Rank Ranger Updates

While leaves may still be bursting with colors in the mountains, many of us work in places where the cold, windy rains have caused a dreary naked tree landscape. To counteract the lack of color, the Rank Ranger team harnessed an enormous amount of creative energy and launched an amazing new site that we hope you'll find both attractive and easier to navigate.

Allow me to take you on a little tour...

We are seriously excited about the upcoming November 1st SMX Israel search marketing expo!  The SMX agenda is full of interesting topics and dynamic presenters including our own Joel Janovsky.  In addition to a great presentation, we're hosting an SMX Tweet-a-Thon and participants can qualify for a 10% lifetime discount off Rank Ranger SEO & Marketing Platform plans

This week's massive platform and site update gave the Insight Graph a new user interface and a boost in Google Search metric options with the addition of Event Tracking from Google Analytics search traffic data and a set of AdWords and Search Console KPIs.

We've got some cool API packages that allow Developers to code search data and our SEO and Marketing platform functionality into your applications.  If you're creating custom dashboards, elaborate analytical reports or mobile apps, Rank Ranger's powerful and versatile search APIs provide a great solution for obtaining accurate organic, local, mobile, video and app store search engine data for you to integrate into your application.

We're excited to announce the public beta launch of Rank Ranger Social Analytics! Along with our new website design, you'll now find a Social Dashboard in the Reports gallery containing comprehensive KPI Analytics reports with integrated data from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Google announced at the end of August that their new Search Analytics API  would be replacing the Webmaster Tools data that has been used in your reports. Our Developers have been testing the new Search Analytics API since the beginning of August with plans to release an update before Google deprecated Webmaster Tools, which was reportedly scheduled to happen on October 20th.

Our team quickly responded to an unexpected change in Google's scheduling and over the weekend rolled out of an update that will allow you to integrate the new Search Analytics data into your Rank Ranger account by disconnecting the old Webmaster Tools integration and connecting to the new Search Analytics.  

Google's goal of improving user experience shines through with many of the latest features they've added to search results. Since knowing if your SERP listing includes these special features, we've added 4 new SERP Icons to the Dashboard report: Answer Box, Breadcrumbs, Notable Online and Search Box, in addition to the Events, HTTPS, Local Results, News, Rating, Site Links and Video icons that have been added to your reports during the past year.

We enjoy a challenge and Google served us a good one with the new version of Local Pack results. Learn how you can continue to achieve accurate local rank results.

Receive email notifications of changes in Rank or Traffic and tracked Links status based on the change type, threshold and frequency that you set to trigger alerts.

Google Trends can be a fun and useful tool for determining what's hot and trending in the SERPs now, and also for reviewing what was trending at other points in search history.  A Trends visitor can view interest over time, regional interest and even related searches, but what if you want to work with that data for all the keywords in your SEO and marketing campaigns? Simply access Rank Ranger's Keyword Trends Research report.

Monitor daily rank position for brand-related pages that are ranking in the top 20 search engine results, along with their position distribution, visibility trending, Page 1 coverage and universal results type in our new Brand Visibility report. Discover the actual Top 20 rank results, Top AdWords and Google Related search phrases for your keywords in the SERP Snapshot.

Mobile optimized sites rise higher in SERPs than non-mobile sites when a visitor searches from a mobile device so the Mobile Device Accessibility Test in our On-Page Keyword Optimization Audit has been upgraded to include the key factors in Google's Mobile-Friendly test.