Proxies for SEO. Rankings from your customer's seat.
A search result is personalised to who and where you are, so the ranking you see from your desk is not the ranking a customer in your target city sees. Residential IPs let you check the real, localised result.
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ResidentialRecommended for SEO & rank tracking
Real-device IPs in 200+ countries
- Rotating or sticky sessions
- State, city and ISP targeting on Premium
- Pay per GB, balance never expires
- HTTP and SOCKS5
From
$0.44/ GB
Web Scrapers
Structured JSON from one REST call
- Proxies, retries and parsing handled
- Blocked or errored calls are not billed
- Pay per call from your balance
- No subscription, no monthly minimum
From
$1.49/ 1,000 calls
- Residential proxies
- The tool for a clean, localised search: a real IP in the city or country you rank for, so the results reflect that location rather than your own history and network.
- Scraper API
- For rank tracking at scale, the search-results endpoint returns structured positions without you fighting the consent walls and layout changes yourself.
Search is localised, and location comes from the IP
Search engines tailor results to the searcher's location, and they read that location primarily from the IP address. A rank checked from your office reflects your office, not the market you are trying to rank in, which makes it the wrong number to report or optimise against.
Checking from a residential IP in the target location fixes the vantage point. The results come back the way they render for someone actually there, which is the only ranking that means anything for a local campaign.
Consistency matters more than volume
Rank tracking is a repeated, comparable measurement, so the priority is a stable, clean vantage point rather than raw throughput. A residential exit that reads as an ordinary local searcher gives results you can trust and compare week to week.
At scale, a scraper API built for search results absorbs the parts that break hand-rolled tracking, consent redirects, shifting layouts, the moving target of what one page of results even contains, so the positions you record stay consistent as the surface changes.
How to set up proxies for SEO and rank tracking
- 1
Exit where the customer is
Use a line in the country you rank in, or in the city on Premium for local results.
- 2
Search without a history
No login and no old cookies: a fresh session shows the results a new visitor gets.
- 3
Keep the vantage point the same
Check from the same country or city every time, so this week's position compares with last week's.
- 4
Record the whole result
Store the position, the URL that ranked and the time, not the position alone.
Rank tracking: what goes wrong, and the fix
- The results show the wrong city
- Search engines read the location from the address and sometimes from the browser. Use a city line and a fresh browser profile.
- A consent page instead of results
- Some regions show new visitors a consent page first. Accept it within the session, or use the search endpoint of the scraper API.
- CAPTCHAs after a few searches
- Too many searches from one address. Rotate lines, slow down, or move the volume to the scraper API.
Setup guides and tools
FAQ
SEO & rank tracking questions, answered
Why are my rankings different from what a customer sees?
Because search results are localised and personalised, largely off your IP address and history. From your own connection you see your results, not the market's. A residential IP in the target location shows the ranking a customer there actually gets.
Can I track rankings in another country?
Yes. Geo-target a residential proxy to that country or city and the search engine returns results as they render there. This is the only reliable way to monitor rankings in a market you are not physically in.
Should I use a proxy or a search API?
For a handful of terms, a residential proxy and your own checker is fine. For tracking many keywords across locations, a scraper API built for search results is steadier, because it handles the consent walls and layout churn that break hand-rolled tracking.
Related: Web scraping, Market research.