Well it wasn’t an easy answer because I wanted to give our customers a recommendation that I felt was at least as good as MasterSiteManager.

And while I never would have admitted it while we were online, we did have a competitor that offered a very similar service with some extra “bells and whistles” that MSM just didn’t have.

After testing all our competitors software personally, I kept coming back to one particular company because they simply offered the best tracking, ease of use, interface and pricing.

Yes they are  $5.00 more expensive then we were at the Starter level, but it offers some very cool features that we didn’t and is well worth the incremental price difference.

However, they do offer a free trial account that will let you track 1 URL and up to 10 keywords, which is all some people really need.

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Simply go to the MANAGE WEB SITES tab and look for a button that says ADD NEW URL.

A new window will appear where you will enter your data.

1 – The first field is your website or page URL.

This is the full URL of your website, like www.mydomain.com, or it could be the address of a social media page where your content lives. This might be a hub page or squidoo page for example.

2 – In the next field enter the name of your host provider or content host.

This could be the name of where you’re hosting a website like, hostgator.com or in the case of a social media site that’s hosting your content it could be something like Squidoo.com

3 – Next you’ll enter in the control panel login address for the hosting company or content host for this web property.

4 – The next field after that is where you’ll enter the name of the domain registrar for this site. For example GoDaddy or network.

If you’re entering a hub page or something like that into your account, you can leave this field blank.

5 – Ok, next up is you’ll want to enter the web address for the control panel of the domain registrar for the URL you are currently adding to your account.

Again if you’re adding a Squidoo lens or something like that to your account, you can leave this field blank.

6 – If you are parking a domain rather then hosting it somewhere, you can enter in the location of where it’s parked here.

Of course this might not apply to you if your website is active. If so just leave this blank.

Now, as you can see some of the site information fields are optional, like parking but you really want to make sure to at least enter the Site or Page URL, and Hosting control panel URL at the very least.

Otherwise you won’t be able to use your accounts “ one click to launch” feature. This feature gives you the ability to login to your web hosting, registrar, or content host control panels without having to open a bunch of new windows.

Now, once all the information is entered click the SAVE button.

The system will securely take the information you just entered and will populate your account automatically

On a side note, if you ever get stuck and don’t remember what a particular field is for while setting up a new web property, simply hover your mouse over the little blue question marks for an explanation of what you need to enter in the field.

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Adding keywords you wish to track and monitor in your MasterSiteManager.com SEO stats software is easy. Just follow the steps outlined in the video above and you are done. Adding new keywords takes less then 15 seconds!

If you are not keeping a log of the changes that you make to your site and SEO efforts, then you’ll always be behind the guy who does – and you’ll wonder why you can’t ever crack the top 10 in the serps. But the built in “Notes” feature in your Master Site Manager SEO monitoring account makes keeping a log, easy!

In essence, it will show you how effective your current SEO strategy really is, where your doing well and where you need to improve.

With this page you will be able to see “at a glance” the most important overview data for each one of the websites you are monitoring immediately.

We track PR, Back links from Google and Yahoo, how many of your sites pages are actually indexed in Google, Yahoo, Bing and Alexa too.

And though it carries less weight than it used to, we even track the Alexa ranking as well automatically.

As with other tabs in the system that offer monitoring functions, you are able to sort each column a number of different ways to suit your liking and to reduce the time that you need to spend searching for information.

Now, in the SEO STATS overview grid, Green numbers mean an increase in something, Red numbers mean a decrease, and black indicates no change.

By using this color code system and presenting all of the major monitoring indicators on the same screen, you’re able to immediately get a sense of what’s working and what’s not.

You’ll quickly be able to tell where your SEO efforts are paying off and where you need to get to work

But let’s say you want to drill down a little bit further.

For example, let’s say that you see an GREEN number in Yahoo back links column. This indicates that the number of back links that Yahoo is counting toward your site has increased. (Bo0 Yah!)

Simply click on any number you see in the grid and the system will launch a chart that displays that particular stat over time.

Now the real beauty of this is that now able to see in real time the effectiveness of any linking campaign over time. And the longer your site is in the system, the greater trend history you’ll develop.

Now to check other stats, simply click the “JUMP BACK to STATS” link at the top of the page, and the system will drop you back into the overview grid so you can check other ranking indicators or review other indicator trends.

Lastly, on the far right hand side you’ll see the KEYWORDS column.

Here you’ll see the number of keywords you’re tracking for that particular domain.

To view those keywords and their statistics simply hover your mouse over the word “VIEW” and click the link.

A new page will pop up that lists every keyword you’re currently tracking and your position for that Keyword in Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Once again you be able to click on any number in the keyword listings and have the system draws a trending chart that shows your position for a particular search engine for that keyword over time.

The bottom line is that you no longer have to spend an average of 15 to 20 minutes per URL several times a week trying to compile all of the SEO stats needed to be able to see the big picture of how well your websites are doing because we’ll do it for you automatically and have it ready every time you login.

If you’ve got multiple websites or you’re managing sites for clients, you just saved you a whole lot of time.

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Simply go to the “MANAGE WEB SITES” tab and look for a button that says ADD NEW URL.

You’ll see a pop-up window where you will enter in all of the URL information.

The first field is your website or page URL.

This is the URL of your website, like www.mydomain.com , or the address of a social media page where your content lives. This might be a hub page your squidoo page for example.

The next field is for the name of your Web host or the content host URL.

This could be the name of where you’re hosting your website like, host gator.com or if it’s a social media page that’s hosting your content it could be something like Squidoo.com

The next field is the name of the company who you’ve registered your domain name through. This could be GoDaddy or network solutions or enom.com for example.

Note: If you’re monitoring a hub page or something like that, you can just leave this field blank.

The next field is for the login URL of your domain registrar. Another way to think of this is that this is the control panel URL you use to login to your domain registrar that registered the domain name.

If you don’t know what this says you can leave this blank or don’t recommend it because if it’s blank you won’t be able to use your account one click launch feature login to your domain registrar or Web host.

The last field is where you have your domain parked. Of course this might not apply to you if your website is active in posted just leave this blank but if you register domain name and you’ve got the domain name park somewhere for some reason you can add that here.

Once all the information is entered click the SAVE button.

That set the system will automatically take this information and populate your account for you.

On a side note, if you ever get stuck and don’t remember what a particular field is for while setting up a new website simply hover your mouse over the little blue? Next to the field for an explanation of what you need to enter in the field.

Watch the video here