Rank tracking

Rank tracking watches specific keywords in Google SERPs and records the position every day so you can see trends over weeks and months.

1. /rank-tracking → New project
2. Enter the domain you want to track (e.g. flowmaticx.com)
3. Add keywords — one per line, up to your plan limit
4. Pick a target country (US, UK, Sweden, etc)
5. Pick a device type (desktop or mobile — mobile is more common now)
6. Click Create project

• Current position (1-100 or null if not in top 100)
• Previous position (yesterday's reading)
• Position change (up or down arrows)
• Best position (all-time best)
• Worst position
• First position (when we started tracking)
• URL that ranks — the specific page on your site ranking for that keyword
• Historical snapshots — one row per day per keyword, kept for 90 days

An internal cron runs every 24 hours and re-checks every active keyword. You can also trigger a manual re-check from the project page.

FlowMaticX supports three SERP providers, picked automatically based on which one is configured:

1. Scale SERP (~$0.003/search) — cheapest, our default recommendation
2. SerpApi (~$0.01/search) — reliable alternate
3. DataForSEO (~$0.0006/search sync / $0.06 per 100 live) — legacy

If you're self-hosting FlowMaticX, your admin picks which provider to enable by setting the matching API key env var. Customers never configure this directly — you just see the rank data.

Each project page shows:

• Summary card — total keywords, average position, top 3 count, top 10 count, top 100 count
• Keyword table — sortable by position, change, best, worst, check date
• Historical chart — line graph of average position over time
• Per-keyword drill-down — click any keyword row to see its full snapshot history

Turn on "Ranking change alerts" to get notified in-app + email when:

• A keyword enters the top 3 (celebrate 🎉)
• A keyword drops out of the top 10 (investigate)
• A keyword position moves more than 5 spots in either direction

• Start with 20-50 keywords that matter most to your business. Don't track 500+ on day one.
• Mix intent types — informational, commercial, transactional. Different intents rank at different speeds.
• Track branded and non-branded together — your own brand name should be #1; if it isn't, fix that before worrying about anything else.
• Compare to competitors — create separate projects for competitor domains using the same keyword list. The comparison view shows who's winning.

• Monthly client reporting — show rank improvements month-over-month
• Content strategy validation — write an article, publish, watch it enter the top 100 → top 10 → top 3
• Competitive intelligence — watch for competitors moving up on your target keywords
• Algorithm update monitoring — when Google rolls out a core update, rank tracking shows which pages got hit

• High-precision daily trading — rank tracking has natural volatility, don't make business decisions on single-day movements
• Non-Google search — we only track Google SERPs
• Local pack results — we track the standard organic SERP, not the map pack (use Google Business Profile tools for that)