Google Keyword Ranking Tool FAQ

General Questions
- What is the Google Keyword Ranking Tool?
- What is Google?
- What is a Keyword?
- What is a Keyword Ranking?
- What does the Keyword Ranking Tool Track?
- How much does it cost to use?
- How many Keywords can I track?

Signing Up
- What is a DevStart account?

Adding Keywords
- How can I add a single keyword?
- How can I add several keywords?
- How do I know which keywords are the most important?
- How do I check the ranking of my site in certain keywords?
- How do I check for all of the keywords?

Analyzing Results
- How do I check the ranking of my sites?
- Can I sort by URLs?
- What is the significance of a particular keyword?
- How can I track changes in ranking over time?
- What can I do to improve my keyword ranking?

Advanced Features

Other Questions
- Can I track Keyword Ranking on other search engines?

General Questions
Q: What is the Google Keyword Ranking Tool?
A: The Keyword Ranking Tool is a tool which allows you to track the keyword rank for any of the inserted by you keywords at Google for a chosen domain.

Q: What is Google?
A: Google is one of the most popular search engines. The company's founders developed a new approach to online searches that led eventually to the creation of the world's largest search engine. The company's name is a derivation of the mathematical term "Googol", meaning 1 followed by 100 zeros.


Q: What is a Keyword?
A: A keyword is a word reflecting the basic content concept of a web page. Search engines use the keywords to identify the similarities in the web content and to select the sites by density of the keyword used in the web content and the meta tags. For example "promotion" is a keyword used widely in www.promotionworld.com . If you perform this search in Google, in the bar in the Google SERP you will find the number of competitive pages for this keyword. The aim of the search engine optimization is to make the site better positioned, so that by keyword searches it to be easily found.

Q: What is a Keyword Ranking?
A: A keyword ranking is the relevance of your site according to a given search engine for certain keywords. The better your site is positioned in the search engines, the better your site's keyword ranking is.

Q: What does the Keyword Ranking Tool Track?
A: The Keyword Ranking Tool monitors your site's keyword positions. The data received from the searches you inquire, contains information about your keyword positioning by URL and keyword. All the information is stored in your account and you can easily get history of your results. The results are presented in the search result table as numbers of the positions and by graphs, accessible by clicking on the graph icon for every keyword row.

Q: How much does it cost to use?
A: Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. All tools are FREE to use. You only need a DevStart account.

Q: How many Keywords can I track?
A: Lots. You can track as many keywords as you need. The keyword number is unlimited.


Signing Up
Q: What is a DevStart account?
A: A DevStart account is a simple, FREE account that gives you access to all of the great tools on PromotionWorld and the rest of the DevStart Network. All you need to create an account is an e-mail address and password.


Adding Keywords
Q: How can I add a single keyword?
A: To add a single keyword you can use two simple approaches. The first is to select a keyword from the suggest keyword tool and click on insert. The other way is to type or paste the keyword in the keyword field in the tool form.

Q: How can I add several keywords?
A: To add several keywords, you can choose to use the keyword suggestion tool. This way you will be able to find easily which are the most searched keywords. After you select the keywords you need, click on "import" button to import your data in the table.

Q: How do I know which keywords are the most important?
A: To identify the importance of the keyword, you can use the keyword selection tool. Here you can type the keyword by your choice and to see the search results in numbers for the keyword phrases. The more searches it has, the more important is the keyword.

Q: How do I check the ranking of my site in certain keywords?
A: First you need to do is to insert the keywords and the site's URL in the tool fields. You can select a multitask option by selecting all the keywords, clicking on the button on the right bottom of the search table of the Keyword Ranking Tool. After that you need to click on the red indicator refresh to see the results for the selected keywords.

Q: How do I check for all of the keywords?
A: It is easy. The Keyword Ranking Tool provides an option for you to select all the keywords by clicking on the "Check All" button in the right bottom end of the table.


Analyzing Results
Q: How do I check the ranking of my sites?
A: The site rank can be checked up using Google PageRank tool. All you need to do is to insert the site's URL into the form.

Q: Can I sort by URLs?
A: Yes, you can sort your results by URLs, using the dropdown select menu in the upper right end of the table in the Keyword Rank Monitoring tool.

Q: What is the significance of a particular keyword?
A: The significance of a particular keyword you can follow by looking at the number in the next to the keyword's column on the same row.

Q: How can I track changes in ranking over time?
A: Your data are stored and to track the changes is easy. The tool provides two options. You can select the header of the search table and click on the needed selection results. This will give you the daily, weekly and monthly changes results by keyword. You can also see the tracking history in graphical view by clicking on the graph icon in the beginning of the keyword row in the table.

Q: What can I do to improve my keyword ranking?
A: Your keyword ranking can be improved by search engine optimization. To learn more how you can improve your keyword ranking, you can read from our Google Tutorial here.


Advanced Features

Other Questions
Q: Can I track Keyword Ranking on other search engines?
A: Yes, you can now track keyword ranking on Microsoft's MSN Search.