Show keyword ranking on a web page automagically

Posted by stuart as , , ,

Whilst doing some preparation for my local SEO Rank renting project, I decided if I’m going to try to rent out the pages, it would be nice if potential “tenants” could see just by looking at the page, where it ranked for the keyword it was targeting (without me having to manually update the stats all the time).

Then it occurred to me that this sort of tool might have all sorts of other applications, as part of bigger projects.

So anyhoo, I knocked up this little script, all you need to do is edit the $keyword variable at the top of the script, then paste it in your web page where you’d like the ranking info to show.

You can see this script in action here, on the right hand side of the screen.

When I get the chance, I’ll update the script to allow you to check the ranking for multiple keywords on a single page.

So here it is: have fun!

<?

//Enter Your Keyword Here!

$keyword = “Whatever Keyword You Are Targeting For The Page“;

$search = strtolower($keyword);

$search = str_replace(” “, “+”, $search);

//Get the current URL so we can compare it to the search results

$url = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
//Do the google search thing, get the top 100 results for our keyphrase

$data = file_get_contents(’http://www.google.com/search?q=’ .$search. ‘&num=100′ );

$description= (’/<div class=g><h2 class=r><a href=\”(.+?)\” class=l/’);

preg_match_all($description,$data,$match);
echo ‘Google keyword rankings for this page<br>’;

//start counting, and work out what our ranking is

$count = 0;

foreach($match[1] as $value){

$count = $count+1;

//get the ranking and print to screen

if (stristr($value, $url)) {

echo $keyword. ‘: <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=’ .$keyword. ‘&num=100″>’ .$count. ‘</a>’;

}

}

?>

That is all!