Finding out where you rank in the search engine results for your chosen keywords is extremely important. However it can be more difficult than you might imagine, especially if you have more than one website. If you only have one website then you may able to track your ranking with manual searches, but if you have more than one site, it can become difficult, and you might use one of the rank checking sites available on the web.
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Finding out where you rank in the search engine results for your chosen keywords is extremely important. However it can be more difficult than you might imagine, especially if you have more than one website. If you only have one website then you may able to track your ranking with manual searches, but if you have more than one site, it can become difficult, and you might use one of the rank checking sites available on the web.

The main issue with these sites is that they are not very accurate. They either give you results from the wrong region, or from too broad a region, i.e. Google.com rankings rather than Google.co.uk rankings. Also, they quite often draw their results from a different hub altogether and so do not give a proper idea of your exact at that given time.

The problem is worsened by Googles limits on the amount of searches that you can make in an hour. The limit is currently 200 in an hour. This is the same as searching four keywords and looking through the rankings up to rank 500. This will become a big problem if you have several websites with several keywords each.

The solution to this problem is a partially automated piece of software that will run searches on your desired Google engine, stay within their search limits and give you accurate information every time you run it. You will also want it to give you information on your current number of backlinks, the traffic that comes from your individual keywords, information on your competitor sites etc.

Most software of this nature wont do all this, let alone give you the option to white-label the software and sell it on as your own. Finding software that is accurate and dependable is very difficult, but not impossible. If you are an SEO company, your results will create the outline of your reputation, and your reports to your clients are a very important part of that process. Your clients need to be able to see genuine data that shows how hard you are working for them.

Your Clients will not understand your business as well as you do, so information needs to be provided that will help them to see improvement. Good software should allow this, so you can show your clients their ranking improvements month on month as well as the growth in link volumes which is driving the improvements for their site. Your clients will probably not understand the finite workings of SEO, but by providing some KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) you will enable your relationship with them to grow.

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