The organic rank tracker that checks daily — in every city you serve.
The Organic Tracker runs Google searches for your keywords in each target city on a recurring cadence and writes the result to a trend chart you can read at a glance. Stop checking ranks by hand every month — monitor your organic rank daily, with your competitors on the same chart.
Need to see how rank varies street-by-street? Check out the Maps Grid Scanner →
A real report in the dashboard — toggle keywords, compare competitors, download the branded PDF.
How it works
Set it once. Trends fill in on cadence. Read the chart on Monday.
Pick a keyword and a city
Choose any tracked keyword on a location and tell us which city to check it from. Add as many keyword × city pairs as your plan allows.
Choose a cadence
Daily for fast-moving SEO work, weekly for steady monitoring. Every check writes a row to your trend history. Pause or resume any time without losing data.
Watch the trend chart
Your domain plotted alongside every competitor on the location. Improvements pull the line down, regressions push it up — it's always rank-on-Y, time-on-X.
Why city-level (not lat/lng)?
Organic results don't change street-by-street.
Google personalizes organic results by region and metro, but two searches on opposite sides of the same city return near-identical blue links. The Organic Tracker checks once per city per cadence — cheaper, faster, and accurate. For lat/lng-precision, that's what the Maps Grid Scanner is for.
One subscription per row
emergency plumber
Phoenix, AZ
#2
emergency plumber
Mesa, AZ
#7
drain cleaning
Phoenix, AZ
#4
water heater repair
Phoenix, AZ
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What you get over checking ranks by hand
The Organic Tracker is built for agencies who need to defend a ranking story with months of data, not last week's memory.
Real Google searches, every time
Each check hits live Google in the target city. Not estimates from a third-party SERP database. Not last week's cached snapshot.
Competitors on the same chart
Add up to five competitors per location and the tracker checks all of them in the same SERP — one API call, one trend chart, no extra work.
Daily or weekly, your call
Daily for active SEO work where you need to feel changes immediately. Weekly for steady monitoring without information overload. Switch any time.
Multi-city per keyword
One keyword in five cities is five rows, five trend lines. Useful for service-area businesses or franchises where the same keyword has different stories in different markets.
Pause without losing history
Hit pause and the trend stops collecting. Resume and it picks up. Remove a tracker and it goes inactive — the chart you built doesn't disappear.
Built for agencies
White-label-ready (Pro+), API-accessible (Agency), and the same tool you'll use across every client. No tool sprawl.
Already have the Maps Grid Scanner?
Both tools are on every paid plan. Map Pack visibility (where in town do I show up?) and organic rank (what position do I hold for this keyword?) are different questions — RankCheck answers both without making you pick.
The complete guide
Organic rank tracking, explained
Organic rank tracking is the practice of recording where your website appears in Google's blue-link results for a keyword, in a specific place, over time. For local businesses and the agencies that serve them, that middle part — in a specific place — is what makes it hard, and what makes it worth automating.
What is an organic rank tracker?
Below the ads and the Map Pack, the ten blue links on a Google results page are the organic results — the listings you can't pay for. Your organic rank is simply your position in that list. A rank tracker checks that position for you on a schedule and saves every result, so instead of a number you half-remember from last month you get a trend line you can read at a glance: climbing, flat, or slipping.
Checking by hand doesn't scale and isn't reliable. Google personalizes results by the searcher's location and history, so the rank you see from your own office — already logged in, on your own connection — isn't the rank a customer across town sees. An organic rank tracker takes you out of the equation and checks from the city that actually matters.
Organic rank vs. the Map Pack: two different questions
Local search shows two kinds of results that answer different questions. The Map Pack — the three-business map box — answers where in town do I show up? The organic results below it answer what position do I hold for this exact keyword? A business can sit #2 in the Map Pack and #18 in organic for the same search, because the two are ranked on different signals.
RankCheck.live tracks both. The Organic Tracker on this page follows your blue-link position per keyword and city over time; the Maps Grid Scanner maps your Map-Pack rank as a heatmap across a whole service area. Most agencies want both numbers in front of a client, which is why every paid plan includes both tools on one bill. If you're weighing tools, our Local Falcon alternative page lays out how that bundle compares on price and credits.
Daily rank checking vs. weekly: how often should you check?
There's no single right cadence — it depends on what you're doing.
Daily rank checking earns its keep when you're actively working a campaign: you've just shipped on-page changes, earned links, or fixed a technical issue, and you want to feel the SERP move instead of waiting two weeks to learn it didn't. Daily checks also catch volatility — a Google update or a competitor's push — while you can still react to it.
Weekly checks are the right default for steady monitoring once rankings settle. They give you a clean trend without the day-to-day noise (organic positions wobble a spot or two naturally) and they're easier on your credit budget. RankCheck lets you set any cadence from daily to monthly per group of trackers and switch it whenever the work changes — fast while you're pushing, slow once you're holding.
Why we track by city, not by street
Organic results are personalized by region and metro, but they don't change meaningfully from one street corner to the next the way the Map Pack does — two searches on opposite sides of the same city return near-identical blue links. So the Organic Tracker checks once per city per cadence (accurate and economical) and lets you add the same keyword in as many cities as you serve, each as its own trend line. A service-area business or franchise can watch “emergency plumber” tell a completely different story in Phoenix than it does in Mesa.
When you do need street-by-street precision — which is exactly where Map-Pack rank varies most — that's the grid scanner's job, not organic tracking.
Tracking competitors on the same chart
Your own rank only means something next to the people you're competing with. Add up to five competitors per location and the tracker checks them in the same SERP on the same schedule, then plots every domain on one chart. When your line crosses above a competitor's, you can see exactly when it happened and tie it back to the work you did — the difference between telling a client “we're improving” and showing them the week they passed their biggest rival.
Want the bigger picture on checking your real Google rank from anywhere? Read what a live rank checker actually is, or start tracking free — every account comes with 200 SERP credits and 3 video scans, no card required.
Pay for the data, not the brand name.
We match the leading rank-tracker's prices and hand you 47–130% more credits at every tier — and what you don't use rolls over up to 2× your plan. Sign up free and we'll drop 200 SERP credits and 3 video scans in your account to try every tool.
Monthly plans — three tools on one bill
Maps Grid Scanner, Organic Tracker, and Video Scanner all included on every paid plan. Quotas scale with your tier.
Starter
$24.99/mo
11,000
SERP credits/mo
$0.00227 / credit
grid + organic combined
Rolls over up to 22,000
Spot-check a single business or a handful of locations.
Plus
- ✓20 video scans/mo
- ✓10 locations
- ✓1 team member
- ✓Cancel anytime
Pro
$49.99/mo
28,000
SERP credits/mo
$0.00179 / credit
grid + organic combined
Rolls over up to 56,000
Freelancers and small agencies managing a handful of clients.
Plus
- ✓50 video scans/mo
- ✓30 locations
- ✓3 team members
- ✓Logo-only white-label
- ✓Cancel anytime
Agency
$99.99/mo
65,000
SERP credits/mo
$0.00154 / credit
grid + organic combined
Rolls over up to 130,000
Unlimited everything, custom domain, write-scope API.
Plus
- ✓100 video scans/mo
- ✓Unlimited locations
- ✓Unlimited team members
- ✓White-label + custom domain
- ✓Full API (read + write)
- ✓Cancel anytime
Premium
$199.99/mo
145,000
SERP credits/mo
$0.00138 / credit
grid + organic combined
Rolls over up to 290,000
High-volume agencies — double the credits, double the video proof, daily organic on tap.
Plus
- ✓200 video scans/mo
- ✓Unlimited locations
- ✓Unlimited team members
- ✓White-label + custom domain
- ✓Full API (read + write)
- ✓Cancel anytime
One-time credit packs — no subscription needed
Top up if you blow through your monthly stipend. Credits never expire and stack on top of your plan.
Need more? Contact us for custom volume pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Still have questions? Contact us.
Sign up free — get 200 SERP credits and 3 video scans on the house
Pick keywords. Pick cities. Run real Google searches and get recorded video proof — the exact same kind of report you'd send a client once you're on a plan. No credit card required.
200
SERP creditsPower the Grid Scanner and Organic Tracker
3
Video scansRecord real Google searches you can share
- ✓Real Google searches from your target city, recorded on video
- ✓Your exact ranking position — or confirmation you're not showing up
- ✓Map pack, ads, and organic results — everything your customers see
- ✓Downloadable videos and PDF reports you can share with anyone
No credit card required. Subscribe later for monthly credits and the full feature set — credits roll over up to 2× your plan.