Is there anyway to find historical ranking for a specific keyword?
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for example - if i want to know who has ranked for the term "seo company" on google for the last 12 months (or there abouts), can it be done?
James
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I believe you can get some historical rankings data from SEMRush's Guru plan: http://www.semrush.com/prices.html. With that you should be able to piece something together.
But if you're just looking to see if specific competitors were ranking for your targeted terms in the last 12 months, the SEMRush Pro package would work.
-Trung
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Snap on the Searchmetrics! Amazing software.
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Short answer no, I don't believe so.
The best way to try and gain an insight into a competitor at a point in the past is use Google Trends and input the relative keyword and narrow it to your competitors location (if necessary).
Then use software such as Searchmetrics (you need an account but you can sign up for free) and type in your competitors URL relevant to the keyword.
This will at least give you a rough idea of how well they were ranking at the given time in the past. If there is anything else out there that does what you are asking I would love to know!
I hope this helps at least a little towards the info you are trying to get.
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None of the software I use can't
Moz, will tell you where you have ranked historically, but this is after you have started monitoring it.
Searchmetrics - tells you where you was the previous week
There will be some software out there, and I would love to know find some, but the ones I currently pay for don't
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