Tracking Search Engine Rank Progress

[jackson992]

Any opinions on the best way to track whether our changes have made an improvement for us larger sites? With so many pages I have no idea whether any changes I do has made any effect and it's a real chore to go through thousands of pages with the Google site:domainame command.

[incrediblehelp]

jackson are you monitoring and evaluating rankings and sales?

[jackson992]

I'm currently not as I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. I do look at my awstats and latest visitors.

[kgun]

Track Your Rank Using the Google API

Note:
full source code is available for download

[jackson992]

Thisis just to track a spefic keyword isn't it? I want to know the top keywords I rank for.

[kgun]

I do not know, I have not read the article. I only noted that the article is centrally placed at the front page of Sitepoint and has got a top reader rating: 10. That is about all I know.

[dburdon]

Jackson,

digitalpoint has a tool that will allow you to track the rankings of several hundred keywords. You'll need a Google API key though.

[jackson992]

thx: I'll see if I can find it. If so, maybe it would be a good thing to make sticky?

[ctabuk]

www.statcounter.com I really recommend the pay for version

[bobitza]

Another tool you can use to monitor ranking changes in Google, MSN and Yahoo is:

googlerankings.com

... for Google, you need the Google API key.

[kgun]

All of the above tools are well known. Thought you would make your own tool. Modify the code? I think Brian.Mark has made advanced reporting tools for his site(s).

Look in the analytics forum?

[dburdon]

The Digital Point tool is great for measuring rankings over time.

[Dorian]

There are ranking tools that you can easily find on the internet. Some of these tools flood the search engines with too many queries in a short time, so you'll have to find one that simulates a broswer.

Try searching keywords like, "website management tools"

That should be a good start!

Dorian

[kgun]

Perhaps the folloeing KW's will help you.

WSDL Web Services Definition Language. Using that technology you can use the Google API. There are a lot of pages with webservices, eg. XMethods.

I can reccomend the book (especially chapter 17):

Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET by Zak Ruvalcaba.

In a nutshell WSDL is a plattform independant technology based on distributed objects where you can use your language of choice, eg C# or VB.NET.