A common question we get asked by people is how do we go about checking rankings. Unfortunately the answer is by painstakingly going through it by hand – when we come back with this reply people usually ask if there is any software they could use. Until now our answer was no, but now that has changed since we discovered Advanced Web Ranking, this is the only website ranking software we would recommend.

I downloaded my 30 day trial version of Advanced Web Ranking a couple of weeks ago now and I must say, I am very impressed.

I started off by using our set of keywords to see what kind of data we could get hold of through Advanced Web Ranking. Within minutes we had a rank check for all the keywords in Google.co.uk – with the option of choosing other search engines such as Google.com, MSN, Yahoo and many more. Not only this but you can also check in search engines all over the World. So if you want to check Google.co.uk, Google.fr, Google.com.au – you can!

One of the major advantages is that it can track your keyword rankings over a period of time so you can see what effect your SEO strategy has had over time.

Reporting

You can also schedule updates and automate it so it sends out reports straight to the client in many different formats (PDF, HTML, CSV) – it also allows you to customize these reports with your own corporate identity.

Not only this but you can many different types of reports, for example I enter a website, and one of their major competitors – I can set it to check them both for their target terms. I could then email a report on this automatically. I can also create graphs showing how rankings rise and climb over time, which is extremely useful for spotting problems that may have occurred.

Google API Support

Also you can use the Google API key if you wish, in fact you can use multiple ones – so you can make more than 1000 requests to Google per day – if you have an API key of course. Unfortunately I didn’t have one – but I haven’t had any problems with Google so far, and I doubt I ever will.

Always Up-to-date

One thing that really impressed me is that the day Bing was released Advanced Web Ranking had an update to replace the multiple MSN/Live search engines with Bing instead. They keep everything up-to-date and they support so many search engines.

Set Triggers

You can also set triggers to produce a report when certain criteria has been met (e.g. dropped off page one, or dropped a ranking). Which is very handy if you have lots of projects and thousands of keywords to monitor.

Overall

Overall Advanced Web Ranking is extremely powerful – it has literally saved me days of work over the past month and we have been able to obtain rankings more often allowing us to provide better service to our clients. Overall I would give Advanced Web Ranking 9/10 (I’d give it 10, but obviously rank checking inflates reported search volumes). I recommend you try out the 30 day trial, just visit www.advancedwebranking.com