If you have a site online through which you make online transactions, then it is important that you know where you are ranked for your selected keywords. Finding out where you rank is not as easy as you might think, particularly if you have more than one website. If you only have one then you might be able to track it using manual searches, but if you have more than one site, you might try using one of the available rank finding sites online.

The problem with most of these is that they are not very accurate. They either give you results from the UK i.e. Google.com results rather than google.co.uk, or they use a different hub to draw their results from so you have no proper indication of your precise rankings at any given point.

The problem is worsened by Googles limits on the amount of searches that you can make in an hour. The limit is currently 200 in an hour. This is the same as searching four keywords and looking through the rankings up to rank 500. This will become a big problem if you have several websites with several keywords each.

The answer to these problems would be a piece of software that can automatically search through the results on your desired keywords for your specified site, while staying within Googles search limits. The ideal software will also give you information on you competitors sites, traffic reports for individual keywords, number of backlinks etc.

Most, if not all of the software available online, will not have all of these features, let alone the option to white label it and sell it on as your own. If you are a search engine optimisation company, then your results will define your reputation, and finding software that accurately reports all of the hard work you will have been doing for your clients is a key factor in allowing your them to keep track of those results.

Because your clients wont understand your business as well as you do, you should provide them with up to date information to help them see what you are doing and what you are achieving for them. It is unlikely that your clients will understand the ins and outs of seo and so creating some key performance indicators for them is a good step to take to allow your relationship with them to grow and for them to be comfortable that you are doing all you can to improve their rankings.

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