Watch Your Industry Ranking Move Over Time
Your dashboard now tracks your industry ranking and keeps the history, so you can see the direction of travel rather than whatever the number happens to be on the day you look.
Why the history is the feature
A ranking on its own is close to meaningless. It is a relative position that moves for reasons entirely outside your control, including how many people looked up somebody else this week.
The movement is different. A steady climb through a run, a spike when something is released, a plateau over a quiet six months: those correspond to real events, and seeing them plotted tells you something a single number cannot.
The most useful pattern to look for is the tail. A spike that decays in four days is publicity. A spike that settles at a permanently higher floor is a career step.
What it will not do
It will not raise your ranking, and nothing legitimately will. Anything sold to actors on that promise is either buying page views or lying, and both are visible to the people who matter.
It also will not tell you whether you are working, which is the only question that counts. A number moving up while nothing else changes is worth exactly the attention it deserves, which is not much.
The healthy way to use it
Look monthly, not daily. Note what was happening when it moved. Use it as a rough thermometer for whether your visibility work is doing anything, alongside your website statistics and press mentions, which are all measuring different faces of the same thing.
Actors who check a ranking every morning are not making better decisions than actors who check it in January and June. They are just having a worse time.
Setting it up
Add your profile identifier once in your integrations settings. Tracking starts from that point and builds history as it goes, so the chart is thin for the first few weeks and useful after a couple of months.
Alerts on significant movement can be switched on or off in notification preferences. Our recommendation is off, or dashboard only.
More on reading the chart in follow your ranking over time.
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