Revisiting SheerSEO One Year Later
Monday, May 11th, 2009 by Gerald WeberThanks for being a return reader! If you haven't already, you may subscribe to our articles by email alerts or via RSS feed . Also you can follow us on Twitter !
Last week, I was browsing through some Search Engine Journal posts from last year when I came across the following post by Ann Smarty – SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings. After reading her post and noticing that the tool had some very interesting features, I decided that I wanted to try it out for myself. Although Ann wrote a great post, it was written nearly a year ago, so I thought it would be useful to share my more recent experience with
Since I do all my work on an iMac, the first feature that I liked about this tool is that it is web based, so it will run on Mac and Linux systems in addition to Windows.
After exploring the tool for awhile, the thing that really started to stand out in my mind was the amount of SheerSEO features that can really be useful for SEO agencies. To begin with, you can see all of your current positions in one table:

However, as their demo shows, one of the features that could provide a lot of value for an SEO agency is their tracking of historical positions. Clients expect to see progress, andSheerSEO makes it easy to show it to them:
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