SERPs.com was a platform that provided marketing teams with rank tracking software. SEO agencies could white label the product (removing a product’s original branding and replacing it with their own brand name), generate charts and ranking histories, and share a simple digital dashboard with clients. However, attempting to find SERPs.com today shows that the site is no longer active. (Why the name SERPs.com? SERP stands for Search Engine Results Pages—the results that come up after you search for something in Google or Bing. Thus, the SERPs are near and dear to a search engine optimizer’s heart). What happened to the service? We attempt to find out by following the history of SERPs.com and identifying some of the services the company offered. 
The History of SERPs.com
Scott Krager, who professed a “love affair” with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), established SERPs.com in 2012 in Portland, Oregon (Source). The company described its goal as “to build the most powerful platform to help SEOs understand, measure, test, and prove their strategies and work to anyone” (Source). Krager says that he started working full-time on the website in 2012 when he had become “tired of managing the SEO of [his] portfolio of websites via piles of spreadsheets. It was laborious and inefficient.” He adds, “So I started mapping out software that would automate the process of analyzing keywords and monitoring SEO performance and display that data in a simple, easy-to-digest format” (Source). To achieve this goal, the company tracked over 200,000 keywords and thousands of websites daily. At its height, SERPs.com's had customers in over 93 countries (Source).SERPS.com Reviews
If testimonials the company received from agencies and ecommerce sites that used its services are anything to go by, you could say that SERPs.com was able to live up to its promise. Brian W. Gibson, a Senior Software Developer at the American ecommerce firm, Wayfair.com, is one of those who were impressed. He says, “One of the things I love most about SERPs.com is that it isn’t trying to be an all-in-one SEO solution that peppers me with questionable automated SEO recommendations.” Gibson adds, “Instead, SERPs.com gives me the data I need to do my own analysis” (Source). Another client who was happy with the SERPs’ service was Simon Penson, the founder and managing director of a content marketing company called Zazzle Media. Penson says he decided to engage SERPs.com after trying many SEO tools but still felt that he “wanted a more reliable yet simple daily tracking system that had built-in flexibility.” He adds, “SERPs is working brilliantly, and we see no reason why we would ever have to create our own system as a result” (Source).SERPs.com Services
The reviews from agencies show that many were happy with the service provided by SERPs.com. But what were the specifics of this service? We look at some of them below:Keyword Rank Checker Software
The keyword rank checker software enabled customers to get current ranks, with changes in the rankings, since the time a particular keyword started being tracked. The website promised, “SERPs show your current rank, alongside changes in rankings since yesterday, last week, last month, and since you started tracking the keyword. It's the rank tracker you've always wanted” (Source). According to SERPs.com, one of the reasons why its keyword rank checker software was useful is that it integrated with Google Analytics. This enabled the user to determine "exactly which keywords and rankings are sending [their] website the most organic traffic each day.” It also provided users with the ability to plot a graph showing rankings and traffic to see the link between organic traffic and ranking position (Source).Local rank tracking software
According to SERPs, the local rank tracking software enabled SEOs to track rankings by city or zip code. Additionally, customers could also separate ranking results by location so that each area’s results could be analyzed independently. It provided the capacity to track international rankings for over 100 countries (Source).SEO testing software
The SEO testing software was a simple marketing tool to allow agencies to show correlations between strategies that they implemented and results in search engines. For example, when you launched a new article, you could configure SERPs.com to track how the piece ranked over time and how much organic traffic the content began to attract (Source).Keyword research
Users had access to a free keyword research tool. (Keywords are the search queries that users of search engines like Google or Bing search for. For example, if you went to Google and searched for “mechanic near me”, your keyword is a mechanic near me). The keyword research tool provided data on what keywords users searched for, how often they searched for them, and how that varied by geographic location.