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title: Track your keyword rankings in Google with SEOPress Insights
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/track-keyword-rankings-google-seopress-insights/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2026-04-17
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# Track your keyword rankings in Google with SEOPress Insights

**[SEOPress Insights](https://www.seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/insights/)** is required to follow this tutorial.

## Add keywords to Insights

There are two ways you can add keywords to track:

- the configuration wizard
- the **Settings page** under the **Insights** menu

If you are new to **Insights**, we suggest using the setup wizard to properly configure the plugin. This is accessible from **Insights**, **Settings**, **Launch the wizard**.

The wizard starts, do **Next step**.

[Activate your license](https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/activate-seopress-pro-license/) key if you haven’t already and click on **Continue**.

Here you are at the add keywords screen.

Enter up to **50 expressions**, one per line.

Duplicates will be automatically deleted.

## Choose your search engine

Below the keywords text area, a **drop-down list allows you to define the Google search engine** on which we will track your positions.

52 different locations are available.

Choose the one corresponding to your main audience then click **Continue**.

In the last step, click on the **Review Settings** button to return to the Insights dashboard.

Wait **24 to 48 hours** for your first position statement to appear directly on your WordPress site.

Since [version 3.0 of SEOPress Insights](https://www.seopress.org/newsroom/product-news/seopress-insights-3-0/), you can now assign a custom Google location for each keyword.

## Analyse and monitor your rankings

To see your keyword positions, go to **Insights**, **Rankings** page.

The graph shows the evolution of your average site ranking based on the keywords you follow.

You can filter it by date and / or by keywords.

The table below the graph shows the rankings of each keyword with the following informations:

- **Positions**: where you are ranking in Google search results
- **Variation**: the evolution of the keyword’s position in relation to the selected start and end dates.
- **URL**: the URL found in Google search results
- **Search volume**: number of searches per month for this keyword on the selected search engine from the settings
- **CPC**: the Cost Per Click for the keyword in dollars
- **Competition**: competition for the keyword in Google Ads. 0 for no competition, 1 for very competitive.
- **Date**

## Sort, search and customize your data

You can run a search inside your table from the dedicated field “**Find data in the table**“.

To **sort your data** by a specific column, click on its header. Click again to reverse the order.

To **show / hide some columns**, use the hamburger menu.

To **export** your data, click **CSV** or **Excel** buttons. Click **Copy** button to save your data to your clipboard.

## Track your competitors with Insights

Go to **Insights**, **Competitors** page.

Using the keywords you track with Insights, we show you who ranks first.

Determine who your real competitors are, and put in place a strategy to dethrone them.

Like Rankings and Backlinks, you can **export**, **filter**, **order** your data.

Trends are updated daily.