Monitor your Google search rankings and log them automatically

Checks where your keywords rank in Google search and logs the results to a spreadsheet on a schedule.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each keyword and domain pair.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
SerpApiGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Checking your search rankings by hand means running the same searches over and over and copying results into a spreadsheet. It is easy to lose track of trends over time, and manual checks eat into hours you could spend on actual SEO work. You need an ongoing record of where you stand without doing the searching yourself.

Who it fits

A business or marketer who tracks SEO performance for a website and its keywords.

How it works

  1. The automation runs on a schedule you set
  2. It looks up each keyword and domain in Google search results
  3. It records the current ranking position for each one
  4. Results are logged to a running history sheet
  5. A summary of the latest rankings is updated in a separate sheet
What you get

Ranking shifts you see the day they happen

You get your keyword rankings tracked and logged automatically so you always know where you stand.

What you get

An up-to-date spreadsheet showing current rankings and a historical log of past results.

What you need

A SerpApi account and a Google account for Sheets.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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