Part of the many tasks associated with search engine optimization (SEO) is measuring the success of your efforts. This measurement can take the form of increased traffic or increased conversions. More simply though is just keeping track of how your site ranks in the search engines for the keywords that you've chosen. Unfortunately, keeping track of search engine rankings can become very tedious once the list of keywords grows beyond a handful or the number of sites under your care increases.
Fortunately, a company called Digital Point has created a free Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool. With this tool you can keep track of numerous keywords for numerous sites. Getting updated stats is as simple as clicking a button and giving the program time to run.
To get the most out of the tool you'll need a Google API key and you'll also need to be able to post a PHP script on one of your publicly accessible web servers. The Google API key allows you to query the Google database without violating their terms of use. The PHP script is needed to query MSN and Yahoo. All three search engines impose limits on the number of queries you can do per day, but the limit is quite reasonable.
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