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Rank Ranger's Data Studio Integration

Learn how to integrate Rank Ranger rank data into Google Data Studio .

Google Data Studio is a free dashboard reporting tool and with Rank Ranger's data connector you can choose from a variety of rank metrics you’d like to display in reports and easily share with other internal stakeholders or agency clients.

Requirements:

Rank Ranger account with reporting platform package and API Key. If you don't have an account, start a free trial and either add a package that has API included or complete the custom package request form with API included.
Google account
Rank Ranger Rank Tracking Data Studio Connector

Rank Ranger customer support is able to assist you only with our data and APIs, if you need assistance with creation of Data Studio reports beyond our template and the instructions in this documentation, please contact the Google Data Studio Support team.

Data Studio report with Rank Ranger data

Report Templates

To help you get started using Rank Ranger data in Data Studio reports, we have created a multiple page template with these layouts. You may delete any of the pages that you don't wish to use.

Welcome Page
Click on any element on this page to add your branding and change the text, or hover over the page name (e.g. 1. Howdy!), click the 3 dots and select Remove to delete the page.

Rank Overview
Rank position widgets with percentage of change, keyword table and position distribution graph

Rank Ranger Data Studio template Overview

Daily Rank Stats
Rank Position widgets with percentage of change, and a table of top ranked keywords and landing pages

Rank Ranger Data Studio template daily rank stats

Search Engine Performance Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of the average rank, rank distribution, and top ranking keywords and landing pages on 2 search engines

Rank Position Stats
Colorful rank position widgets with rank change percentage, position distribution graph, keyword rankings table with landing page and search volume.

Rank Position Stats (dark theme)
With a simple change of Current Theme from "Custom" to "Simple Dark" in the Layout and Theme settings, the above report can be set to display like this:

Metrics

The Rank Tracking connector provides access to the following metrics per campaign:

Rank
Positions 1-3
Positions 4-10
Positions 1-10
Positions 11-20
Positions 21-30
Positions 31-50
Positions 51-100
Date
Domain
Landing Page URL
Keyword
Search Engine URL
Search Engine Name
Search Volume

Getting Started

Gather the following information from your Rank Ranger account:

API Key: open Account >Connections > API & Connected Apps and copy an API key (refer to How to Generate API Keys for instructions)
Campaign ID: run the Get All Campaigns in a Package API to obtain the Campaign ID
Search Engine ID: download the Search Engines list and locate the ID of the search engine associated with the campaign
Domain (e.g., amazon.com)

Integrate with Connector

Access the Rank Ranger Rank Tracking connector
Change "Untitled Data Source" to a name that is descriptive of the campaign or site the data is for
Click the Authorize button

Verification Warning
You may receive a warning message about the connector not being verified yet. Because customers are in a rush to use this and Google's verification process takes time, we decided to release the connector while waiting for them to approve publication in their gallery. If you want to proceed and use the connector while we're awaiting Google's verification process, then click the "Advanced" link and then click the "Go to Rank Ranger Rank Tracking Connector (unsafe)" link.

Click the Advanced link

Click the Go to Rank Ranger Rank Tracking Connector (unsafe) link

Password
Enter the password associated with the email address and click the Next button

Review and accept terms
Click the Allow button

API Key
Enter your Rank Ranger API key and click the Submit button
Refer to this documentation if you need help locating your API key

Campaign Settings

Enter Campaign ID, Search Engine ID and domain name
By default the "use report template for new reports" option is checked, if you don't want to use our template, then you should uncheck that option
Click the Connect button

Data Available for Report
This screen displays the data fields that are available to be used in a Data Studio report.

If you want to change the name of any of the fields, click into the field and type the name you want to use.
Click the Create Report button

Authorization
Google notifies you that you're about to create a new report using the selected data source, click the Create Report button to proceed.

Welcome Page

You may choose to brand and edit, or remove this page
You can toggle between Edit and View modes with a button in the upper right of the report

Navigate, Rename or Remove Pages

Click the arrows to navigate through pages or click the Page field and select a page from the menu
Click into the page field and hover over the 3 dots to select Rename or Remove pages

Make a Copy
If you want additional copies of the report saved to your Data Studio account, select File > Make a copy...

If you need assistance with Data Studio's tools, please click their ? help icon in the upper right of the screen and search for instructions.

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