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Core Data Tracking



The Core Data Tracking is a basic subscription created to simplify SEO reporting with a specified location for each keyword.
Once the subscription is set the following steps need to be taken to get started:
  • Create a new campaign 
  • Import/add keywords with a corresponding Search Engine and location

Reports Included in the Core subscription:
  • Rank Insights
  • Keyword Date Comparison
  • SEO Monitor
  • Share of Voice

Disclaimer: The Core subscription's reports are different than those under other subscriptions. The documentation dedicated to the Core plan reports is listed at the end of this page.

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General Settings

 
Enter a Campaign Name, Website Address and select Ranking System Count

new Campaign General Settings


1. The Campaign Name displays in reports so that it should be descriptive of the web property.

2. The Website Address needs to be entered based on the type of Tracking Mode you select:
  • If you want rankings for the full site, then enter the domain name and extension only (e.g., your-site.com)
  • If you want rankings only for a sub-domain, then enter the sub-domain address (e.g., members.your-site.com)
  • If you only want to track rankings for a specific sub-directory, then enter the domain and sub-directory (e.g., your-site.com/products/*)
  • If you only want to track rankings for a specific web page, then enter the full URL (e.g., your-site.com/your-page.html). For this type of tracking, you must select the Exact URL Ranking System Count.

3. Select a Tracking Mode
  • Default (applies to Domains or sub-domains)
    This setting instructs RangerBot to count rank positions exactly as is when checking your rankings in search engine results.  Select this if you want to monitor rank for all pages in a domain (e.g., yoursite.com/*) or a sub-domain (e.g., *.yoursite.com/*) of the site.
  • Explicit Domain Count (applies to Domains or sub-domains)
    When checking your rankings this option instructs RangerBot to ignore duplicate domains in search engine results. (More information and examples). Select this if you want to monitor rank for all pages in a domain (e.g., yoursite.com/*) or a sub-domain (e.g., *.yoursite.com/*) of the site.
  • Exact URL Ranking (applies to Sub-Directory or a Specific Page)
    Monitoring Exact URL rankings means that you are interested in tracking the rank of a specific landing page or website sub-directory (e.g., your-site.com/products/*).  When you choose this option RangerBot reports the results only if the exact URL matches the search engine result.

    Exact URL Ranking can be used when you want to monitor:
    • sub-directories (e.g., http://your-site.com/subdirectory)
    • specific landing pages (e.g., http://yoursite.com/yourpage.html)
    • YouTube channel pages or individual videos (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/channel/brand-name or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZcw2D-LaQ)
    • An App in the Google Play Store or Apple iTunes store (e.g., https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rankranger.ranktracker)
    Please note that you will only be able to insert a specific URL for your campaign if you have selected this option. If you select one of the other tracking mode options then any sub-directory and/or landing page entered will be stripped and only the domain name (e.g., your-site.com) will be used for ranking.

    select Ranking System Count



    4. Advanced Settings
    are needed if:
    • If you have more than one package in your account, you must select the package you want the new campaign added to before clicking the Save button.
    • You want to add a Profile, Industry, or Reference ID to a campaign for filtering report data and for single sign-on to the Client Dashboards.
    • You want to connect a campaign to Google Drive for report export and file attachment to links.
    • You want to delete or archive (archive available for Enterprise packages only) a campaign.
    Refer to General Settings documentation for more detailed instructions.



Keywords and Search Engine

 
Add Keywords and Search Engines to Campaign

Add keywords
  • Add Keywords in the list (one keyword per line)
  • Add Tag(s) (Optional)
  • Select Country
  • Select Search Engine
  • Enter a Location (Optional. Specify only if the keyword should be tracked based on a specific location)
  • Click the Add Keywords button 

The list of keywords will be added to the table below and will be crawled the day the keywords were entered and the Search Volume will display once the data is available. The Frequency is 7 days from the last scan date. More tags could be added to the keyword table. 

Location format: City, State OR Postal Code
For example, if you have selected:
  • Google.com, then enter Miami, FL or 90210, USA
  • Google.co.uk, then enter London or WC1N
  • Google.nl, then enter Amsterdam or 1012NX

Bulk Import/Export

Bulk Export
Bulk Export button at the end of the Keyword List screen will export all available keywords in the list.

Bulk Import
Another way to add keywords is using a Bulk option at the bottom of the screen:

Add keywords in bulk

Download a sample file with available fields:
  • keyword
  • tags (Optional)
  • se_id (Search Engine list)
  • location (Optional) The location format is listed above
  • keyword_identifier (Optional. Is used to add your own unique keyword identifier (limited to 50 alpha-numeric characters))

  • Populating Keywords into Excel
Populate the table with the requested data and upload the file.
Deleting Keywords
Keywords can be deleted individually by clicking X for the keyword listed in the table:

Delete Keywords

In order to delete the keywords in bulk:
  • Select all required keywords from the table by clicking on the checkbox located on the first column in the table
  • Scroll down to the Bulk Options for Selected Keywords and click Delete
Delete Keywords bulk

Rank Insights

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Keyword Date Comparison

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SEO Monitor

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Share of Voice

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