Looking for New Local Rank Tracking Tool

[wcssderek]

We're in the market for a new seo tool that can do local rank tracking (Google Maps) as well as provide organic (Google Desktop & Mobile) ranking results. Bonus points if it also offers a Geo Grid to show how we rank for a keyword phrase when plotted on a map. Our current vendor offers these things, but has become very unreliable in terms of the accuracy of its data. Cost is a factor for us as well. We'd prefer to pay on a total keyword usage basis rather than a location or project basis, because we have over 100 locations and are growing. Any ideas?

 

[UKSBD]

If you want something a lot more basic, without any tracking but which shows the results people see when searching from specific locations (on organic search or local results on a map) have a look at this - Trick Google in to thinking you are searching from any location search google by location

It just shows the results on Google, has no tracking, charts, graphs or anything like that.

It's completely free though and useful for individual checking to see what people in other locations see (to a degree)

 

[JohnMarathonAir]

Hey Derek,

You might want to check out the Whitespark Local Rank Tracker. It really excels for multi-location rank tracking.

See this comparison with BrightLocal.

And we JUST launched our new Google Business Profiles Tab today, which is very helpful for analyzing rankings across locations, and for finding duplicates in Google. Here's a 2 minute video on it.

I think you'd be surprised how inexpensive it is.

If you want to send me a spreadsheet of locations and a list of keywords, I'll fire up a demo for you so you can test it out. You can email me at darren@whitespark.ca.

Hello. I'm a current and former customer of numerous WhiteSpark services, including the rank tracker. Can you please explain (your opinion) why your results would be substantially different from BrightLocal in particular, but also LocalFalcon & (less important because their grid has totally stopped working for me but in the past) GridMyBusiness? Thank you!!

 

[whitespark]

Hello. I'm a current and former customer of numerous WhiteSpark services, including the rank tracker. Can you please explain (your opinion) why your results would be substantially different from BrightLocal in particular, but also LocalFalcon & (less important because their grid has totally stopped working for me but in the past) GridMyBusiness? Thank you!!

Hi John. I would expect every rank tracker to report different results, and I would expect you to see different results any time you manually search. This is because Google's results are changing all the time, and they vary significantly based on so many factors:

- Device
- Browser
- Location
- History
- Time of day

Every tool will use different variations of these variables, and even if they did use the exact same device, and browser, it's actually impossible for them to use the same location (IP Address), have the same history, or search at the exact time.

So, for these reasons, you just can't compare results across tools, and you can't even compare results manually. This doesn't mean that any of the tools are more "accurate" than others. They're all "accurate" in that this is the data they received from Google when they searched with the specific parameters set.

Does that help?