Proxies for rank tracking and local SEO

Rankings depend on where the searcher sits. To know your position in Lyon or in Dallas, the search has to come from Lyon or Dallas.

Which proxy is best for rank tracking?

For rank tracking, pick rotating residential proxies with country and city targeting. Every search goes out from a household IP in the place you are measuring, so you get the results a local searcher gets, and no one address searches often enough to be throttled.

Rankings per city

Residential proxies accept a country, a state and a city in the username, so each search can start exactly where your customers live.

A new IP per search

Each rank check stands alone, so let the IP rotate. That keeps every address well below the search engine's limits.

Check on a rhythm

Positions change slowly. Check your key terms daily and the long tail weekly, and both traffic and cost stay small.

Recommended proxy types

Setting it up in four steps

Order the smallest Residential plan (one gigabyte) as a trial. Pay with crypto and it is delivered automatically.
Take the host resi.proxies.boo, port 8080, and your username and password from the plan page.
Set the exit country with a code in the username, like USERNAME-country-us.
Point the job at your real target. Working? Top up the same plan. Blocked? Move to the next proxy type listed above.

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SEO monitoring: common questions

Why do my rank checks not match my own browser?

Your browser is logged in, has a search history and sits in one place. A clean residential IP in the target city shows what a brand-new local searcher sees.

How much traffic does rank tracking take?

A results page without images weighs a few hundred kilobytes, so one gigabyte covers a few thousand checks. Fewer results per page and no images keep it lower.