November 29, 2007Fast and Easy Google Rankings Checker

Since this resell rights website launched earlier this month, I’ve been keeping tabs on the traffic and search engine rankings because I have a vested interest in how this website performs in the natural search results.

By far the easiest online tool that I have found, in terms of keeping tabs on Google rankings (as well as Yahoo, MSN and Ask rankings) is the Googlerankings.com website. However, this website requires that the user have a SOAP API key from Google…. something that has been discontinued since December of 2006. If you happen to have obtained this key before Google discontinued it, Googlerankings.com is an easy resource for website owners who want to check their rankings in all of the major search engines simultaneously, with ease.

Now, it would be kind of mean-spirited of me to create this post and have you find it through the search engines only to wind up with nothing usable because you don’t have the Google SOAP API key… so, here’s another resource where you can check your website’s ranking in the search engines for a few more of the more prominent search engines, and it doesn’t require the API key:

Mikes Marketing Tools - Ranking Reports

While this is a free resource, it doesn’t quite give you the freedom that Googlerankings.com does as the queries are limited to the top 50 results of Google, Yahoo, AOL, AlltheWeb, Altavista, MSN as well as the Yahoo Directory, Looksmart and Dmoz.

In any case, keeping up with the rankings of your website, especially when you are looking to out-perform your competition, can mean the difference between low-rankings (worthless) and front-page rankings (priceless).