1. James Robertson Silver

    Web Manager at Birmingham City University

    27 February 2006 12:37pm

    avatar One of my more boring tasks is establishing where our sites sit in the major search engines for their nominated keywords.....

    As I am about to start doing this again as soon as February ends I thought I might be able to dodge a bullet this time around and find out if there are any sites or tools out there that fellow forum users know about?  Ideally it would let me specify our address, the keywords to check for and the search engines to check...
  2. Andrew Allfrey Gold

    Paid Search Specialists at Conversion Metrixs Ltd

    27 February 2006 14:29pm

    avatar Hi James,

    When using automated tools to check rankings you have to be careful that you don't contravene Googles guidelines. Only last week I had a client ringing up to say that Google had caught them using an automated tool and had prevented them from carrying out any searches on Google for a period of about 18 hours. Just bare this in mind and definetly don't go for anything like webpositiongold.

    The tool i've used previously is called www.advancedwebranking.com and is better than most because it uses Googles API. Another to consider is www.agentwebranking.com  although I havn't any experience with this.

    Hope thats of help.

    Kind Regards,


    Andrew Allfrey
    e-Prominence Limited
    Search Engine Marketing Services

    www.e-prominence.co.uk
    info@e-prominence.co.uk

    O: + 44 (0) 870 550 0046
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    On 12:37:59 27 February 2006 JamesRobertson wrote:

     

    One of my more boring tasks is establishing where our sites sit in the major search engines for their nominated keywords.....

    As I am about to start doing this again as soon as February ends I thought I might be able to dodge a bullet this time around and find out if there are any sites or tools out there that fellow forum users know about?  Ideally it would let me specify our address, the keywords to check for and the search engines to check...

     

  3. Colin Tilson

    Marketing Co-ordinator at TUDOR MODELS LTD

    01 March 2006 11:15am

    avatar Hi,

    I've used Agentwebranking for over 2 years now and it's superb. The software works perfectly and customer service queries have been answered quickly and intelligently.

    They now use a 'tunnel' system to which means all the queries the software sends effectively are sent from AWR's office to the search engine. Effectively AWR are then carrying the risk of breaking a search engine's terms. 

    Before using the tunnel our company's IP was blocked by Google for a few hours. This only happened once in over 2 years and since the tunnel was implemented there have been no problems at all.

    I consider it worth the risk.

    Paul

    On 12:37:59 27 February 2006 JamesRobertson wrote:

     

    One of my more boring tasks is establishing where our sites sit in the major search engines for their nominated keywords.....

    As I am about to start doing this again as soon as February ends I thought I might be able to dodge a bullet this time around and find out if there are any sites or tools out there that fellow forum users know about?  Ideally it would let me specify our address, the keywords to check for and the search engines to check...

     

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