RankGuru SEO 4+

This app is great for the price. Most competing apps cost 15-20 times as much!

The good: this thing works. It returns daily search engine ranks, keeps track of things for you, and can export to spreadsheets. Keeps track of multiple keywords for multiple sites. Adding keywords is simple from text documents. Yay!

The bad: managing keywords is cumbersome and it’s slow at searching large sets. Also, it’s slow. If you’re doing research with large volumes of keywords, expect it to take hours to update. I just ran a batch of 1200 keyword combinations for an initial data spread for a client, and it took 48 hours to complete. I like to have large datasets to work with. This app can do it, but it takes a long time. Also, now I’m forced to either delete hundreds of those keywords one-by-one or delete all the data and import a fresh keyword set with no history. I’ll keep the data in Xcel, but it would be nicer to keep all the data in the app.

Update: After a month of using this, I have a few issues. First, This app is sending a huge number of automated inquiries to Google, which is against Google’s webmaster guidelines and has led to google blocking my network. Why not search with preferences saved to show 100 search results? Second, I’m traveling in India right now, and this app cannot check Google USA from India (and presumably other foreign countries). I was confused why my rankings were suffering, and that turned out to be the answer. I do SEO for work, and need to buy a new tool.

This is straightforward and simple - the app refreshes the rankings every interval you set [every hour, 4, 6, 12, 24, etc] and is very, very useful for a snapshot of how your site is doing SEO-wise. 5 out of 5 for sure, worth the $5 as it eliminates quite a bit of time out of your day if you need to check your rankings within your SEO efforts..

This tool works great for the small sets of keywords I use it for. I currently use it to track search results on 3 to 5 keywords I select for each page I research. It works great for that and I love watching my results crawl up toward the top (and sometimes down).