One of the best rewards for hard work is to see the outcome with your own eyes. The same rule applies to SEO just as easily as cleaning a house, building a car, or any other work you do for yourself. However, unlike the readily apparent results from those other tasks, seeing the results of good SEO is a little bit harder.
Luckily for us, several companies decided to create solutions to this problem, such as WebCEO and Caphyon’s Advanced Web Ranking. Both of these programs are excellent tools for tracking your way up popular search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask.com. They are certainly much faster than getting a list of keywords, a list of search engines, and manually running through each page of results until you have your analysis, but they also provide detailed tools to see your progress over time as your rank [hopefully] increases.
Of those two programs,I personally prefer Advanced Web Ranking due to it’s cleaner interface, more advanced reporting and output tools, and well designed scheduler. AWR also has a great feature to track multiple websites for the same keywords, which is very useful due to the fact that well implemented SEO often involves multiple websites linking to and reinforcing one another.