Advance Web Ranking allows you to query various search engines across multiple countries to find the current rankings.

I’ll tell you right now, Advanced Web Ranking is one of my favorite applications. It sets out to do one thing and one thing only – check rank and return results. No page critics, no forum or blog links, only ranking.

Starting a new project is as simple as selecting “Project” and “New Project.”

Much like other programs you are presented a list of engines you want to chose from, but unlike the others this one has a filter, so you can filter by name.

Only want to check your Google rank? Simple, type in Google in the filter box and you are returned only Google engines. What to look at only US engines? Change the filter type to country and type in “USA.”

Next you add your keywords, either manually entering them or importing them from various sources. You also do the same for the URLs you want to report on. Finally you give it a name and let it go.

This program also allows you to chart progress over time, and lets you see, at a glance, which terms have moved up or down.

A search of about 1000 sources (that means a combination of keywords and engines) took me about 15 minutes – similar to the rest. And you can watch your progress (if you’re really bored) as it tells you the progress for each and every search.

Also, depending on what version you get you can assign custom templates to the reports (For example, if you are a search marketing firm and want to use the tool to report on your clients’ progress) and you can even export the data to multiple formats, again depending on the version you purchase.