SEscout - The affiliate marketers SERP tracker. Now live and open for sign-ups!

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The SERP tracker for Affiliate Marketers

SEscout has arrived! If you've been following our progress and simply want to sign-up for the best SERP tracker on the web, head over to our sign-up page, otherwise feel free to read on.

What is SEscout?

SEscout is a SERP (search engine ranking placement) tracker designed to make the job of tracking your rankings in Google easier and more transparent than ever before. SEscout allows you to focus on your SEO efforts while we track your exact position in the rankings and continuously update you of any changes across any and all of your domains and keywords.

An introduction to SEscout

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Notable features

  • Hourly ranking updates for all paid accounts (daily updates for free accounts).
  • Beautiful PDF and email reports White-labeling support for paid accounts.
  • Dynamic (and gorgeous) charting of ranking history over time.
  • Custom email notifications for rankings (Want to know when you hit page 1 for a certain keyword? Setup a notification. SMS notifications are in development.)
  • Push notifications of ranking changes through Notifo. (iPhone and desktop are currently supported, Android and BB are in development).
  • Extremely affordable tiered pricing plans.
  • CSV exports of ranking information.
  • Bulk import large amounts of both keywords and domains.
  • Place domains into more manageable domain groups.
  • View alexa rank of all your domains.
  • View exact global monthly traffic of all your keywords.
  • Tracks up to the 50th page in Google (tracks your keyword up to rank 500).
  • Much more that has yet to be announced
  • For an up-to-the-date list of features check out SEscout features

A brief history of SEscout


It's been nearly 3 months since the first rendition of SEscout was launched to a select few members here on Wickedfire, followed shortly by the beta release here.

Needless to say, SEscout has come a long way since then (big thanks to all the testers along the way). From the testing phase alone, SEscout is currently scraping nearly 2 million google pages on a daily basis. We are extremely excited to announce that we are finally ready to expand our user-base and open sign-ups to everyone here at Wickedfire exclusively (elsewhere at a later date).

We strongly believe that SEscout, in its current state, stands to beat out every competing SERP tracker that already exists. Not only do we top them feature-wise, SEscout is also by far the most affordable option. We could easily tout this as being the final version and unleash it upon the world on auto-pilot, however, we have huge plans to really take SEscout to the next level. This plan starts with an initial launch phase here at Wickedfire, and with enough community support and new subscribers, SEscout can really become everything we envision it being.

SERP tracking is a tricky business, with enough in bandwidth costs alone to rent a nice house. SEscout is opening with a 4 tiered pricing plan, which range from a free version on up to an "unlimited everything" plan. Our hope is that most users will eventually adopt one of our paid plans, which will enable us to push full-steam ahead on ground-breaking new features that no competing SERP tracker has yet to even dream up.

Our Mission

We can't stress enough that we honestly believe SEscout is already the best SERP tracker on the planet. With hourly updates, ranking notifications of all changes, PDF and email reports, ranking charts, and extremely affordable plans, SEscout is already chalk-full of features. However, without the support of awesome communities such as the one here at Wickedfire, we honestly wouldn't stand the chance of ever expanding upon what we currently have.

So please, if your ready to be a part of the best SERP tracker ever created, head over to the SEscout sign-up page and make an account today. We encourage you to take a look through our Demo and to also create a free account of your own. If you like what you see, support us as well as the community and go paid. If not, feel free to come back here and let us know why. It's our mission to make an SEscout subscription a no-brainer for any and all serious webmasters and affiliate marketers.


Upcoming Affiliate program (we know you're wondering)

Being an affiliate marketing forum, and considering the fact that SEscout was designed for affiliate marketers, you're probably wondering whether we have an affiliate program or not. Plans are in the works to create one of the best paying and respected affiliate programs around. From partnerships with existing SEO service providers to established blog owners, we plan on offering an affiliate program for many different supporters of SEscout.

Initially, however, the SEscout affiliate program will be offered to early adopters of our paid plans that have supported us from the beginning. Plain and simple, the SEscout affiliate program will only be offered to notable supporters of the SEscout brand, not just anyone will be able to market our services. Details are slim at the moment, but there will most definitely be more talk of this in the very near future.

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DO not BUY THIS SERVICE!

I've been using it for a few months and it's so horrible that I am now lost with what to do with my spare time now that I don't have to spend a day updating the ranking reports in Market Samurai for each domain. :p

But seriously, it's worth the monthly price and I look forward to all the future updates in the queue.
 
Yup. I am using this service for past 2 months also and I really like it. In fact it's become part of my daily routine. Check e-mail, check SEscout. I check it all the time. I am tracking many of my sites and keywords there. It's prety easy to add new sites/keywords there.
Backlinkgurus is awsome guy, listens to the pulse of the public. I really like the feature that it tracks top 500 positions because I can very easy see where each sites rank. For example some similar product I've been using checks only top 50 results and thats a problematic because at first I have many websites ranking all over so it's good to see which method help you jump how many places etc. Anyway incredible rank tracker. Anywone depending on SEO and Google traffic must use this service.
 
Is there any danger in using a SERP tracker like this one?

Users are basically giving the owners of such a service full access to a list of all their #1 sites along with the keywords and traffic volume. I'm not experienced enough to know if that data could be abused or not (if it fell into unscrupulous hands) but it seems possible that it could be? Like you're paying someone a monthly fee to 'out' all your own successful campaigns and landers to them!?
 
Chianti said:
Is there any danger in using a SERP tracker like this one?

Users are basically giving the owners of such a service full access to a list of all their #1 sites along with the keywords and traffic volume. I'm not experienced enough to know if that data could be abused or not (if it fell into unscrupulous hands) but it seems possible that it could be? Like you're paying someone a monthly fee to 'out' all your own successful campaigns and landers to them!?
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I figured this question would arise at some point. At guess it's really no different then paying someone here at wickedfire to build backlinks for you and giving them your domain and keyword information. It's somewhat of a "security through obscurity" type of argument. With the vast amount of keywords being tracked through the system, every keyword is essentially a drop of water in an ocean. It would be no different then taking a massive list of words and picking one out of a hat and hoping for the best.

As far as someone 'outing' their successful campaigns and landers, in no way do rankings reflect profits of any sort. Regardless of what keywords a specific domain may rank well for, it would in no way be in our best interest to try and duplicate any of it. Someone might rank first for a high trafficked term, but it doesn't mean that they, or any other competitor in that niche, are making a dime.

Considering that tracking SERP's is our business, it would be foolish for us to use the data towards anything that might negatively affect our customers.
 
I was one of the initial beta testers. I signed up with one domain and 8 keywords. At the time it was nice but it didn't fit my needs (for clients) and last I heard that wasn't high on the list of priorities so I kinda forgot about it. I randomly signed into today (before seeing this thread even) and was shocked.

Massive Improvements

This is better than Market Samurai's tracking for sure and is pretty much at par with Authority Labs now with regards to disturbing the reports in a professional manner (would still like the url links,)

If you you take into account the fact that it's so much cheaper than Authority Labs, then It's a done deal.

I'm really impressed.

edit: one more thing that I find equally or more impressive is that this guy listened to the feedback and adapted to it. So many coders fail because of their own egos and ideas of how they want their product/service to be. Again I dropped out of that initial thread but as far as i can see stuff like the extension of 100 to 500 keywords, the pdf reports, the email alerts...etc were all things that were demanded and he supplied. If he keeps doing this he will succeed.
 
turbolapp said:
I was one of the initial beta testers. I signed up with one domain and 8 keywords. At the time it was nice but it didn't fit my needs (for clients) and last I heard that wasn't high on the list of priorities so I kinda forgot about it. I randomly signed into today (before seeing this thread even) and was shocked.

Massive Improvements

This is better than Market Samurai's tracking for sure and is pretty much at par with Authority Labs now with regards to disturbing the reports in a professional manner (would still like the url links,)

If you you take into account the fact that it's so much cheaper than Authority Labs, then It's a done deal.

I'm really impressed.

edit: one more thing that I find equally or more impressive is that this guy listened to the feedback and adapted to it. So many coders fail because of their own egos and ideas of how they want their product/service to be. Again I dropped out of that initial thread but as far as i can see stuff like the extension of 100 to 500 keywords, the pdf reports, the email alerts...etc were all things that were demanded and he supplied. If he keeps doing this he will succeed.
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Thanks for chiming in, your review is much appreciated ;]
 
I really appreciate all the work that has gone into SEscout. The one issue that seems to be ignored is that the ranking positions shown differ substantially from those obtained by manual search. I was told that this might be a result of SEscout pulling 100 positions per page and Google showing for this option multiple inner pages that are not displayed in 10 result pages. Some of my keywords show only a few positions difference and others more than 10 or 15. So for me using SEscout just gives me a guess and not correct results that I (or my clients) would expect. The response to my bug report was essentially that the differences didn't matter much. Please crosscheck your results manually and see if you encounter the same issues, then share your findings.
 
Google has a lot of different datacenters. Each location has access to a certain number of them. Each search query has a chance to pull from a different datacenter in that certain number related to your location.

Since each datacenter has its own spiders and not all datacenters share the same rankings because of this - Google will sync the centers every couple of weeks to have a similar "floor"/"baseline" to work from while their spiders continue to index more.

At any given time, you could be seeing different data because of this. That's why you see your rankings hop from number to number every couple of hours and why you may see different rankings than what's showing in SEscout.
 
Rexibit,
no it's not that. I have keywords that rank within 2-3 positions over a month time, and that may be due to different data center results. But SEscout shows continuously 6-15 positions different.
 
magix said:
Rexibit,
no it's not that. I have keywords that rank within 2-3 positions over a month time, and that may be due to different data center results. But SEscout shows continuously 6-15 positions different.
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This is actually based upon a recent google algorithmic change. Certain searches are now showing multiple results for the same site, but listing them as actual organic positions. Site "example.com" might show up for 1st, 2nd and 3rd for search "example" rather than one result with a "more from example.com" drop-down box.

While the large majority of searches remain unaffected (it's entirely based upon your search query), there are a small amount of searches that change positions based upon whether you are looking at 10 or 100 results for that specific search.

We are currently looking into the issue and will likely add a modifier that you can turn on or off based on the domain / keyword in question that would ignore multiple results from the same site and give the actual position based on a 10 result search.

As for now, the large majority of users remain unaffected and shouldn't have any discrepancies (outside of the usual data-center changes) for any of their rankings.
 
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