Site Rank Reporter Filename Important

January 29, 2010

If you’re taking care of more than one website, it might interest you to know how to easily follow keyword rankings for each site as listed by the top search engines.

Grab the SEOBook.com Toolbar which has a lot of other goodies to explore. Once installed, bring up the Search Engine Ranking Checker by clicking on the fireball.

Enter the domain and keyword combination that you’re interested in tracking and then hit ‘Start.’ If your site is in the top 200 listings for the given keyword phrase, its position or ranking will be listed. If not, just a dash will show.

Export the file for future use. Here, you should take a second to make a new folder and call it ‘rankings’ or whatever. Export the results that you want to keep as a csv file into the new folder.

Collect these rankings reports over a period of time, say weeks. Then you can check out the Site Rank Reporter Add-On for Firefox. Just point it to the folder containing the ranking report csv files.

TIP: Make sure the files are saved with filenames that fit the format MM-DD-YY.csv, where MM, DD and YY are the numbers representing the actual date of the rankings.

A file with the name 21-jan-10.csv wont’ work!