I got used to another tool from a few years of use, but I tried out RankActive to accommodate growing needs, and I like it. It does one thing, and it does it very well in an affordable model, far from the rest of the industry. They give you 2,500 keywords, 25 sites and 5 different engines/locations to check from for each site. And unlike other rank tracking software, these do not count against your 2,500 keywords, so you get what others would count as 10,000 keywords. That could get really expensive elsewhere. Other tools I like are the No-non-sense keyword research tool, which I found very useful. I also like the way the site auditor works, showing you a detailed list of the pages of your site by problem/alert, rather than just telling you your site have certain problem in X number of pages, or just listing the pages.

Rank Tracking: Rankactive is generally attractive software - but what makes it a particularly sensible choice is the very low cost for Ranktracking. Many vendors provide daily queries for a variety of popular search engines and do simulate search from most countries / cities in the world. The number of included keywords often at first glance doesn't look bad either - but it's worth checking the details: The standard billing model in the SEO-software industry does not look at the count of individual keyword but rather counts the number of search queries performed per keyword. If you track the performance of a particular search-term in 5 countries or in 5 different search engines, 5 credits will be required for this one search term alone. The comfortable looking quota of 1000 keywords may in reality shrink down to meager 200 search terms quickly. RankActive works differently: There is no credit system - for $ 69.95 (on monthly billing) you can really check 2500 keywords daily, with five different search engine configurations. Hence one gets hugely more data for the money, than with all comparable products we have tried. Cheaper one can only check large amounts of keywords with custom tools and a lot of proxies - not counting the setup effort. Checking daily rankings with local machines also came at the expense that computers / Internet bandwidth are occupied for likely hours. RankActive goes through search queries in six-digits order within minutes and makes the result conveniently available inside the browser – local hardware remains perfectly idle. Interface + usability A big plus point of RankActive is the tidy interface with great-looking graphs and table functionalities, unique in the industry. Some good SEO tools allow users to show and hide and table columns. RankActive goes even one step further by letting users re-order tables with drag and drop. It would be nice if typical spreadsheet programs such as Excel or Google Sheets made this so easy. Likewise unique is the facility to display tables tidily grouped by the values ​​in an individual column. Also the interface for data filtering has been solved very well - constantly needed filter functions are reached right from the table header and without modal dialog boxes. The user interface, programmed in Google's Angular is fully responsive and makes it possible to use all program functions on Desktop machines and Smartphose alike – that still is far from being ubiquitous in 2019. Onpage analysis: RankActive comes with a tidy on-page workspace and and already with its "Optimal" tarif offers 15,000 crawling depth - per project. If you use the contract to the fullest you may crawl up to 375,000 pages for as often as you like. Onepage tools provided are perfectly adequate for all common analyzes. Keyword Research: RankActive has a high performance keyword research workspace and apparently runs a large own index. Within seconds you can read out the complete ranking of competitors and either save as tables or add to the ranking. Also interesting is a sandbox feature that allows you to store keyword candidates within the program without continuously tracking them. It would make sense however, to save these keywords with all relevant KPIs in that sandbox. Reporting / Teamwork We do in-house SEO and therefore have no need for customer-reports. However, this workspace is remarkably complete and versatile and certainly worth a mention. At an extremely low price point SEO agencies may generate reports with their own branding. For daily work with collected data, all tables may get quickly exported standard spreadsheet formats. Also unique in this price range is the generous team-support - already the package for $ 69.95/month lets you add 25 team members and offers a rich set of tools to manage user rights.

The range of available tools is simply great. And they are very, very generous of the website limitation. Most other tools I have seen let you work on 5 websites at a time, some allow 10 websites. But RankActive, they go beyond anything and lets you 25 simultaneous websites in the dashboard with 2500 keywords total! The number of websites and keyword limit alone can make it a valid purchase.