Proxies for SEO rank tracking
Run every keyword check from the country and city your customers search from, with a new residential IP for each query.
Recommended proxies
- One query per IP, no sticky session.
- Set the language parameter as well as the location.
- Use city keys for local business keywords.
- Spread daily checks across the day.
A setup that works
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Group keywords by country, language and city.
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Send each query through a rotating residential IP in that city.
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Use mobile proxies for keywords where mobile results differ.
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Parse rankings, local results and ads from the same response.
Search results are local
Search engines change results by country, city, language and device. A dentist ranking third in one district may not appear in the next one. Rank tracking from one office address shows your own local results, not your customers'. City targeted residential proxies show the page a searcher in that city sees.
Query volume without challenges
Search engines are quick to show challenges to addresses that send many queries. A new residential IP for every query keeps each address at one or two searches, which is what a person does. That is why rank trackers use rotating residential traffic and almost never datacenter IPs for search pages.
Mobile results
Mobile results often differ from desktop ones. For keywords where mobile matters, send the query through a mobile proxy with a mobile user agent to read the result a phone user sees.
SEO rank tracking: questions and answers
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