Here’s a look at some of the most beneficial YouTube rank trackers for this year.
In 2020, each month, more than 2 billion people logged in to YouTube, the most popular online platform in America, according to Pew Research.
That means 74% of United States adults watch videos on YouTube.
With all that traffic, it pays for YouTube uploaders to find the best way to track their rankings on the platform.
TubeBuddy
TubeBuddy bills itself as “your best friend on the road to YouTube success,” and that’s a pretty accurate description for this Youtube rank tracker.
The company’s browser extension offers such information as video SEO, advanced keyword research, and promotion support — and allows you to schedule video posts. The Price range is $7.20 a month to $39.20 a month.
vidl
Designed to boost video views, vidlQ, founded in 2011, helps independent YouTubers, including marketers, creators, and brands, to reach a broad audience and maximize marketing.
Among its services: a keyword score tool, comment productivity tool, a general “Scorecard” giving an overview of your videos’ overall performance, including view times and estimated earnings. Price range: Free to $415 a month.
Nightwatch
Nightwatch comprehensively tracks rankings across multiple search engines, desktop, and mobile, delivering particularly easy-to-understand reports.
It’s also an SEO reporting tool. Price range: Free trial to $399.95 a month.
SEMrush
Social media, market research, marketing, and SEO all come together in one online platform with SEMrush. SEMrush’s tools allow users to easily track rankings and keywords at the same time. Price range: Free trial to $399.95 a month.
While not a keyword tracker for Youtube Specifically, this all-in-one SEO tool provides keyword research data, video topic ideas, video engagement, and more.
SE Ranking
SE Ranking’s product is adaptable to customers ranging from entrepreneurs to small agencies, replete with SEO tools and social media management help. Price range: $31 a month to $151 a month (custom plans also available).
Sheer SEO
Sheer SEO’s online SEO software includes rank tracking and link building, using SEP to improve a website’s rankings in search engines. It can track multiple search items across platforms automatically, either daily or weekly—price range: Free to $10 to $40 a month.
Octoboard
Octoboard’s effective rank tracker organizes SEO keywords across competitors, languages, and locations, combining SEO data with online reputation. It also helps agencies create keyword tracking for clients and ranks competitors’ positions on the web. Price range: Starts at $35 a month for freelancers to $106 a month for agencies.
GeoRanker
SEO data is king at GeoRanker, which offers unlimited insights on effective keywords and campaign performances, offering cutting-edge search engine results pages (SERPs) for both mobile and desktop.
GeoRanker tracks rankings based on world location. Price range: Free trial to $490 a month.
SEOCockpit
This online platform lets creators identify valuable keywords and post videos, especially providing insight on using specific keywords would be an easy way to increase an overall ranking.
Hundreds of videos a minute are evaluated by SEOCockpit, offering a near-constant review of top videos. The price range is $199 a year to $799 a year.
Rank Tracker
This keyword research tool pulls certain keywords from YouTube to offer suggestions and provides a glimpse at how your competition is stacking up. It also includes such tools as a web audit and SERP checker. Price range: $6 a month to $44 a month.
YTRank
YTRank is a simple but effective tool to check any YouTube video’s ranking. All you need to know is how to copy and paste a link. Price: Free (for now).
Social Blade
A statistics website, Social Blade lets users track personal stats and measure growth on YouTube, providing easily accessible ways to monitor online presence. According to the company, 52.6 million YouTube creators use Social Blade. Price range: $3.99 a month to $99.99 a month.
Sprizzy
A family-owned company founded in 2016, Sprizzy works just for YouTube content creators to grow their channels by reaching out to new users — and raise their rankings overall. There are also ranking predicting and tracking tools. Price range: Starts at $50 a video.
Link Assistant
A no-nonsense way to optimize video content, Link Assistant emphasizes that YouTube is also the second-largest search engine out there — and helps users capitalize on that. The rank tracker is customizable and allows endless keyword rank searches. Price range: $149 a year to $349 a year.
SEO Clarity
SEO Clarity offers a full-service YouTube rank tracker, promising real-time reports and analysis. There are also unlimited rank comparisons with direct competitors and daily rankings with SERP previews. Price range: Options include packages from $750 a month to $4,500 a month.
Rank Ranger
Geared toward marketing professionals, Rank Ranger promises fast dynamic growth and insights on competitors. Users are particularly impressed by the comprehensive and customizable metrics reports. Price range: Free trial to $79 a month to $2,700 a month (also customizable).
DemandJump
Track your increased rankings with guidance from DemandJump, which offers insightful takes on content approaches for consumers and companies. It also features a planning tool for content promotion to maximize ranking potential. Price range: $99 a month to $799 a month and up.
Izea
An influencer marketing company for YouTube influencers, Izea works with creators and agencies to boost their reputations, monetize content and bolster influence across platforms. Price range: $149 a month to $500 a month, plus a la carte service options.
YouTube Analytics, YouTube Studio on your YouTube account
If you have a YouTube channel, you have your own YouTube Analytics offered by the company. The feature organizes your videos by reach, engagement, audience, and revenue, all helpful when figuring out your specific rankings and how to improve them. You can also check out other YouTubers’ stats, including revenue and keyword use. With YouTube Analytics, your latest video performance is just a click away. Price: Free.