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Do I Need SEO Software to Study my Website Rankings?

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To be able to achieve higher search engines ranking, you must understand how search engines work, and learn some techniques that help you boost your sites’ rankings. But, I must tell that every website or blog has it’s own nature, it’s something so close to finger prints, so typically no one can match results from two different websites, even if they are in the same niche and talking about the same topics, the results will always difference from a website to another, which makes it a total different experience. I find it really useful to use useful SEO software.

Why using SEO Software is useful?

Personally, and even after several years of blogging and doing internet marketing, I still find the SEO hard to understand some times because there are many data you have to watch and keep eye on, and also because this data is not static, it changes all the time based on many factors, for example: competition), even the way that search engines works can change at any time, remember Google’s Panda update?

And, it’s impossible to try figure out your rankings and compare it with your competitors rankings without using a good SEO software.

This is why I am trying to locate free time to try out new search engines optimization software and services that makes it more easier for me to follow up with my sites’ rankings and collect the data I need to analyse about my competitors.

I just found a new SEO software that helps a lot, it’s called Sheer SEO, and you can find it at SheerSEO.com.

SheerSEO Software Overview

sheerseo software

It’s really amazing the amount of development that those guys  put in this software, here are some of it’s main features that I like most:

Track Rankings

You will be able to track your rankings on Google, Yahoo and Bing, some times it’s hard to monitor a large amount of search terms and to remember the ranking of a specific search term at a given point in time, this feature will help you a lot!

Track PageRank

Some people think that Google PageRank is not important, probably when they don’t have it, but once they got a PR for their site or enternal pages, they will change their minds instantly.  SheerSEO will give you easy page rank view over multiple pages within your website.

Estimate Traffic

SheerSEO can estimate the monthly search volume and the average click cost cost for this keyword in Google, it grabs this data from Google Keyword Tool.

Use Google Analytics

SheerSEO software grab data from Google Analytics, which can be called “real clicks”, then present this data with the rest of the rankings data. So, this makes is easier to understand the benefits gained from the keywords ranked in organic search results.

Social Bookmarking Tracking

Many bloggers use social bookmarking sites to submit their posts, with SheerSEO you can actually track the number of bookmarks to your site, I see this as a very interesting feature, but I would like to see more developmet in the software to include sites rather than Digg and Delicious which are not used by the massive blogging community of today.

Tracking Competitors

I bet you are interested in knowing how your competitors are doing with their rankings, I see this as important part of any business, which is to locate and monitor competitors’ current rankings.

Track Facebook Mentions

We all know that Facebook is a great source of traffic, Some people claim that sharing posts/links on Facebook can enhance your search engine rankings, however this is not confirmed. SheerSEO software tracks activities in Facebook that mentions your site.

The Facebook activities tracked are:

  • Number of Facebook shares.
  • Number of Facebook likes.
  • Number of Facebook comments.

There are many other useful feature, you can take a look to the full list of SheerSEO software features here.

Try SheerSEO for 90 days

There is too much stuff to do with this awesome software, you also can jump in and give it a try. You can create SEO report for your site, and try SheerSEO for a whole 90 days for free.

To your success!

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I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

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  1. Charles Cawley says:
    SEO is a dark art. The problem is that what search engines want is changing all the time. Perhaps, the only truth is that if you think you know what you are talking about, you're kidding yourself. There are a few definite 'dos and don'ts'. We were conned by SEO services two years ago and the source was an established company which is quite well known, dating back to the late 1990s. Even they could not resist cashing in on our obvious ignorance. That little episode upset Google and cost us in cash paid paid out for duff advice in the region of £1600. It took about four and a half months to sort out the damage. This excludes the cost of lost sales and time to sort out the mess. Our approach is radically different. We do not major on keeping secrets and manipulating or exploiting the need for honest advice and guidance from our customers. Instead, we publish how to set up your own business in our sector. This angers our competitors but spreads happiness and light so that if people really feel the need to use a middle man, (in our case, a cottage booking agency), they have the confidence that we do not share the worst 1990s IT attitudes which are, still, astonishingly common.
  2. Sadia Deedar says:
    This plugin will be effective against the new bloggers really a nice post.. but i have a question.. i want to know that how can i make single title in my posts.. coz my title + my blog titles are coming together in my pots
  3. courtney stodden says:
    I personally don’t use this software, but I will take a look at that. At the moment I am using just rank checker to track my rankings, thanks for sharing the post.
  4. mr moleman says:
    SheerSEO is a great bit of kit for analysing your historical seo progress, but does nothing to your actual rankings. The link building tab leaves most of the work up to you. Then you can either use a tool like Ignite SEO to build the links automatically, or find some good footprints and do it yourself.
  5. Jason says:
    I have to recommend Cuterank. Today I experienced their customer service for the first time when I discovered that the software was confusing .com and .co in the rankings - returning some pretty interesting data... ;-) Within half an hour of emailing support, I got a link to a patched version of the program. I used another SEO software before, whose name I'm not going to mention. Their product was buggy, but what I really didn't like was their lack of customer focus. I will not likely return to that vendor, ever. Customer service makes, and customer service breaks.
  6. Nik says:
    Hi, I have been using market samurai and apart from it being slow it has done the trick. I will try this one out and see if it speeds up the research. Thanks for the review, I was not aware of this program. Nik
  7. Jimmy says:
    It looks like a nice webmaster tool, but it´s a bit steep for even one domain. But it´s very user friendly I´ll give it that and it has a lot of great features, that any webmaster can use. If you own more than one domain, then it´s too expensive when you look at other softwares that do the same.
  8. greg ascentive says:
    Personally i believe in the winning combination of Google Analytics and a quality SEO toolbar for Firefox (which specific toolbar will remain unnamed... folks should be able to figure out the right ones with a little research!) :-)
  9. Cathy B says:
    There are so many great SEO programs out there but why are there not more free ones? It's all about the money. Good information though for those who wish to spend the money to make the money.
  10. Irfan says:
    I'm going to use this software. Thanks for the suggestion.
  11. Rahul says:
    yes I agree with ella. Software really makes difference.but it is good to use the combination of manual and software.
  12. Via Madison says:
    Oh, thanks for the idea. I am also looking for ways to improve my site's Google rankings. I'll keep your product in mind.
    • Hesham says:
      Great, thanks.
  13. icechen1 says:
    Sweet! 90 days is more than enough to get a feel of this great service!
    • Hesham says:
      I thought the same, most apps gives you only 30 days and limit your access dramatically to only one check!
  14. Web Maketers says:
    I just use rankchecker... works really well with firefox as a plugin and is free. But always double check manually if you can because different servers and locations generally get different results.. just a thing to note. Also I don't think most rank checkers pick up Google Places.. so if you are doing local search manual is the best way to go.
  15. Bjorn says:
    Yes, SEO software is a necessity if you want your websites to get traffic and rank high. Compare it to testing and tuning a race without a dashboard or any other means to measure speed, torque and rpm and such. Thanks for the tip on SheerSEO, I'm not currently using it, but will give it a try!
    • Hesham says:
      Yeap, this is something to pay attention to
  16. James says:
    Great Find Hesham. I have been using several keyword monitoring software before and wasn't all that impressed. This looks like it might be the one... I think I will have to look into it more.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey James, it's really nice piece of software, I hope you will find it useful!
  17. Mark says:
    Interesting. I wonder how it estimates traffic. My understanding is that estimating traffic has been a very tricky thing to pull off. Hesham, any idea if the numbers in this area are accurate? If so, I would be VERY interested in it. Mark
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Mark, The estimate traffic is pulled out of Google Keyword Tool, and it's not really accurate, but it gives you an idea!
  18. Mathu says:
    Thanks for sharing this! I personally don't use this software, but I will take a look at that. At the moment I am using just rank checker to track my rankings - it is not even software, it's a Firefox plugin :)
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Mathu , Firefox plugins or add-ons are cool, I personally use many of them on my browser, the same goes with Chrome, it gives you a fast view when needed.
  19. Through the Lens of Kimberly Gauthier, Photography Blog says:
    Thanks for this recommendation. As I'm working to build a blogging business through my photography blog I'm finding that I need to take advantage of various tools out there, but it's difficult to know where I should start. This is a great start for me.
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Kimberly , now you have a good start, I hope you find this SEO software useful
  20. Brandi Jo says:
    I wonder if I need to use some sort of software? Currently I am just using google analytics. I am building a network of sites that include my interests.
    • Hesham says:
      Google Analytics is not a bad thing at all, many SEOs are using it because it gives huge amount of useful information, this is also why most of SEO softwares are depending on it to provide data to their clients, probably the difference here is the software is able to display the data in a different way and make it more focused on some sears of interest.
  21. Fran the Online Writer says:
    Hi Hesham A good promotional and detailed post. it was informative and still a pleasure to read. Enjoy your day. Fran A
    • Hesham says:
      Thanks Fran, glad to hear that.
  22. Edgar says:
    It seems like an interesting software. I'm now using SEO Powersuite as i think it's great. But this software has some social networking features that no other one has. I would definitely try it out
    • Hesham says:
      Yes, the social tracking featured got my interest as well, maybe give it a try won't lose you anything!
  23. Atulperx says:
    Right now I am using google webmaster tool to check normal info regarding traffic but never used any software for full deep details . Thanks for sharing this free helpful stuff . I will sure try it ....
    • Hesham says:
      I think you should use some software or a service, at least for information, it could help you see things with a different eye! P.S. I hope you add comments next time using your name, not your website domain name!
  24. ella says:
    I think that the fact that the seo softwares are so userfriendly has dramatically increase their use...and the fact that they make such a huge difference :))
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Ella, Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you find this SEO software useful.