How many times have you searched for the keyword you're competing for just to see your ranking, scrolling and scrolling without finding it?!

Sometimes you keep scrolling until you reach the third or fourth page, spending a lot of time doing it.

There's an easier way that saves you a lot of time. In this article, I've put together a list of the best tools to help you check your site's Google ranking in seconds!

The Importance of Tracking and Monitoring Your Ranking

We work regularly on improving website rankings in search results and continuously publish articles and pages, but we always end up asking: where do we stand!

One of the most important things that determines whether you're doing things right is knowing your site's ranking on Google. Through this, you'll be more aware of your site's standing in search results compared to competitors, and identify why your site isn't showing up well in search engines, and look for gaps on your site that are delaying you from getting a great ranking.

Tools to Check Your Site's Google Ranking

Every task has tools that can help you get it done, and each tool has what makes it stand out from the others.

So you need to know all the tools, then choose the one that best fits your needs. The most important tools to help you check your site's Google ranking are as follows:

  1. Semrush

Semrush is one of the best SEO tools, thanks to its ease of use and accuracy in determining your site's Google ranking. It's one of the tools I rely on most when doing SEO for new websites, given how many uses it has.

It's a paid tool, but you can create a free account with no time limit, though it's limited in usage — the free version only lets you track the ranking of up to 10 keywords.

Key Features of Semrush:

How to Use It:

  1. Create an account through the following link.
  2. Add a project (site).
  3. Enter the site's URL and name.
  4. A table will appear offering several features, including Position Tracking.
  5. Click Set up in the Position Tracking row.
  6. Choose the search engine (Google or Baidu) and the device (Desktop – Mobile – Tablet).
  7. Enter the target country or region.
  8. Enter the site name (optional).
  9. Then click Keywords, add the keywords whose ranking you want to check, and click Start Tracking.

  1. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is one of the most widely used SEO tools, offering more than one feature that sets it apart from other tools.

You can't sign up for a free account on Ahrefs, but the tool has a dedicated section for free tools, and luckily the tool that helps you check your site's Google ranking (Keyword Rank Checker) is among the free tools!

This lets you check your site's ranking without creating an account.

How to Use It.

  1. Go to the following link:
  2. Select the Keyword Rank Checker tool.
  3. Add the keyword whose ranking you want to check.
  4. Enter the URL of the page targeting that keyword.
  5. Then select the target country.
  6. Finally, your site's Google ranking for that keyword will appear!

Advantages of Using Ahrefs

  1. Fast results for checking your keyword's ranking.
  2. No need to create an account.
  3. It gives you an analysis of the top 3 results for the target keyword, which sets it apart from other tools.

  1. SERPRobot

SERPRobot is one of the tools known for being easy to use with a simple interface, and it's one of the good free tools.

How to Use It:

  1. Select the target country.
  2. Then choose the device type (Desktop – Mobile – Tablet).
  3. Then enter your site's domain.
  4. Then add the keywords you want to check your Google ranking for — this tool lets you add more than one keyword at a time.

  1. Google Search Console

Google Search Console is indispensable for any website — it's one of the SEO basics given its importance in determining a site's standing in Google's search results.

Google Search Console has many uses, including telling you your site's Google ranking, with rankings broken down by every country your pages appear in.

How to Use It:

  1. First, open Google Search Console.
  2. Second, open the Performance report.
  3. Then click New and select Query.
  4. Add the search keyword and click Apply.
  5. The results for that keyword on your site will appear.
  6. Click Average position to determine your site's ranking for the keyword.
  7. Scroll down and you'll find the ranking number next to each keyword.
  8. Click Countries to see your ranking in the target country.

  1. MozPro

MozPro is one of the oldest SEO tools and is still relied on for many SEO tasks.

It's a tool with more than one use, including MozCast, which tracks the daily impact of Google's algorithms on site rankings in search results.

The tool is excellent at determining site rankings in search engines, but it isn't free — you can only use it by creating an account.

There's a free trial, but you have to enter your payment card details to use the account.

  1. SmallSEOTools

This is one of the standout free tools, offering several essential features for improving your Google ranking, whether for technical tasks or content tasks.

Among the tool's advantages: it's easy to use, lets you specify which device to check the ranking on (Desktop – Mobile), and choose from more than one country.

How to Use It

Go to the following link:
  1. Add the URL of the page whose Google ranking you want to check.
  2. Select the country.
  3. Select the device.
  4. Type in the keywords.
  5. Add competitors (optional).
  6. Click Check Keyword Position, and the results will appear.

  7. SE Ranking

SE Ranking is an excellent tool that lets you check your site's Google ranking with ease!

It's a paid tool, but you can create a free account without adding any payment cards — though it will be a time-limited account, since it only works for free for 14 days.

This tool tells you your site's ranking for the target keywords you already know and want to track, but what if your site ranks for other keywords you don't know about?

This happens often, and it happens to everyone regularly. We'll tell you about the tools that help you find that out in the following lines.

Advantages of This Tool.

How to Use It:

  1. Create an account — you can sign up with a Google account.
  2. Add your site's URL and name (Project name)
  3. Add the keywords whose ranking you want to check
  4. Select the search engine and then the target country
  5. Add competitors (optional)
  6. Connect Google Search Console and Google Analytics (optional)

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You can check your site's Google ranking manually, without using any tool. This takes some time, but it's one of the most accurate methods. Before starting this method, you should first use your browser's private mode. You can use your browser's private mode by clicking the menu and then selecting New Incognito Window.

We do this because it makes the search more accurate than regular browsing, since the search happens without cookies, and you'll notice a significant change in your search results.

Discovering Keywords You Didn't Know You Were Ranking For

We're often surprised daily by visitors to our sites coming from keywords we never even targeted!

This happens because we've covered topics on our pages that visitors search for beyond the target keyword, and also because while we may have been targeting a long-tail keyword, over time we may start ranking for the shorter version of it too — and that's excellent!

But we need to track these keywords to better understand our visitors' behavior, and then focus on the topics they're searching for the most.

In addition, you can use these tools to analyze competitors — by entering a competitor's URL, you'll discover the most important keywords they're ranking for, giving you better insight into their strategy.

Below, we show you the most important of these tools:

  1. Sitechecker

This is an excellent tool with a different use — it lets you discover the keywords your site ranks well for on Google just by entering your domain.

It's a paid tool, but you can create a free account for 7 days.

How to Use It

  1. Sign up through this link:
  2. Add the domain whose keyword rankings on Google you want to check.
  3. The most important keywords you rank well for in various countries will appear.

  1. The Hoth

This is one of the good tools for determining your search engine ranking — just add your site's domain, and it tells you the most important keywords you rank well for.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work well for determining rankings for Arabic keywords, but it's excellent for English keywords, and it also tells you the top 100 keywords your site ranks for, which is a very good number.

How to Use It

Go to the following link:
  1. Enter your site's domain
  2. Click View Google Rankings

  1. UBERSUGGEST

UBERSUGGEST is one of the excellent tools for this task — it lets you clearly identify the most important keywords you rank for (Arabic and English), and you can use it to analyze an entire site or a specific page on your site

You can use it for free, but usage is limited, as it only tells you the top 10 keywords.

How to Use It

  1. Go to the following link:
  2. Add the URL you want to analyze
  3. Select the target countries
  4. Click Search
  5. It will show you the most important keywords you rank for in search engines.

Discovering the Keywords That Bring You Visitors

Knowing your site's Google ranking is important, but knowing the keywords that bring you the most visitors is no less important.

Knowing them gives you better insight into your visitors' behavior on search engines and helps you understand the terms they typically search for. Once you know these keywords, you should focus on them to get more and more visitors. The best tool for finding this out is GOOGLE SEARCH CONSOLE.

This is the best and most accurate tool for telling you the keywords that bring the most visitors to your site, in addition to identifying which page on your site brings you the most visitors.

How to Use It

  1. Open GOOGLE SEARCH CONSOLE
  2. Go to the Performance report
  3. Scroll down and click Queries if you want to know the keywords driving the most visits.
  4. Or click Pages if you want to know which pages bring you the most visits.
Some people think SEO work ends once an article or page is published, but that's really just the beginning — we need to keep tracking pages' rankings and performance in search results, and always look for ways to improve keyword targeting. I hope this article was helpful, and I look forward to your comments or questions so I can respond.

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