A reader asked me serveral months ago if I knew of software to track local search standings. Advanced Web Ranking had just implemented the feature (after a year of hounding) and I told the reader about it with a caution that I had not yet tried it.
He just took the time to email his comments:
It’s been a while, but I’m the person who wrote you asking if you knew of a good local seo tracking software option.  You recommended Advanced Web Ranking.  I wanted to let you know that their software is working great!  When I first tested it, the local search tracking had some bugs and did not report the ranks correctly. They have fixed those issues though and the software works great to get results from Google Maps and Yahoo Local Business.  They do not yet have local search tracking for Live (MSN) or Ask, but said they plan to add those as some point.
I subsequently have used the feature and it has become quite useful for automated tracking. The software works on Mac, Windows or Linux and pricing starts at $99.
Are there other products that will automatically track local search standings?
That is a nice feature. What else does it do?
If I have to track lots and lots of sites, it has merit at a cost. If its only a couple of sites, one can track that manually.
Comment by earlpearl (686 comments) — May 8, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Its a full blown tracking tool for an unlimited number of sites, engines and keywords…here is a feature set.
Mike
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (1085 comments) — May 8, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
That is awesome that someone finally made someone, we got so tired of checking rankings manually we just made our own application.
Comment by Steve Espinosa (14 comments) — May 9, 2008 @ 2:33 am