Rank Ranger Blog

Release of our blended metric Insight Graph rounds out a big year of new features and reports for Rank Ranger's SEO Platform. Are you utilizing all of the time-saving customizable and visually impressive reports and tools we've created for you? What's on your 2015 SEO wishlist?

Imagine having the flexibility to create custom SEO graphs in free-form style - any way you choose. Which features would be included in your ultimate SEO graph creation tool?

New Google Maps and Classic not matching up, Packs reduced from 7 to 3 - the Pigeon has reached most English speaking countries, causing upset in the local SEO world.

In the spirit of the season we began reviewing users' SEO Platform Wishlists (aka our WeDevelop program) last month and chose one that awesomely expands the options to individualize graphs and reports - introducing Report Presets.

Google emphasized several months ago the importance of switching a site to HTTPS for many reasons, including a possible ranking boost. So are they serving links to your HTTPS site in their search results? Check your Rank Tracker Dashboard for a special SERP icon to find out.

Google has indicated that they will now be making continuous updates to the Penguin Algorithm, rather than their current method of making fewer major updates. 

We've heard from SEO agencies responsible for rank tracking of sophisticated sites in the travel, hotel, healthcare, real estate and various franchise industries, that they found the task of reporting keyword rank for one website with hundreds of locations to be very complicated and time consuming - before they discovered Rank Ranger. Our platform provides several simple and time-saving solutions for generating automated reports for businesses with multiple location tracking needs. Here's how...

Google is experimenting with using mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal, so it is now more important than ever to confirm that your site is mobile compatible. Learn more about the requirements and use our On-Page Keyword Optimization tool to improve your landing pages and confirm that a page is eligible for Google's Mobile-friendly label.

The Google Panda Algorithm originally rolled out in February 2011, and has been given a number of refreshes since then. It was rolled out to target link farms and low quality content sites. In this post you are able to follow the history of the algorithm, view more information about it and get tips on ways to recover from Panda related penalties.

The Rank Tracker Dashboard provides a complete overview of your primary domain plus competitor domains, and is rich with options including Rank Change filters, Keyword Metrics, Domain Metrics and Landing Page Metrics including social signals. This video guides you through all the current options offered to help you get the most out of this rank tracking report.

In yesterday's Google Webmaster Hangout, John Mueller confirmed that the Penguin algorithm update is still rolling out. Launched more than 2 weeks ago, it is slowly rolling out to index all sites that have made improvements after being affected by the previous Penguin, and to target new sites that may have been missed in the last update.

Our On-Page Keyword Optimization report has become more comprehensive with the addition of an editable Google SERP Preview tool, Page Speed check and Top 10 keywords.  We've also added Report Options because with the growing number of page analysis tools in this report we realize that not everyone wants to display everything when exporting this report to share with a client.