[Guide] Check your Google rankings for important keywords

How to check your Google rankings

Updated: March 30, 2026
Published: March 30, 2026

Lukas Rasmussen SEO Lead @ Morningscore.io

Key Takeaways

Monitoring your Google rankings is a vital part of any digital strategy, yet SEO as a discipline is often shrouded in mystery despite its importance and prevalence. If you aren’t already familiar with SEO, it can seem needlessly complicated.

But we at Morningscore believe that everyone can do SEO. Our mission is to make SEO as approachable as possible.

In this article, we will teach you how to find your Google rankings in Morningscore while holding your hand the whole time. We’ll also show you how to verify your ranking data and explain why tracking rankings alone isn’t enough in 2026.

What are Google rank keywords, and why are they ranked?

The first thing you will need to know about SEO is keywords. Keywords are the different words and phrases you type into Google, which is a huge part of SEO. When creating a piece of content, you will often do so with a specific keyword in mind.

When Morningscore shows you your Google rankings, they will be displayed in relation to a keyword. If you want to learn more about keywords, you can read our in-depth article on keywords.

It’s important to know how certain keywords rank on Google, as this can help you make informed decisions on where to improve your SEO content. According to Google’s guide to ranking systems, search evaluates “hundreds of billions of webpages” using multiple ranking signals, which means positions can shift frequently.

Knowing your Google rankings for important keywords is also essential for getting an idea of how your SEO is doing. If your important keywords are consistently ranking in the top 5 or top 10, then you are doing great with your SEO.

If your important keywords are mostly in the 30s or higher, you might not be going about your SEO efforts the right way, or you may be focusing on a market that is too oversaturated. In that case, looking for less competitive keywords might be a good strategy.

How to view your Google rankings in Morningscore

Viewing your keyword rankings is easy to do in Morningscore, and I will show you how in this guide. If you follow along step by step, you will learn how to check your keyword rankings in Morningscore, but also how to navigate and use various other features in the tool.

Making an account to check Google rank keywords

If you don’t have a Morningscore subscription, don’t worry. I will show you how to set up a free 14-day trial for Morningscore without requiring any credit card information.

Just type your information into the text field below:

Accessing your keyword overview

After creating your Morningscore account, you will need to wait a bit while Morningscore scans your website. Once the scan is complete, you will be redirected to the “Overview” page in Morningscore. From here, you can see a quick overview of all the different functions in Morningscore.

At the top of the page, there are many different features you can choose from. All of these features are very useful, but for now, we will be going to the “Keywords” section. If you are curious about the other features of Morningscore, feel free to play around with the tool or read our comprehensive introduction to Morningscore’s functions before continuing this guide on Google rankings.

If you are ready to move on, then click on the keywords tab.

Finding your Google rankings in the tool

Once you have navigated to the keywords section, you will see our “Rank tracker” tool. The rank tracker is a very useful tool where you can choose specific keywords of interest to be updated every day. This can be useful for many different purposes, some of which I will cover later. Before looking at the rank tracker, we are going to look at the Google rankings of all your keywords. To do this, we will go to the “All keywords” tab.

Now that we are in the “All keywords” tab, there are many interesting metrics to look at. While it might seem daunting at first, it is easy to understand once you know how it works, so I will go through all the different metrics on this page now. If you look at the picture below, you can see numbers corresponding to the different elements I will be mentioning.

Screenshot: anonymized example from Morningscore Rank Tracker. Verify notable ranking changes using Google Search Console About.

1. Keywords

Here you can see the specific keyword you are ranking for, as well as which specific page is ranking for that keyword.

2. Searches/Mo

This field shows an approximate number of searches this keyword will get each month. It isn’t possible to know exactly how many searches something will get in the future, so this is an approximation based on earlier search volumes.

3. Rank

This is the keyword ranking, which shows how your pages rank for that specific keyword. Congratulations! You now know where to find the rankings for your keywords.

4. Visits/Mo

This is an approximate number of visits your site will get from this keyword each month.

5. CPC

This point shows you how attractive the keyword generally is when it comes to paid ads.

6. Score/Mo

This is how much the keyword currently adds to your Morningscore.

And those are all the points in the “All keywords” screen. Now you know how to check your Google rankings for any of your keywords using Morningscore. If you want to know more about your keywords and how they rank on Google, then it’s a good idea to make use of the rank tracker tool in the keyword section.

Benefits of tracking your Google rankings

If you want to get more information about your keywords, then using the rank tracker on important keywords is a good way to do it. The Google ranks of the keywords you choose to track will be updated daily; that way, you will always be up to date on how your most important keywords are performing.

If you have tracked a keyword, you will also be able to view your ranking history for that keyword. This will show you how your Google rank on that keyword has changed over time.

Another function of the rank tracker is the ability to view who else ranks for your important keywords.

How we validate rank data

Rank data in Morningscore should be cross-checked against Google Search Console performance exports and business analytics to verify traffic and revenue impact for key ranking changes.

Understanding ranking factors and optimization

While tracking your Google rank keywords is essential, it’s equally important to understand what influences those rankings. Google uses hundreds of ranking signals.

When you’re working to improve your rankings, focus on creating helpful content that serves your audience first.

Closing words

Thank you for reading this guide to checking the Google rankings of your keywords. SEO is not a field where progress happens overnight. It can often take days to see progress in your keyword rankings.