Rank Tracker Free Edition

As its name suggests, Rank Tracker Free Edition is the free version of the commercial Rank Tracker application that has been designed to act as powerful SEO (Search Engine Optimization) application for monitoring search engines rankings and research keywords.

Features at a glance

Key features include rank tracking, keyword research, SEO reports, traffic metrics, search safety, easy data management and flexible settings. The free edition of Rank Tracker includes 99% of the features of Rank Tracker Pro edition.

Rank Tracker allows users to easily and quickly track their website's rankings on various search engines, supports over 300 search engines, monitors any number of websites, tracks your competitor's rankings, as well as to compare your competitor's rankings with yours.

In addition, the application uses lets users to discover profitable keywords by using powerful keyword suggestion methods, keeps history records of rankings, and creates beautiful progress graphs.

How does it work?

The application is quite simple to use. It will ask you to enter the URL of your website from the get-to and automatically checks your search engine rankings. Then, it displays regular updates of your website’s location on search results, in real-time.

It’s graphical user interface is sophisticated, yet straightforward and easy to use, making use of tabs to display various sections. You can also view progress and visibility graph, history records, ranking data, visits graph, as well as keyword difficulty.

Under the hood and supported OSes

A quick look under the hood of Rank Tracker will show us that the application is written entirely in the cross-platform Java programming language, which means that is will run well on any operating system where the Java Runtime Environment is supported, including all GNU/Linux distributions, as well as the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It has been successfully tested with both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.

What is new in this release:

• Minor bug-fixes and stability improvements added.

What is new in version 6.12.1:

• A number of minor usability enhancements and bug-fixes were implemented to further improve Rank Tracker's stability and performance.

What is new in version 6.12:

• From now on Rank Tracker uses Chromium browser to let you conveniently browse Web pages right from the software.

What is new in version 6.11.21:

• Miscellaneous: Numerous minor bugs in rank checking module were fixed: bugs in rank checker with cached results, Aol, Yandex positions checker.
• Installer: Users experienced an error installing SEO PowerSuite apps to folders with non-Latin names. This has been fixed.

What is new in version 6.11.20:

• A number of minor usability enhancements and bug-fixes were implemented to further improve Rank Tracker's stability and performance.

What is new in version 5.0.2:

• Now you can use 20 advanced keyword research methods to unearth profitable keywords to optimize your Web site for.
• The four newly-added methods are: Google Trends for Websites, Yahoo Search clues, Bing Related search suggestions, Ask Related search suggestions.
• Besides, when calculating competition for each keyword, Rank Tracker can now use advanced parameters (such as allititle, allinurl, etc.).

What is new in version 5.0:

• Identify where exactly your competitors rank for your targeted keywords in any of 700+ supported search engines
• Compare your website's rankings to your main competitors to benchmark your search engine presence and the effectiveness of your SEO efforts
• Track the historical changes in the competitive landscape of your keyword niche
• Be aware of what your competitors are up to and launch your counter-attacks in time to dampen their chances to succeed
• Keep track of the SEO progress of a number of websites you're optimizing for the same keywords

What is new in version 4.15.5:

• Rank Tracker now lets you check your Web site's positions in 687 local and international search engines.
• Support was added for 13 more search engines.
• Moreover, Rank Tracker was updated to changes in Yahoo! search algorithms, caused by Yahoo!'s switching to Bing's technology.

What is new in version 4.13.12:

• The interface was translated into French.
• Updates were made for changed search engines' algorithms.
• The "Keywords losing positions" workspace was added.

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment

Limitations:

• You can't save projects in the FREE version