How To Track Your Keyword Rankings [OSEO-18]

Hello guys, this is Tim Solo from Ahrefs, and today I want to show you how to track your keyword rankings. Because when you do search engine optimization and build backlinks to your site, you want to know if all these efforts are moving your site up in the search results. So you're watching episode number 18 of the oversimplified SEO. Okay, there are actually tons of different rank tracking tools, and if you google for rank tracker You'll find quite a few different options and each of them has its pros and cons But if you're using Ahrefs We have our own tool for tracking your keyword positions Which is called positions tracker and it can be found at your dashboard Under the positions tracker tab. So as you can see for every website that I have added to the dashboard I can track the keyword positions. So here are the keyword positions for my website called tweetthis.com As you can see the first column Shows different keywords that I'm interested in then I can put different locations because as you may know Google will show you different positions based on the location where you're searching for this keyword Then you see the actual position in Google then mobile rank because when you're searching on your mobile device The rank might be different and of course the actual URL that is ranking at this position Okay Let's say I need to add a few more keywords to this list to find out how well my website is Ranking for these keywords in Google. So I click the button add keywords and There's a field where I put my keywords for example tweet Quotes and then I I have to specify the location Let's track this keyword in United States and let's also track it just for the sake of this tutorial in United Kingdom Okay, and they click done. So here's what we have now Here's the position of the tweet quotes keyword in the United States It shows me position number eight and the same keyword tweet quotes in the United Kingdom Position number eleven. So as you can see, I rank a little worse in The United Kingdom and the last cool feature that I wanted to show you is the history chart That you can open by clicking this little button on the right side of your report So this is the progress chart for tweet this plug-in keyword and You can pretty much see the positions history starting from the 9th of November Which is when this keyword was added to the tool and pretty much till today This kind of report is especially valuable when you're doing a SEO for a client and you need to show him how your efforts Are pushing his website up in Google search results So this was a pretty short episode, but I hope you learned something from it Anyway, if you have any questions about search engine optimization Feel free to send them to me by email and I'll try to answer them in one of my next episodes Here's my email address, by the way And to make sure that you won't miss my next video Please subscribe to Ahrefs YouTube channel because I am recording these short videos answering different SEO questions every single week So, please subscribe by clicking on this button, and I'll see you in the next episode. Bye