Best Keyword Tracking Tools to Check and Monitor Your Organic Keyword Rankings

22 Nov Best Keyword Tracking Tools to Check and Monitor Your Organic Keyword Rankings

If you type keyword tracking tool into your web browser, you’ll likely to get a long list of tools for keyword tracking. However, many of these tools come at a hefty price.

If you’re a freelancer or a small business owner on a budget, you might not be able to afford to pay hundreds of dollars each month, in order to use them.

Fortunately, there are also many free keyword tracking tools available for tracking keywords for your website so you know how well you’re ranking.

So why do you need to know what keywords your website is ranking for?

If you haven’t figured it out, SEO is all about how well your keywords are ranking in Google results. The more keywords you’re ranking for and the higher your rankings are, the more traffic you will attract.

By knowing what keywords to optimize for, you can improve your content and push your pages even higher in search engine results generating even more traffic. And this is the ultimate goal of SEO and website optimization.

That’s why it’s so crucial to know how well your keywords are positioned in Google search engine results. Knowing what keywords you’re ranking for will help you make necessary improvements so you can continue to grow and generate more traffic.

To help you, I put together a list of free keyword ranking tools you can use to find and monitor positions of your keywords.

Google Search Console

One of the easiest ways to check your search engine rankings is by using Google Search Console. Simply login to your Google search console account, then navigate to Search Traffic and then Search Analytics. Choose Queries and select clicks, impressions, CTR, and position to find your most popular keywords, their rankings, and other important stats.
You can also click on the headers to organize the results so you can easily see which keywords are getting most clicks and impressions. If some of your pages are getting tons of impressions, but no clicks, you might want to optimize those page to increase the clicks. Try updating the title and meta tag to more accurately describe the content of the page to get people interested in clicking the link. You can also see what keywords show up on the second page of google results and optimize those pages to try to get better rankings so they can move to the first page.

HubShout

HubShout works in a similar fashion. You can use this tool to find all the organic keywords you’re ranking for using their Web Grader tool. In addition to finding your organic keyword rankings, you can also find what your most popular pages are. Below is the video on how to use HubShout to check search engine keyword rankings for your website.

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SEMRush

SEM is another amazing tool. Even though the free account limits you to monitoring only 10 keywords, it can still be quite useful.

Once you setup your free account and add a project, you then be able to add 10 keywords you can monitor over time. Use Search Console or Hub Shout to find the keywords you want to track and add them to keyword tracking panel inside the project management dashboard. You can even email yourself reports with your latest keyword tracking data.

 Other Free Keyword Position Checker Tools

Below are a few more keyword tools I use that are free to use and don’t require registration for checking the position of your keywords in Google SERPs.

• SERP Lab Free Google SERP Checker – Check your Search Engine Ranking Position quickly and accurately using SERPLAB free tool. You can check up to 5 keywords at a time.
• SERP Surf – Serp Surf is a quick and reliable SERP CHECKER that checks the Search Engine Ranking Position of your website for free.
• SEO Centro SERP Checker – Part of SEO Centro Toolset. Searches a single keyword and shows its position in Google and Yahoo search results.
• Keyword Rank Checker – Another keyword rank tracker. This one is from Small SEO Tools website. Checks positions of up to 10 keywords at a time.

Good luck and remember if you can’t measure, you can’t improve. Be diligent and stay on top of your keyword rankings using the tools listed in this article, so you can improve and continue to grow the traffic to your website.

Gene

Gene is Web Developer & the Founder of BigAppleMedia. He helps clients get leads & grow traffic by building smart & result driven websites and applying the latest SEO strategies. Schedule a Free Consultation