RankMetric - SERP Rank Tracker for Google Search, Maps, AI Overview & AI Mode

RankMetric is a serp rank tracker built directly into your WordPress dashboard, designed for site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies who want a keyword rank tracker that shows exactly where they stand on Google without logging into a separate SaaS dashboard. If you've been searching for the best serp rank tracker, a reliable google rank tracker, or a best serp keyword rank tracker that doesn't require you to leave WordPress, RankMetric was built for exactly that job. Most rank tracking tools live outside of WordPress entirely — a separate login, a separate dashboard, and a separate subscription that has nothing to do with the site you're actually optimizing. RankMetric takes a different approach. It's a real wordpress seo plugin: your projects, your keywords, your competitors, and your reports all live inside wp-admin, right next to the content you're trying to rank. Free vs Pro This free plugin includes unlimited Google Search rank tracking — unlimited projects, unlimited keywords, competitor tracking, Share of Voice, SERP feature detection, PDF/CSV reports, and email/Slack alerts, with no artificial caps and no trial period. Three additional Google result types are part of RankMetric Pro:

• Google Maps / Local Pack tracking — your business's position in the local 3-pack, with a competitor map view.
• Google AI Overview tracking — whether your site is cited in Google's AI-generated answer box, and who else got cited.
• Google AI Mode tracking — URL citations and brand mentions inside Google's AI Mode answers.

You'll see these three marked with a lock icon on the Add Project screen; clicking one shows what Pro unlocks. Everything else in this plugin — every feature listed above for Google Search — is free and unlimited, not a limited trial. Whether you need a straightforward google keyword rank tracker for organic Search results, a google maps rank tracker for local SEO, or visibility into how often your site is cited in Google's AI Overview and AI Mode answers, RankMetric covers all four of Google's major result types from one place — Search free forever, the other three available in Pro. At the core of RankMetric is a genuine rank tracker for serp tracking at scale — powered by SerpApi's real-time Google data (see the SerpApi section below), so what you see in your dashboard reflects what a real searcher sees on Google right now, not a cached or estimated position from a third-party index. Why RankMetric? There is no shortage of SEO plugins in the WordPress space, but very few of them actually track rankings — most focus on on-page optimization (titles, meta descriptions, readability) and stop there. RankMetric picks up exactly where those plugins leave off: it tells you whether your on-page work is actually moving the needle in the search results. Here's what sets RankMetric apart from a typical serp rank tracker:

• It's native to WordPress. No separate login, no separate app, no context-switching. Your rank tracking dashboard is a tab in wp-admin, styled to feel like it belongs there.
• It covers four Google surfaces, not just one. Most rank trackers only check classic Google Search. RankMetric also tracks Google Maps local pack rankings, Google AI Overview citations, and Google AI Mode citations — the two newest and fastest-growing ways people find businesses on Google.
• It tracks competitors, not just you. A rank tracker that only shows your own position is half the picture. RankMetric's Competitor Tracking and Share of Voice features show you exactly how you stack up against the sites you're actually competing with for each keyword.
• It surfaces SERP features, not just the blue links. Featured snippets and "People Also Ask" boxes change how much traffic a #1 ranking actually sends you. RankMetric flags both automatically, at no extra cost, because that data comes back in the same API call used to check your rank.
• It exports professional, branded reports. If you run an agency, or just want to share progress with a client, boss, or business partner, RankMetric generates polished PDF reports and raw CSV exports directly from the Reports screen — no copy-pasting numbers into a spreadsheet.
• It alerts you the moment something changes. Email and Slack alerts fire the instant a keyword drops past a threshold you set, or the moment you lose an AI Overview or AI Mode citation — so you find out from RankMetric, not from a client asking why traffic dropped.

Built for Real SEO Work, Not Just Vanity Metrics A keyword rank tracker is only useful if the numbers it shows you are numbers you can act on. RankMetric was built around that idea from day one. Every project — whether it's a Google Search project, a Google Maps listing, an AI Overview query, or an AI Mode query — gets its own Reports page with:

• A full rank history chart with 7-day, 30-day, 90-day, and all-time views
• A rank delta badge on every keyword, so you can see at a glance whether it moved up, down, or dropped out entirely since the last check
• Best-rank-ever and days-tracked stats per keyword
• A project-level summary strip (average rank, keywords ranked #1-3, keywords not ranking at all)
• A visual ranking distribution chart showing how your keyword portfolio breaks down across top-3, 4-10, 11-50, and unranked buckets

This isn't a plugin that shows you one number and calls it a day. It's a genuine rank tracker for serp tracking across the full lifecycle of a keyword — from the day you start tracking it to the day it finally lands in position #1. Accurate, Exact-Match Tracking One of the most common complaints about rank tracking tools — WordPress-based or otherwise — is inaccurate matching. A lot of tools will report you as "ranking" for a keyword because some page on your domain shows up somewhere in the results, even if it's the wrong page entirely. RankMetric checks for the exact URL you're tracking first, and only falls back to a domain-wide match (including subdomains) if the exact page isn't the one that ranked. Either way, you'll know which one happened, because Reports clearly distinguish "your tracked page" from "a different page on your site."

1.0.3

• Added license activation support (integrated with the RankMetric license server) for the AppSumo edition of this plugin: an activation wizard, a License section in Settings with plan/site info and a deactivate-this-site option, and a daily heartbeat that keeps license status and version telemetry current. This is inactive and invisible in the standard edition.

1.0.2

• White-label PDF reports. Upload your own logo in Settings and toggle it on to replace RankMetric's branding on every exported PDF report with your own. If no logo is uploaded, or the toggle is off, reports export with default RankMetric branding as always -- nothing changes unless you opt in.

1.0.1

• Google Maps projects now support competitor tracking. Add competitor business names (matched exactly as they appear on Google) when creating a Maps project, or manage them anytime from the Competitors page. Trend arrows, win/loss counts, and Share of Voice all work for Maps projects the same way they already did for Google Search.
• Google Search projects now paginate automatically to collect up to the full top 100 organic results per check, when Google/SerpApi has that many results available. Previously a single request could silently return as few as 8-10 results even when 100 were requested, with no way to know more existed. Result positions are correctly renumbered sequentially (1-100) across pages.
• Organic results in Reports now show each result's meta description snippet under the title and link, not just the title and URL.
• AI Mode projects can now track a Target URL, a Brand / Keyword Name, or both. RankMetric checks for URL citations and for text mentions of your brand name anywhere in the AI Mode response independently, and reports both signals separately in Reports.
• Rewrote the plugin readme with full documentation for every feature: Google Search, Google Maps, AI Overview, and AI Mode tracking, Competitor Tracking, Share of Voice, SERP Features, PDF Reports, and CSV Export.

1.0.0

• Initial release of the RankMetric plugin.