• Top 100 Tracking

RankTracking.co Tracks Only Top 20 – Ranktracker Tracks Full Top 100

  • Felix Rose-Collins
  • 2 min read

Intro

If you’re looking into RankTracking.co rank tracking, there’s a depth limitation that’s easy to overlook — and it matters a lot once you’re doing real SEO work.

RankTracking.co tracks rankings only up to the Top 20 positions. Anything ranking beyond page two (positions 21–100) is not tracked or reported.

That makes RankTracking.co a shallow rank tracker, not a full SERP monitoring tool.

How RankTracking.co rank tracking actually works

RankTracking.co focuses on early-page visibility only:

  • Tracks positions 1–20
  • No data for positions 21–100
  • No insight into pages 3–10
  • No historical movement before page two
  • Limited competitor tracking depth

If a keyword is ranking at position 34, 56, or 88, RankTracking.co simply doesn’t record it.

As far as reports are concerned, that keyword hasn’t started ranking yet.

What this feels like in real SEO work

This limitation becomes obvious very quickly:

  • Keywords suddenly “appear” when they enter the Top 20
  • SEO progress below page two is invisible
  • Rankings seem static for long periods
  • Improvements lack context

Example:

  • A keyword moves from position 92 → 61 → 33 You see nothing.
  • It later moves to position 18 Suddenly it appears.

All of the work before that moment is hidden.

Why Top 20-only tracking is a problem

SEO progress rarely starts on page one or two.

Most meaningful movement happens here:

  • Page 10 → Page 7
  • Page 7 → Page 5
  • Page 5 → Page 3

Those are exactly the positions RankTracking.co does not track.

Without visibility into those stages:

  • Momentum is impossible to measure
  • Early wins are missed
  • SEO decisions are delayed
  • Competitor movement goes unnoticed

The blind spots this creates

With Top 20-only tracking, you cannot:

  • Validate content or link changes early
  • See rankings building momentum
  • Identify threats before competitors reach page one
  • Diagnose drops below page two
  • Understand why rankings improved

SEO becomes reactive instead of proactive.

How Ranktracker handles rank tracking differently

Ranktracker was rebuilt specifically to eliminate these blind spots.

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With Ranktracker:

  • All positions from 1–100 are tracked
  • Updates run daily
  • No depth limits
  • Full historical movement
  • Clear competitor visibility
  • Built for scale and speed

If a keyword moves from position 97 → 72 → 46 → 22 → 9, you see every step.

Nothing is hidden.

RankTracking.co vs Ranktracker in simple terms

RankTracking.co

  • Tracks only Top 20
  • No data beyond page two
  • Early SEO progress invisible
  • Limited competitive insight

Ranktracker

  • Tracks full Top 100 daily
  • Complete SERP visibility
  • Momentum visible early
  • Designed for modern SEO workflows

One shows only late-stage results. The other shows the full journey.

Who RankTracking.co works best for

RankTracking.co may be acceptable if:

  • You only care about page one and page two
  • Early-stage SEO signals aren’t important
  • Your keywords already rank near the Top 20

But if your SEO depends on:

  • Tracking growth from page 3–10
  • Seeing momentum early
  • Testing and iterating quickly
  • Monitoring competitors before they overtake you

Then Top 20-only tracking is not enough.

Bottom line

RankTracking.co tracks only the Top 20 rankings. Everything beyond page two is invisible.

Ranktracker tracks the full Top 100 every day, with no blind spots, no delays, and complete historical context.

If you want to understand how rankings actually move — not just when they finally arrive — full Top 100 tracking matters.

Felix Rose-Collins

Felix Rose-Collins

Ranktracker's CEO/CMO & Co-founder

Felix Rose-Collins is the Co-founder and CEO/CMO of Ranktracker. With over 15 years of SEO experience, he has single-handedly scaled the Ranktracker site to over 500,000 monthly visits, with 390,000 of these stemming from organic searches each month.

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