Rank tracking
Definition
What Rank tracking means
Rank tracking runs the same searches again and again, usually daily, and records the position of a domain for each keyword. The series shows the effect of changes to a site, of Google updates, and of competitors, which a single search cannot.
A position only means something with its settings: the country, language, device, and date it was measured in. Trackers fix those per keyword and store them with every reading, and many also record which SERP features appeared, since a knowledge panel or local pack above the results changes how many people click position 1.
Clair's Google Search API returns position on every organic result, counted across pages, with the country and language echoed in query. The Google rank tracking use case walks through a tracker built on it.
In the data
How it appears in a response
GET /v1/search?engine=google_search&q=albert+einstein&country=us&page=1 · results.0.position
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