Check Rank Tracker's new tool for KEI and number of searches and get surprised by other state-of-the-art possibilities.

If you're not new to Rank Tracker, you probably know that earlier it used Overture to get number of searches and help you to pick out the most effective keywords. The poor Overture is dead now, but no regrets — it was old and far toooooooo slow. Now you've got Wordtracker that's rocket-fast compared to Overture. Moreover, it's using another (much more up-to-date!) database.

If you want to be sure you're using the new KEI tool correctly, here's some advice for you:

If you created some projects in Rank Tracker earlier than July 22^nd 2008, then by default you've got Overture set to collect number of searches in those older projects. To start getting KEI and number of searches in them, you need to switch to Wordtracker.

That's easy, just do two things:

1. Update your Rank Tracker to version 4.3 (that's done by a simple restart, or you can always download the newest Rank Tracker from our website).
   
   
2. Go to Preferences > KEI Settings... and find the Getting Number Of Searches section.
   
   Here in the dropdown menu you must select Wordtracker.
   
   
   
   
   

That's it — click OK and run a check with Rank Tracker. You'll be getting KEI quickly.

Note: Overture and Wordtracker have values from different databases, therefore, if you update KEI in an old project where you had old Overture's KEI, don't get surprised or confused by results — new results may differ from old ones.

If you're updating results in an old project, to make the new results reliable, update number of searches and KEI for ALL keywords from an old project.

Wordtracker for keyword suggestion

Wordtracker was also added as a tool to get keyword suggestions. Already now you can use Rank Tracker to quickly get Wordtracker's suggestions for all your keywords (just click the Suggest button in the Keywords tab and choose Wordtracker).


With our own Developer's API key we enable each user to get 15 new Wordtracker's suggestions per keyword. If you wish to get an unlimited number of suggestions from Wordtracker's huge database, you'll need to create a paid Wordtracker account and get a Wordtracker API key.

Find out more about Wordtracker's service and pricing and request a Wordtracker API key. >

Now Some More New Features

1. Support of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
   Now you can work check rankings of websites that have internationalized domains like www.probestück.org or www.café.com.
   
   
2. Tracking rankings of subdomains
   If you choose this option in Project Preferences, then along with the domain, Rank Tracker will also include subdomains when searching for your website's rankings.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Choice between three different rank checking methods
   Today you're getting more opportunities to fine-tune your rank monitoring routine. Select one of the three methods in Preferences > Miscellaneous Settings... > Rank Checking Method, depending on what's known about your site's last ranking, and you'll minimize the number of queries made to search engines.
   
   
   
   
   This saves you time and Internet traffic required to check all keyword rankings. What's more important, properly selected rank checking method can make your rank checks much more search engines-friendly.
   
   And as ever, if you're not sure what to choose, you can just use the default option "Successive Search".
   
   
4. 24 new regional versions of Google search engine
   Now you've got Google for Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Iceland, Taiwan and Venezuela.
   
   
5. Arabic versions of the most popular search engines
   Our Middle East users can now get Yahoo! and MSN results in local Arabic versions of these search engines: Yahoo! Saudi Arabia, Yahoo! United Arab Emirates and MSN Saudi Arabia.
   
   

We hope that you'll enjoy the enhancements of the new Rank Tracker 4.3. And we know our users well — you're always full of ideas how to make our software suit you better. We're impatient to hear from you!

Post on our SEO forums or contact our support staff to discuss Rank Tracker and other SEO tools.

Yours,
Link-Assistant.Com Team