relationship to your site. The downside of this, however, is that it is limited to the Google search engine. If you want to have a cross platform search you will need to have a better software checker to do such.

Rank Checker by SEO Centro

If you do not want to be bothered with having to put in a ton of scripts onto your site and just want to know where your rank is for a particular word, try the Rank Checker by www.seocentro.com . The site is very intuitive. Simply put in your keyword, your domain, and a competitor’s domain and submit. Once you have done this you will get the results for google, Bing, and yahoo for both you and your competitor.

SERPs

Serps offers a 100% web based platform to check your SEO. However, it is a bit on the pricey side. You can get a free 30 day trial, but after that you will spend between 500 and 2000 a month. Why is this? One reason is because top corporations use this software (such as NBC and USA today). Anytime you get major players involved in software the price goes way up. Another reason is because the SEO software offers everything you would ever need to help you in your SEO and reporting. Check them out at https://serps.com/users/signup/

You can receive daily reports of data uploaded. SERP also works alongside Google Analytics so you can combine data and ranking to see which words are working best. The site also performs SEO experiment tests to ensure that your keywords are working properly.

SEO Scores for the Android

If you just do not have the time to sit behind a computer and check your SEO, which a lot of us do not have, than you can download the SEO Scores app. The app is actually about 32 SEO tools in one application so it may take a bit of time to get all the features down. Once you do, it is a very powerful tool for your Keyword checking. Simply put in the URL and then hit the submit button. You can have the app email you the report if you like or you can view the results on your device.

Checking to see where you rank in keywords is an essential part of developing a successful website, according to online marketing agency SEO ROI. If a search engine cannot find your site than how can you expect users to find it? Optimize your site so that your keywords appear in the upper rankings and you are sure to see better results in terms of traffic to your site.

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