I needed a tool that quickly tells me what page of search results a URL ranks on at Google for a specific keyword. It didn’t need any advanced features or complicated options, just something where if I was visiting a page I could hit a button and instantly find out where it ranks for a keyword. I threw together a quick PHP script that does exactly this, including a browser button so I can have a Where’s it rank?” link in my firefox toobar. This script certainly doesn’t do anything phenomenal (it took me about an hour to write), but I thought I’d offer the source code for download to SEOmoz readers anyway. This isn’t intended to be one of our official SEO tools, it’s just something I thought I’d share in case there was someone out there with a similar need.
Installation is simple: upload the file to a folder on your webserver that executes PHP and give it a .php extension.
I know there’s a whole host of features this script could have that it doesn’t, such as returning results from .co.uk or searching engines other than Google, but that’s partially why I offered up the source code. I figured if you needed a very specific feature you could download the source and muck with it yourself. If you use the script on your site a link back is always appreciated, if not that’s cool too.
