Every time you publish a post, you want it to be found on Google more than anything else.
Many tools show you which positions your posts and other content (pages, custom posts, and so on … ) rank on Google. But, they aren’t free, and you can’t simplify things to make this process faster.
Every time you log in to your tool, copy/paste your URL and then the tool will show you where your post is currently ranking on Google as well as on other search engines.
To make your life easier, I want you to install one simple plugin that will help you track keyword positions on Google easier and faster. Above all, it works right from your WordPress dashboard, so you don’t have to go anywhere.
The plugin’s name is Squirrly. This SEO plugin has an inbuilt Google position tracking feature that works right from your WordPress dashboard without you doing anything. I’ve talked about Squirrly months before in my SEO plugins post.
How To Set up SEO Squirrly Plugin to Track Your Blog Posts’ Rankings
The very first thing you need to do is install and activate the SEO Squirrly plugin.
If you are using any other SEO plugins such as Yoast, All in One SEO Pack, or The SEO Framework, you will need to turn off Squirrly’s meta description and title feature.
So that they don’t conflict with already published and existing meta SEO settings.
Alternatively, you can also transfer all of your settings (including metadata) from your previous plugin to Squirrly to use as your new plugin. The choice is up to you.
Once you complete installation, activate the plugin by signing up for Squirrly SEO. It’s mandatory because you can use Squirrly on one blog with one email at a time in the free plan.
Squirrly won’t show you all your previous posts’ rankings immediately after installing it.
You’ll need to optimize each of your posts that you want to track on Google SERPs. If you are just starting and have a few posts on your blog, this should be easy. If you have hundreds of posts already, this will take time.
All your new posts optimized by Squirrly will be tracked automatically, and within a few hours of publishing them, you’ll start seeing their position on Google SERPs. Simply click on the “see your rank on Google” button in the menu bar to check multiple posts.
Settings for Automated Tracking & Country Level Tracking
If you want to track your Google positions in any specific region, you can do so by changing the Google country, for which Squirrly will check the Google rank. If you want to check your position on Google.co.in, select India from the drop-down menu.
The search engine, by default, is Google.com.
Click on Save settings.
Below that, you can also choose how many pages should Squirrly analyze and track in an hour. If you are on shared hosting, you’ll need to set this to 0 page/hours, or else your server may respond slower.
However, when I used it here on BforBloggers, I didn’t see any issues at all.
That may be because I use managed nestify hosting.
Check Rankings Of All of your Posts in list format.
After you have optimized a few posts with Squirrly, you can check all of your posts’ positions on Google in a list format.
Go to the Squirrly menu and click on the performance analytics report tab.
Here you’ll find all of your previously optimized posts and their rank on Google.
Along with it, there is a keyword section that shows the targeted keyword you have optimized the post for. The rank you see here’s your posts on Google SERPs when that keyword is searched.
You can also click on force recheck to refresh the position rank in the analytics report.
More Features of Squirrly are:
- Copywriting assistant
- Keywords Briefcase
- Live On-page optimization assistant.
- Inbuilt keyword research tool
- Site Audit
- Email Support
- Import & Export accessibility
The best part about Squirrly is, “Audit reports.” Every week, Squirrly will send you a website audit report that shows how well your posts, pages, and overall website are optimized for search engine crawlers and human readers.
If there is an error like long descriptions and title tags, it’ll indicate a sticky note. SEMrush costs $99 for the plan that includes site audit reports.
These features come free with Squirrly, so you don’t have to buy a subscription right from the beginning.
However, if you want to use it on more than one site and manage everything from one dashboard, you’ll need to upgrade to the pro version.
I hope this guide has helped you. Tell me about your experience in the comment section below and share this post on your favorite social media.
Great info, well the other good side of using squirrly seo is that it also allow keyword researching.. . Thanks for sharing
@Harry,
That’s actually the best part, especially for newbies.
Thanks for the tweak aayush. I just want to know how often this gets the update? As the search positions change regularly.
Thanks for asking Sandeep,
After the first time when it shows you the rank, you have to click on force recheck to get the data update and if the any of your rankings have changed, it will show on that recheck. Alternatively, if you use managed hosting, you can set the auto refresh for 1 or 2 pages per hours from the way I demonstrated above. For shared hosting, it is better to leave it on 0.
Hi Aayush, really helped a lot. I’m using squirrly on my blog from a few weeks now. Great feature.
That’s great. It surely is a neat feature.
Happy to help!
Thank you Aayush!
I will definitely try the SEO Squirrly Plugin.
Let me know the results ????
Informative post for bloggers aayush, Thanks for it. I love the way you express feelings with words.
Very Welcome Teja, :)
P.S. I love writing.