• Top 100 Tracking

WhatsMySERP Tracks Only Top 50 – Ranktracker Tracks Top 100

  • Felix Rose-Collins
  • 2 min read

Intro

If you are researching WhatsMySERP rank tracking, there is an important limitation you should understand before relying on it for deep SEO insights.

WhatsMySERP tracks rankings only up to position 50 in the SERP. Anything beyond position 50 is not consistently fetched or reported.

That means positions 51–100 are incomplete or missing, which creates blind spots particularly for long-tail SEO, early visibility, and competitive movement.

How WhatsMySERP rank tracking actually works

WhatsMySERP focuses on shallow-to-mid SERP visibility:

  • Tracks rankings up to position 50
  • Positions 51–100 are not reliably tracked
  • Historical tracking beyond Top 50 is limited or unavailable
  • Competitive movement in deeper positions is often missing

If a keyword ranks at position 67, 81, or 93, WhatsMySERP may not show it.

What this feels like in real SEO work

This limitation shows up quickly in practice:

  • Page 3–10 movements are missing or delayed
  • SEO work below the Top 50 is invisible
  • Predictions about future rankings are harder
  • Competitor movements beyond page five are overlooked

For example:

  • A keyword moves from position 94 → 72 → 51

WhatsMySERP often does not report this movement

  • It later moves to 43

Suddenly it appears

Most of the journey was invisible.

Why tracking only Top 50 is a limitation

SEO progress rarely stays confined to page one or page two.

Real movement often looks like:

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

These are positions outside the Top 50.

Without reliable Top 100 data:

  • Momentum is hidden
  • Early progress is missed
  • Competitor threats go unnoticed
  • Long-tail growth is invisible

The hidden cost of partial depth

Tracking only up to position 50 means you cannot:

  • Validate early SEO changes
  • See competitor climbs before they break Top 50
  • Diagnose ranking volatility below page two
  • Track long-tail keywords effectively

This creates blind spots that make decision-making slower and noisier.

How Ranktracker handles rank tracking differently

Ranktracker was built specifically to eliminate these blind spots.

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With Ranktracker:

  • Top 100 rankings are tracked daily
  • Every position from 1–100 is first-class data
  • No incomplete results
  • Full historical tracking
  • Consistent refresh cycles

If a keyword moves from position 89 → 65 → 42 → 19, you see every step.

Nothing is hidden.

WhatsMySERP vs Ranktracker in simple terms

WhatsMySERP

  • Tracks only Top 50 reliably
  • Positions 51–100 are missing or incomplete
  • Early visibility and long-tail signals are hidden

Ranktracker

  • Tracks full Top 100 daily
  • All positions are visible
  • Momentum tracked long before page one
  • Competitor movement visible across the SERP

One stops seeing depths halfway. The other sees all the way through.

Who WhatsMySERP tracking works for

WhatsMySERP can work if:

  • You only care about Top 50 performance
  • Page one & two visibility are your focus
  • Early long-tail progress is not critical

But if your SEO depends on:

  • Tracking growth before Top 50
  • Seeing competitor climbs early
  • Measuring long-tail keyword movement
  • Diagnosing volatility beyond page two

Then stopping at Top 50 is not enough.

Bottom line

WhatsMySERP tracks only the Top 50. Positions 51–100 are incomplete or not consistently reported.

Ranktracker tracks the full Top 100 daily, with full history and no depth limits.

If you want complete visibility across the SERP journey, partial depth leads to blind spots.

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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