Check rankings - how often?

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PVD2000

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How often do you guys check your rankings? Daily? weekly? monthly?

I find I spend 20-30 mins a day looking at rank trackers, then actually checking the SERPs for some terms to see if they are right on our 10 sites.

Is this a waste of time? Is it counterproductive? Is time better spent elsewhere?

I need someone to convenience me I only need to check once a week and nothing that I can do when rankings change a few places :)
 
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How do you check your rankings
 
It can be addictive once you start doing all of it, I know, been there :D

When you refresh the page every few minutes to see if there is something new.

It depends on how big the site is, if it has some traffic, following what is going on every day, it's ok.

If a site is new or old but with 0 traffic and no value, it's pointless to look for rankings, instead, we should spend our time creating value for viewers that will eventually come one day.
 
KingShizL said:
Its been said there is no way to actually check Google page rankings as Google have scrapped that off
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I'm not talking about page rank........I'm talking about website rankings.....where your pages/keywords rank in google
 
they aren't new sites, few years old and ranking, but I just see it as a waste of time. I just can't stop checking daily.
 
Once in a day seems ideal to keep track of what's going on ^^
20-30 mins seem too much tho even with a big number
 
10 sites with aprox 200 tracked KWs on each takes a bit of time. Maybe 20 mins was excessive.

My point is I'm trying to convince myself that no matter how many times a week I check I don't get any huge benefit from it.
 
if the software / service you are using to track your rankings allows for setting up alerts then create alerts that will.... well, alert you :) of any keywords that go in, or outside of the top 10 rankings. This way you never have to check your rankings again and - more importantly - when such position changes happen for any of your keywords you can inspect those keywords more closely to see why they have gone out of top 10 rankings or why they have gotten into top 10 rankings. This will then allow you to come up with a strategy for consolidating / improving / getting those keywords back into the top 10.

In my opinion this is the smart way to use a rankings tracker

EDIT: I just realized that I didn't try to convince you of the benefits of not having to check your rankings daily, but I can't convince you anyway because I don't know how... I just shared a tip that might allow you to convince YOURSELF that it's pointless to check the rankings daily :)
 
I have alerts set up, I just like to check daily, but it's very counterproductive
 
PVD2000 said:
How often do you guys check your rankings? Daily? weekly? monthly?

I find I spend 20-30 mins a day looking at rank trackers, then actually checking the SERPs for some terms to see if they are right on our 10 sites.

Is this a waste of time? Is it counterproductive? Is time better spent elsewhere?

I need someone to convenience me I only need to check once a week and nothing that I can do when rankings change a few places :)
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i user serpmojo on my android. once a day. good enough for me. track both mine and my competitors. it takes the app about 15 min to come back with a result across 7 or so domains, and 3-4 keywords in each.
 
I'm more trying to say is it counterproductive checking daily. What is achieved other than wasting time. Is once a week enough
 
If it's a new site, you need to check daily to see if your strategy is working. If it's an old site, check weekly and review the changes.
 
PVD2000 said:
How often do you guys check your rankings? Daily? weekly? monthly?

I find I spend 20-30 mins a day looking at rank trackers, then actually checking the SERPs for some terms to see if they are right on our 10 sites.

Is this a waste of time? Is it counterproductive? Is time better spent elsewhere?

I need someone to convenience me I only need to check once a week and nothing that I can do when rankings change a few places :)
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Oh, I know...It is a sickness... but I have detached my dependence and I'm not down to checking just one time a day. Usually in the morning.
 
Other people check instagram and FB all the time, IM people check rankings all the time ;D Its addictive
 
You seem to desperately need someone to convince you not to do it :D

You spend 140 minutes a week to check rankings.
If you've done it once a week (20 minutes) you'd have 2 whole hours to do something more productive.

Now what would that be depends on you. It can be writing a good piece of content, it can be working on creating PBN, or reading BHW.

There is another option to use those 2 hours:
If you do it daily you will either get addicted to it and waste a lot of time or burnout.
Burnout is a scary thing and you will not be as productive once it happens. Take a walk for 20 minutes a day and I promise you it will be the best time spent on this - 20 minutes of fresh air, thinking about your next big idea, off-screen.

Good luck with your SEO campaign, hope it provides results quickly!
 
intiims12 said:
Other people check instagram and FB all the time, IM people check rankings all the time ;D Its addictive
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FinishLine said:
Oh, I know...It is a sickness... but I have detached my dependence and I'm not down to checking just one time a day. Usually in the morning.
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I do check Youtube multiple times a day...does that still count?
 
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