How do I add new keywords?

Click the ‘Add keywords’ link in the ‘All keywords’ page to add new keywords to the ranking monitor.

How can I check my rankings in Great Britain, Australia, France, etc.?

Click the ‘Add keywords’ link in the ‘All keywords’ page to add new keywords to the ranking monitor.

Then select the language and the region in which you want to check your rankings:

How do I stop checking a keyword?

If you don’t want to check the rankings for a keyword anymore, click the symbol next to the keyword in the ‘All keywords’ page.

When you delete a keyword, all historical information for that keyword will also be deleted.

How many keywords can I check?

The number of keywords depends on the SEOprofiler edition that you use:

• Starter members: 100 keywords
• Standard members: 500 keywords
• Smart members: 1,000 keywords
• Professional members: 2,500 keywords

A ranking check on all three search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing for the same country and language combination counts as only one keyword.

For example, if you check the position of your website for the keyword “fly fishing” on Google.com (English), Yahoo.com (English) and Bing.com (English), then this will count as only one keyword.

The free SEOprofiler demo version enables you to check up to 5 keywords.

How do I change the checked domain?

The checked domain is the domain of the project URL.

You cannot change the project domain but you can add a new project with another website domain in the dashboard.

How can I check more results pages?

You can’t. It’s not worth worrying about because the ranking results beyond the first 5 results pages tend to fluctuate randomly.

In addition, search engine traffic gained beyond the second or third results page is usually negligible.

How long does it take to check my rankings?

When you first enter your keywords in the ranking monitor, it depends on the server load how long it takes until your rankings are checked. After that, your rankings are automatically updated weekly.

As a general rule of thumb, the first ranking check takes 1-12 hours after entering new keywords in the ranking monitor.

How do I add a new search engine?

At this time, you cannot add other search engines. All keywords are checked on Google, Yahoo and Bing. They are reponsible for nearly all search engine traffic.

You can select one of country/language combinations when adding new keywords to the ranking monitor.

How often are the rankings checked?

The rankings are checked once per week (see reason below). An updated ranking report is always available on Fridays.

You can see the exact date of the ranking check by expanding a keyword in the ranking monitor (click the keyword name in the ‘Keyword’ page). Each keyword shows detailed information about the day of the last ranking check, the previous ranking check, and you also get a rank progression chart.

The exact day of the weekly ranking check is not always the same. In very rare cases, the rankings could be checked at the beginning of the week in week one and at the end of the week in week two.

Why should the rankings be checked weekly?

Some people want more frequent ranking checks but it is usually advisable to check the rankings just once per week:

• weekly ranking checks are enough to spot ranking trends
• daily ranking checks lead to more data but not to more insight
• daily ranking checks often lead to micromanagement work that doesn’t lead to extra revenue for you

Weekly ranking checks provide good insight into the search engine positions of your website without requiring too much time and effort on your part.

Check the rankings of your web pages once per week and then react to the changes. Use the ‘Alerts’ and ‘Opportunities’ pages in the ranking monitor to find the keywords that require your attention.

Why do SEOprofiler’s ranking results sometimes do not match my results?

There are several reasons why you can get different ranking results:

• Geographic bias: Search engines customize results based on your location (IP address). This means that users in one city or country often see different results than users in another city or country.

• Personalization: Search engines personalize your results based on your search history and your social connections. Make sure you are logged out from the search engine when performing a search. If you have the Google toolbar installed, it’s difficult to make sure that you are really logged out.

• Point in time: SEOprofiler’s ranking monitor checks your keywords once a week. The point in time is different for every keyword. The search engine rankings could have changed since our last ranking check.

• Fluctuation: Google is not a single computer but uses thousands of servers to form the ranking results. One of those servers might fail; several might be in the process of being updated, etc. This means that the search engine servers can differ from check to check and that they can contain different data.

• Web browser: Different web browsers can return different search results, for example, Internet Explorer can give different results than Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera, even if not logged into Google and without the Google toolbar.

You might want to try the following before performing another search to make sure that you really get different results:

• Log out from the search engine.
• Delete the cookies in your web browser.
• Uninstall the Google toolbar, or use a web browser without the Google toolbar.

We update the rankings once per week. If your rankings changed since the last ranking check, the new position will be reflected in the next 7 days.

Where do I get detailed information and a ranking timeline for each keyword?

In the ‘All keywords’ page, click the keyword name (or the arrow symbol on the right side of the keyword) to get detailed information about the keyword.