Rank Tracking Without Code

Your rank reports broke in 2025. Nobody sent a memo.

Google killed num=100

September 2025. Trackers lost the parameter that read 100 results at once. Costs went from about $1 to $8–$12 per 1,000 keywords.

Your GSC data changed too

Bot impressions vanished. Average position "improved" overnight. That was not a ranking gain.

Track pages, not keywords

You don't ship keywords. You ship pages. One page ranks for dozens of queries you'd never add to a tool.

Four signals per page

Position, traffic, index status, SEO score. One number lies. Four together point at the cause.

The setup, no code

Live sitemap with lastmod. Connect Search Console. Connect Bing. Import your URLs. That's it.

Track, diff, notify

Read the sitemap, spot the dates that moved, ping the engines. No crawler, no scripts on your pages.

When a page drops

Check index status first. Most drops are an indexing problem wearing a ranking problem's clothes.

Then clicks vs impressions

Impressions steady but clicks falling? Your position is fine. Rewrite the title before touching the body.

Read your own data

Google and Bing already hold it. Read it page by page.

Read the full guide