Track competitor Google rankings automatically in a spreadsheet

Pulls competitor Google search rankings for your keywords and logs the results straight into a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

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

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

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A stepRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationSpreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Scrape.doGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Manually checking where competitors rank for your target keywords, across multiple countries, is slow and easy to lose track of. You end up with inconsistent notes instead of a clean, repeatable record you can act on.

Who it fits

SEO specialists, marketers, and agencies tracking competitor keyword rankings.

How it works

  1. Starts when you run it with a list of keywords and target countries
  2. Fetches Google search results for each keyword
  3. Extracts the top ten ranking sites, titles, and descriptions
  4. Appends the structured results to a spreadsheet
What you get

Rankings you can watch shift week to week

Every keyword you track gets logged with your competitors' current Google rankings, giving you a running view of where you stand.

What you get

A spreadsheet log of competitor Google rankings for each tracked keyword and country.

What you need

A Scrape.do account and a Google Sheets account.

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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