Track Keyword Positions with BLVD Status

BLVD Status is a great free traffic analytics utility allowing for a number of great features, tracking search referrals and keyword positions being one of them. In short, it allows you to:

• Watch search referrals real time;
• Compare current and average search positions;
• See conversions of each search term;
• View all search referrals for any individual page;
• In-depth stats for any of the search term you need to research.

Now, let’s take a brief look at how we can actually do that.

(“Live”) Search Referral Tracking:

BLVD Status offers real time traffic tracking and reports search referrals in a separate window. This window allows to quickly switch between several options as well as set filters:

• View all search engines stats or select one of them (Google, Google Advanced, Google blog search, Yahoo, MSN/Live, Reddit, Ask.com, Comcast);
• View recent or all-time stats.
• [For all-time stats only] Click between AVG and CUR to see average or current search position and compare them.

• [For recent stats only] See the page the person referred by the search listing landed on.

View All Search Referral for Any Page

Accessed via Site URLs -> In Depth, this feature allows to view all or recent search referrals and moreover,

• Hits each referral has sent;
• Each term position in SERPs;
• Conversion of each one.

All in all, quite enough to judge about each word “effectiveness” (e.g. hits versus conversions).

More analytics tools that allow to track keyword positions:

• RankSense (min. $29.95 with 90-day free trial), also see SEJ RankSense review;
• Google Analytics (free): see the detailed guide on how to set up Google Analytics to track rankings.

Further reading on keyword position tracking (via external tools):

• ExactFactor: Track and Compare Your Search Engine Rankings with Ease
• SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings;
• 4 SERP Trackers Reviewed : How to Monitor Your Keyword Rankings.