We are happy to announce a major update to SERank 2.1, the most powerful search engine rank checker for Mac OS X. With SERank you can check where your website ranks in over one hundred search engines around the world, track your changes and even create PDF reports for yourself, clients or customers.

SERank 2.1 adds the ability to check multiple websites at once as well as faster, more search engine friendly rank checks, important fixes for Google and Ask and more.

SERank 2.1 is free for anyone who currently still has a valid upgrade plan. All purchases for SERank come with one year of free upgrades. You can purchase the full version of SERank, or renew your license, by visiting out secure online store.

We look forward to hearing your feedback and are here to answer any of your questions.

SERank, the most powerful search engine rank checker for Mac OS X has been updated to version 2.0.1.

This update fixes problems with some searches not completing, specifically Ask.com.

It also includes other minor fixes and enhancements.

SEKeyword, the free keyword research tool, has just been updated to version 1.2. This new update offers improved support for iWeb based websites, as well as fixes problems retrieving keywords for certain websites.

This update is of course free for all users.

SEKeyword provides the most popular key terms related to your website so you know that if you rank high for these keywords, you are guaranteed to get visitors from search engines.

SEKeyword integrates with SERank, the most powerful search engine rank checker for Mac OS X and Domainer, the fully featured domain management tool.

Today we are extremely pleased to announce a major update to SERank. In fact, this update is our biggest ever with a host of new features and enhancements.

SERank, the number one search engine rank checker for Mac OS X boasts over 50 new search engines, a new competitor analysis feature, support for Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and enhanced SEO Reports for clients, customers or internal use.

We worked extremely hard on this release, utilizing an extended beta period to make sure it’s rock solid. Download the latest update to give it a try.

Version 2.0 is a paid upgrade for version 1.x users unless you purchased after January 5, 2009. If you purchased after January 5, 2009, you can get your free update by visiting http://www.ragesw.com/getupdate.php.

If you purchased before January 5, 2009, you can purchase an update at a discounted price from our upgrade stores. Make sure you purchase the appropriate update for the current version that you own.

Last week Microsoft discontinued support for their MSN search, moving over to their new Bing search engine. We wrote about Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine a few days ago.

Anyways, since they discontinued support for MSN search, SERank will not be able to complete searches when MSN is selected. To get around this problem, do not do a rank check through MSN.

Fortunately we have already addressed this issue for the next update to SERank. We have added Bing support as well as a host of new features and enhancements for version 2.0 of SERank.

You can download a beta version of SERank by creating a free beta tester’s account on TryBeta.

More details on version 2.0 will come shortly, but users who purchase SERank today, will be able to upgrade to version 2.0 for free.

Recently Microsoft announced their all new search engine Bing. Coined as a “decision search engine”, Bing has certainly started off on the right foot providing one of the best search experiences of any previous Microsoft search engine and arguably of other major players in the field.

What is a decision based search engine?

Unlike Google who ranks websites based on popularity, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine attempts to understand what you are actually looking for. For example, if you were to type “digital camera” into Bing you will see a list of categories on the left hand side. Click the Shopping category to quickly see product reviews, comparisons and price. What’s more, your category selection is remembered so that each time you do a search for a product, you are taken directly to the Shopping category once again.

Bing helps you make decisions on any number of questions you may have. For example, type in “flights from boston to san francisco” and you will be able to quickly see when the best time to travel is, how much a flight would cost and what the best price is. Microsoft has attempted to bring features from dozens of other websites under one easy to use search engine including stocks, shopping, local maps and more.

Optimizing your website for Bing.com

With an estimated $80 million dollar marketing budget Microsoft will no doubt be attracting more and more users to its new search engine. Unlike MSN search and Live search, Bing brings innovation and much needed improvements to the search industry. So how you can you optimize your website for Bing?

Lets first take a quick look at Bing’s search results. Howevering your mouse over a search result in Bing reveals a popup window with a quick preview of the listed page. This isn’t a full web page preview like other search engines may provide. Instead, Bing attempts to grab the most relevant portions of a website so searchers can quickly decide whether or not they would like to visit it.

Bing website description

This means, having the number one spot for a search result may not always provide the most amount of visitors. Here are some tips for optimizing your website for Bing.com;

1. With the new page summary features, ensuring you have enticing content on your page will allow you to be able to attract more visitors from the search results page.
2. Ensuring all of your pages have enough text on them with your targeted keywords. Initial studies show that having larger blocks of text near the top of your page results in better page summaries.
3. Keeping anchor text (text used to link between pages) consistent for important pages so they show up under the ‘Also on this page’ section.
4. Local search results are getting more and more important so be sure to include your address on your website.
5. Create your XML Sitemap file and submit it to Bing Webmaster Tools.

How can RAGE Software’s SEO products help?

Sitemap Automator will work flawlessly with Bing.com to get your website noticed by Bing as well as all other major search engines.

XML Sitemaps created with Sitemap Automator are still the best way to get your website listed in all major search engines.

SERank is being updated as we speak to include support for Bing.com. A new version will be available in the next few days so you can easily track your website’s success in Bing.com’s search results.

Domainer is still an invaluable tool for tracking your domains and websites, finding link partners and discovering how successful your competitor’s website’s are.

We are pleased to announce major updates to our search engine optimization software suite for Mac OS X. The updates include new versions of a number of our products including Sitemap Automator, WebCrusher and SERank.

Sitemap Automator
The only way to get your website recognized by all major search engines, Sitemap Automator 2.0 now lets you easily manage an unlimited number of websites. In addition, it can easily show you potential search engine crawling errors on your website, supports robot.txt files and offers improved support for iWeb built websites.

This 2.0 update is the first paid upgrade since the initial release back in 2005. If you purchased before May 1, 2008 you can purchase an update for just $19.95 USD. If you purchased after May 1, 2008 then you can get your free upgrade serial number from http://www.ragesw.com/getupdate.php

WebCrusher
Optimize your website so they load as fast as possible for your visitors. At the click of a button, WebCrusher can take any website and intelligently remove unneeded code and compress images making the website load as quickly as possible in any web browser. This free update to version 1.4 includes enhanced CSS optimizations and improved iWeb optimizations.

SERank
See exactly where your website ranks in over 60 search engines for your most popular keywords. Discover who ranks higher than you and how you can rise above them to get the number one spot on all major search engines. Version 1.9 adds enhanced reporting features, new exporting options with compatibility with Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers, as well as includes important bug fixes.

If you will be attending Macworld Expo 2009 please stop by our booth at #1744 and we would be happy to talk with your about our software and these updates.

We are pleased to announce that RAGE SERank 1.7 has been released and can now provide up to 1000 search results so you can easily see if you are making improvements in your search engine rankings. Plus it contains speed optimization options so you can ensure you are always running at peak performance.

This update is free for registered users and can be downloaded from the RAGE SERank Download page.

Tip: With this version we included a few optimization options to help improve speed. If you find RAGE SERank is starting to run a little slow, go to the File menu and select ‘Optimize Database…’. This dialog lets you remove a certain number of search results that you no longer care about. This will not remove the search result history for your website, just the cached search results for all other pages. Older versions of RAGE SERank would hold up to 100 search results for all keywords and search engines you checked. This can quickly add up to a lot of data that needs to be managed by RAGE SERank. Now you can remove older data that is no longer relevant for selected websites.

If you have any specific questions about your website or your search engine ranking, be sure to post your questions on the RAGE SEO Discussion Forum for Mac users.

This morning we finally released RAGE SERank 1.0, an all new application for Mac web site owners to track and manage their search engine rankings. With RAGE SERank you simply add the keywords you want to rank highly for and select from the over 40 search engines to check your search engine rankings.

RAGE SERank will automatically check your rankings and provide a detailed report of where your web site ranks in each search engine for all of the keywords you have entered. RAGE SERank can also be used to check the search engine rankings of your competitors to easily see what keywords they are targeting and ranking highly for. RAGE SERank will keep track of your rankings over time so you can graph changes or go back to any previous rank check.

With the professional version of RAGE SERank you can create customized PDF rank reports that you can use for personal use, or send to your clients or colleagues. The professional version also allows an unlimited number of web sites to be checked.

Download a free trial version of RAGE SERank or order your full standard or professional license.