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Shoutout to the way I track keywords now (vs. last year's mess)
I used to keep all my keyword rankings in a Google Sheet and manually update it every Monday morning. Took me about 45 minutes per client and I kept forgetting to log in on holidays. (My New Year's resolution to be more disciplined lasted exactly 2 weeks.) Then I tried a free rank tracker tool in January that emails me the data every Sunday night. Now I just copy-paste it into a dashboard in about 10 minutes flat. Has anyone else found a faster way to track rankings without paying $50 a month?
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wells.evan3mo ago
Oh man, I feel this so hard. I used to do the exact same thing with a Google Sheet and it was just soul-crushing every Monday... especially when I'd forget to pull the data before a holiday weekend and then have to piece together two weeks of rankings. What finally clicked for me was setting up a simple python script that scrapes the free Google Search Console API and dumps it into a Google Data Studio dashboard I built once. It takes maybe 5 minutes to refresh now and the initial setup was just a weekend afternoon of watching YouTube tutorials. Definitely not the most technical solution but it works for my small client list and I haven't paid a dime for tracking in two years.
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rowanw913mo ago
Wait two years with zero cost? That's actually wild dude. Five minutes to refresh everything and you haven't paid a single cent the whole time. Meanwhile I'm out here paying 30 bucks a month for some basic rank tracker that still glitches out half the time. The holiday weekend thing hits way too close to home too, I had to reconstruct three weeks of data last summer because I took a spontaneous trip and forgot about everything. Really makes me question all these recurring charges I've been letting slide, especially with how simple you made that sound.
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wadejenkins3mo ago
I'd be careful with that python script though, one update breaks it and you're back to square one.
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