Comments on: Software for SEO: Tools, Why & How to Track Rankings in a Personalized Search World

By: Chromatic Tuner, Mel

Chromatic Tuner, Mel — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:18:45 +0000

With the recent Google Panda update, I don’t really want to look at the ranking anymore.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:30:40 +0000

Good updates on the useful seo tools. Google webmaster tools allow various functionality regarding seo. Also the raven seo tool is growing to be popular with its varied set of tools that help both tracking and reporting. Nice sharing.

By: Victoria Blount

Victoria Blount — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:05:03 +0000

Using Google Webmasters tools to personalize your search and utalise the information available to you and your customer is vital, i do agree that you can have information and statistic overload if your not careful.

By: bienvenido

bienvenido — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:30:24 +0000

This is very useful. Thanks for the hints… I am wondering how to keep track of my page ranking…

By: Frank Schmid

Frank Schmid — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:14:30 +0000

Wonderful stuff! Ive been depending on a monitoring site to check the ranks of my sites. I just wonder how to do it alone. Thanks for the tips!

By: Bill Bean

Bill Bean — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:55:11 +0000

I think many people are missing out on the helpfulness of Google Webmaster tools. Lots of helpful free stuff out there. And your point about personalized search is well made. It does have an impact but that impact has been overblown a bit.

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:53:51 +0000

Steve: Yeah, Raven is must know by now.

Chris: Yes, in case you have the resources and expertise like those a SEO company has that’s certainly the best solution.

Also you are right that you should beware of information overflow.

Choose the best tool for you and stick with it. It’s important though to have a 2nd tool as a backup in case the main one fails.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:44:54 +0000

I work at an SEO firm and I think you just have to be consistent. If you work with too many different tools you get information overload. We use a web based rank tracking system. We find this to me most effective because then you don’t spend half your day banned from google because you did too many searches. Plus the tool is using the same method to check your ranking each time and it does it unpersonalized.(http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all) – still not perfect but it’s a safer bet.

By: Steve @ eco-seo

Steve @ eco-seo — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:14:54 +0000

I’d not even heard of Raven, I’ve been using various tools for a few years now *trots off to go have a look*

By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:05:18 +0000

Thanks Tianxin, I completely forgot about Free Monitor for Google. I’ve used it back then in 2005 but Google has blocked it around 2006 and then I switched.
Does ist still work or rather does it work again?