SEO Watcher is our original Drupal module that searches specified keywords with major search engines and checks the rank of your site and competitive sites once a day and creates the reports.
Feasures
- Target major search engines are google.com, yahoo.com and bing.com.
- You can specify up to 5 keywords (or key phrases)
- You can specify up to 5 competitive sites to check their rankings as well as your site.
- Rankings of your sites are stored to the database for one year, and you can see the past rankings with nice line charts.
- Admin can receive the result of the daily ranking check via an email.
- Checking is performed automatically once a day during the cron task execution.
There are tools and online services which can do the same or similar things. However, this module integrates the functionality directly to Drupal. Once you install and set up the module, everything is done automatically on daily basis. All you need to do is check email reports everyday. It couldn't be easier.
Result Reports
Check result is shown in nice tables at Administor > Reports > SEO Watcher page. The ranking of your site is shown first, followed by the competitive analysis reports.
The past ranking of your site is shown in line charts.
When you enable the option to send an email of check result to admin every day, a HTML mail like below will be sent. It has similar tables and hyper links to the report page, search engine page and competitive sites.
Settings
You need to specify at least one keyword. SEO Watcher does nothing if no keywords are specified. Competitive analysis is an option. If you add your competitors, please specify their absolute URL starting with http://.Please try to make the maximum search rank as small as possible since it may give an direct impact on the time required to complete the ranking check, as well as the number of keywords.
When you check the last check box (see above), the temporary ranking check is performed with the update settings upon saving the settings.
This may be useful when you determine the best keywords and competitive sites by trying it repeatedly. The result of this temporary ranking check is not stored anywhere. Only the ranking check performed during the cron operation is stored to the database. This ranking check will not be performed more than once a day even if your site runs cron job more frequently.
Technical notes
Major search engine companies usually offer API (Application Programing Interface) for external software/web sites to use their search engine and search results. Ideally, using such API is the best way to achieve the goal of this module. However, there are certain restrictions and limitations of using of such API, and I was not sure if the software like this module can legally use such APIs or not. I wanted to avoid the worst case where the user of this module have their server's IP-address banned by search engines due to improper usage of their API. Therefore, this module intentionally avoid using such APIs. So this module just sends the reqular search query to search engines just like manually using search engines. So please do not ask us why this module does not use such APIs.Important Note and Disclaimers
This module sends search query to search engines for each keywords and get the result up until the maximum search rank just like you do manually with web browser. Therefore, it's a time consuming task and may take a few minutes or even longer depending on the number of keywords and maximum search rank. Logically, if you increase the number of keywords from one to three, the ranking check process may takes three times longer than now. That's the reason why we are asking you to try to minimize such factors as possible as you can. Besides, number of competitors sites does not have such dramatic impact on the time required because it does not increase the amount of data receives from search engines.Anyway, to avoid worst cases I mentioned earlier, please do not modify this module to increase the number of keywords and/or maximum search rank. This would increase a risk of such worst cases. I think it would be OK to run the ranking check once a day with this kind of limited volume of search query. But please use this module at your own risk, and PIXTURE STUDIO is not responsible for any direct/indirect damages caused by the use of this module.
Download
The latest version of SEO Watcher is always available at the project page of drupal.org.SEO Watcher
http://drupal.org/project/seowatcher