As you may have already read on our social shares on Google+ and Twitter, February and March have been two very interesting and challenging months for our team. We’ve worked intensively on a new version for GeoRanker, a version accompanied by an entirely different design, loaded with features that have been on our to-do-list for a long time. The new GeoRanker portal is almost complete. For the next couple of weeks we’re releasing the portal in Beta, allowing you to test the app out and help us fix any missed bugs or errors. So, here’s what you should expect from the platform…

Updated reports structure

As the GeoRanker reports grow in content and richness, we believed it was necessary to take serious measures to simplify the navigation through our reports. Thus, the GeoRanker Beta Portal is structured in 4  major sections:

  1. Rank Tracker - specially designed to keep constant track of your website’s SERP evolution. Thanks to your new monitor reports, SERP changes will be automatically checked by our crawlers and saved into your account.
  2. HeatMap Report - this section provides you with two colorful, highly intuitive heatmaps (one for organic results and one for advertisers), that will give you a quick overview of all sites that rank for a particular query in different locations. This is great if you want to start a competition analysis or develop new link prospecting strategies.
  3. 1st Page Report – lists the TOP10 sites that rank for your keyword in each analyzed city/country.
  4. Advertisers Report – use this tool to get a quick overview of your Adwords competition and optimize your PPC campaign accordingly.

Smooth and clean interface

Instead of viewing the whole information on a page, we sorted everything into 4 distinct sections. The color scheme of the new GeoRanker platform is lighter, HeatMap results have become easier to distinguish and functions, such as creating a PDF report, configuring a monitor, updating or deleting a report, are now far more accessible.

Analyze unlimited keywords and locations

We know that this has been bugging many of our customers, who needed to generate mass reports for hundreds of keywords, this is why we decided to drop keyword limit! The new platform works with credits, you can use your purchased credits to generate a report for as many keywords as you need.

Google Places Prospecting made easier

The Local Map Reports displays on a map the top results for a particular search based on their physical location. This feature is now available in the 1st Page Reports and in the Advertisers Reports.

Global / Local Distinction

GeoRanker Local Global Reports Creating reports is just as easy as before, only we’ve added a new distinction to the whole process, to ease your navigation on GeoRanker. As you log in to your account, go to the top menu and click on “New Report” to generate a SERP analysis. If you own a website with an international target, “Global Reports” are just the right thing for you. They are designed to analyze SERP rankings in different countries and continents all over the world. On the other hand,  ”Local Reports” is designed for sites with a regional or national target. Select this option whenever you wish to create a country specific report, monitoring SERP results in different cities within the same country.

Export reports as CSV or PDF

Reports can now be exported either as a whole, either section based (Rank Tracker, HeatMaps, 1st Page Reports or Advertisers Reports). There are two ways of as a whole go to “My Reports”, to the right of the designated report click “Action” and then click the “Download as PDF / CSV” button. Your downloadable report will be ready for download within few seconds!

API integration for other platforms

If you’re a tool developer or a SEO agency, gaining direct access to our API might just be the right thing. We created a separate section to support you in understanding how the GeoRanker API works and how you can implement it into your current projects. For more information got to apidocs.georanker.com.

Having said this, we happily invite you to test the new GeoRanker platform in Beta. Please note that we are still going through few testings,  if you encounter any bugs or errors, please report them to us. We wish you a happy browsing experience and looking forward to getting your feedback! :)

Why you should upgrade to Monitors?

 

1. Ranking History and Alerts on Rank changes features will be soon added to our local SERP analysis tool. Starting with this new release, GeoRanker has started to store all of your past and future reports. In March all this data will become available in your account.

2. Time Saving - with monitors you won’t have to worry about updating each of your reports manually. Use our tool to set the desired update frequency (daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly) and let us take care of the whole SERP crawling process.

February is big month for our team, as it marks one year since we publicly released the first GeoRanker Local Ranking Reports.  We are happy to celebrate our first aniversary with the release of My Monitors - a new section in your GeoRanker accounts, that will open the way to an entire set of new features and SERP tools.  In this post we are going to introduce you to GeoRanker Monitors and explain why it is important for you to upgrade your old reports to monitors.

GeoRanker My Monitors SERP

What are Monitors?

Monitors are a new type of SERP Reports that can be created only by registered users (including free and paid subscriptions). Compared to our standard reports, they store information about your ranking history, thus enabling you to access and compare SERP reports generated on different dates (this is a feature we are planing to release in May). They also contain the “Update Frequency” feature, through which you can create reports that will automatically update every day, week or month.

Generating GeoRanker Monitors GeoRanker Local SERP Monitors

Monitors can be generated through the same form featured on our homepage at georanker.com. To create your first monitor enter all your usual ranking information: keywords, website URL, country, language and other settings. Once you’re done, scroll down to the end of the form and right before the big “Generate Report” button you will find the settings for your monitor. To find the settings more easier I attached a print screen and highlighted the areas for the report monitor settings (see right photo).

1. Tick the box below “Create a monitor to this report” and GeoRanker will start saving the ranking history for your report.

2. Frequency: use this setting to configure how often you want GeoRanker to update your rankings.

Once you have clicked the “Generate Report” button your new analysis will be saved as a monitored search in your account’s MyMonitors section.

Updating your old Reports to Monitors

At the present moment there is no way to convert your old reports into monitors automatically. What you can do is re-generate each report and make sure to save is as monitor (by following the above described steps). Even if it takes some to do so, we highly recommend you to upgrade to the new GeoRanker Monitors.

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If you find this update useful, don’t forget to spread the news on your favorite SM platforms.

Many of us are aware with Google’s latest updates. It’s ever changing algorithm in the guise of “Penguin” and “Panda” has rocked the SEO platform. This has made it essential for webmasters to ponder their back-linking strategies. “Panda” shook the landscape on April 2012 and shortly after “Penguin” was introduced, just like a one-two punch.

 As we are approaching the end of the year and the Christmas holidays, there’s still so much going on in our offices. 2012 has been an important year for the Local SEO industry and it has also been a crucial year for our team. Below I will try to summarize what’s been going on in the past 12 months and give you a quick behind-the-scenes look at KeywordSearchRankings.com.

Looking back at Local SEO in 2012

From the top changes of the year I want to mention first of all the unexpectedly growing popularity of local searches. It is clear that international searches are over-saturated, SERP results are filled with time-honored, well established websites and companies

It’s no secret that local search changed dramatically over the last 10 months, and as 2012 comes to a close, it’s important for local businesses and search engine optimization firms to continue to adjust their strategies to ensure success in 2013 – especially when it comes to content.

To get the most out of your local organic search campaign in 2013, developing a solid content marketing strategy that utilizes a diverse mixture of content channels to promote your web content is essential. Creating and distributing exceptional web content can have a substantial impact on your overall local search optimization efforts, and there are several benefits that come with executing this strategy.

While you should be using tools like Twitter and Google Alerts to keep your pulse on the latest trends in your industry and creating up-to-date content around these trends, there’s also something to be said for creating “evergreen” content that people will always need.

What’s the best way to generate blog content that will stand the test of time and consistently bring you a stream of traffic month after month, year after year?  One effective method is to identify relevant keywords and topics that are frequently searched in Google.  The best way to get started is with the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, also simply known as the Google Keyword Tool.â

Yesterday Google announced the addition of the Communities feature within Google+ which enables anyone to create or join groups devoted to certain topics or areas of interest. Gundotra, Google’s senior VP of engineering gave the following statement:

“We started Google+ in the first place to make online sharing as meaningful as the real thing. Too often, our online tools miss the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions, and Google+ aims to fix this. Fortunately we’ve got a vibrant community to guide us.”


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