If you manage or own a small SEO company and are looking for a simple and cost effective way to gather keyword rankings for your clients, I would recommend using CleverStats' Google Monitoring Tool. It's doesn't cost anything and takes seconds to set up.

Some of the main features provided by their Google Monitoring Tool include:

- Can work through a proxy
- Exports results to CSV
- Imports keywords from a text file
- Can work through the Google Web API (the SOAP based version)
- Allows users to adds notes (useful for noting dates for Google algorithm changes or data refreshes)

The feature I liked the most about the ranking software was that once it returned the rankings for a URL and set of keywords, it also displayed the top competitors for the number of results you selected it to show. This allows for an SEM consultant to quickly identify how their clients' websites are doing versus its top competitors and also identifies new competitors in the landscape.

It is a free tool but I wish it had the ability to predefine competitor URLs so users don't manually have to locate them in the results list. I also think that the addition of historical ranking analysis would be a nice feature. Then again, how much can you expect from a free tool?

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