Best Free Keyword Rank Checker and Monitoring Tools

22 Aug, 2017

Best Free Keyword Rank Checker and Monitoring Tools < SEO Tips

An important part of SEO is to regularly monitor the keywords you're attempting to rank for and to see whether your efforts have made any progress. Doing this manually can be tedious and time-consuming, which is why we’have compiled a list of some of the best free keyword rank checking and monitoring tools.

1. Allorank (web service)
Allorank is a keyword tracking service that gives you 100 credits each month to track your websites. Credits can be used to track keywords across any number of websites – the amount of credits used will vary based on how often you want the keywords to be monitored/checked. You can select which countries you want it to use when checking results, as well as view competitors that are ranking for your keywords.

2. SEMRush (web service)
SEMRush is an all-in-one web service that provides statistics and competitor insights on search engine marketing (SEM). In addition to this, they also provide keyword tracking and monitoring, with a free account allowing you to track 1 website with up to 10 keywords. Unlike many of the other services, their free service lets you monitor city specific search results (local search results), which you can select when configuring the monitoring service. There is a paid version, which provides a great deal of additional functionality and support.

3. SEO SERP Workbench (Chrome extension)
SEO SERP Workbench is a free browser-based tool for Chrome (extension) that lets you check and track the position of multiple sites and keywords over time. All of the data is stored locally on your machine, and you can track results from different countries.

4. Pro Rank Tracker (web service)
Pro Rank Tracker (PRT) is a decent keyword monitoring tool that can track keyword rankings for your websites across a number of search engines. Recently they downgraded their free package limiting it to tracking just 2 URLs with up to a maximum of 20 keywords and no longer support local tracking, reports or notifications

5. Small SEO Tools (web service)
Use this keyword rank checker tool to track keywords position for website. Enter Keywords and Url and see keyword ranking report instantly.