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I had a legacy Keyword Tracker account, where is my data?

Under the settings page, you can link your legacy Keyword Tracker accounts to your Digital Point account. You can link an unlimited number of Keyword Tracker accounts (in case you separated your data by different accounts). No data is lost. If you do not have a Digital Point account, you can create one here.

What is the cost?

It's free to monitor rankings up to 20 positions (first two pages of search results) deep. Premium members can track positions up to 200 positions deep.

Can you track more than keywords?

Yes, the system can track keyword ranking, number of backlinks, PageRank and the number of pages your site has within a search engine's index.

How is this done?

We don't "scrape" search engine results, instead we utilize available APIs given by each search engine to programmatically get the data. It requires that you install a small PHP script on your server that our system can communicate with.

Why does the script need to go on my server?

Some search engine APIs put limitations on how many queries you can run per day based on the requestors IP address. For example, Yahoo limits API queries to 5,000 per day per IP address. By using your server's IP address for the throttling, we are able to offer this tool to a larger number of people.

What version of PHP do I need on my server?

PHP 5.2.0 or higher is required (it also must have cURL w/ SSL support).

How many keywords/URLs can I track?

Unlimited (although you are bound by the restrictions of the number of API calls each search engine allows per day).

Can I track keyword positions for sites I don't own?

Yes, you can, there are no limitations on the number of domains/URLs you can track.

I'm getting an N/A (not available) ranking, but I know it should be in there.

Make sure your URL matches... are you entering http://www.yourdomain.com, but Google returns http://yourdomain.com for example? It does a simple pattern match, so if Google returns http://www.yourdomain.com/products/wigets/ for example, you could enter the URL in the keyword tool as the exact URL or something like: http://www.yourdomain.com or even just yourdomain.com.

I had a lower position, but now it's higher. Why does it still report the lower position?

The system attempts to make as efficient use of API calls as possible by starting it's search from your last known position. Because of this, if your old position remains in its current place, but a new page in your domain ranks higher, it will stop searching for your rank after it locates the first one (which will be your last known position). To get around this, you can trigger the "Check All" function to run and search from the beginning of the results by clicking here.

I've set my settings to search 200 positions deep, but it's not working.

Google's API has a hard limit of being able to search 100 positions deep, so for Google it's impossible to search deeper than 100. Bing and Yahoo should let you go the full 200 though.

How big is this?

Pretty big. As of September 2010, the system is tracking historical rankings for 2,900,000 keywords and 210,000 websites for nearly 100,000 registered users. Oh, and the system has 210,000,000 points of historical ranking data. So yeah... it's pretty big. :)

I still need help with something...

We have a support forum over here that you can get any sort of help you need.