SerpBear

SerpBear is an open-source self-hosted SEO rank tracker that watches how your domains rank for chosen keywords across Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo. Instead of paying a commercial rank-tracking service per keyword and per location — costs that scale linearly with portfolio size — SerpBear lets you track as many domains and keywords as your VPS can handle, keeping the historical rank archive on infrastructure you control. The Next.js dashboard renders ranking history charts, daily movement summaries, and competitor comparisons in a clean UI suitable for in-house SEO teams, agencies, and indie sites alike.

Common Use Cases

SEO consultants and agencies run SerpBear as the rank-tracking backend for client portfolios, exporting branded CSV reports and embedding chart screenshots into monthly retainer deliverables without paying per-keyword SaaS fees that erode margins. In-house SEO teams at SaaS, e-commerce, and content companies track every priority keyword across mobile and desktop SERPs in their target countries, with notifications firing into Slack or email when key terms drop out of page one. Indie site operators and content creators monitor their own portfolio of niche sites, catching algorithm updates and content decay early enough to react. Affiliate marketers run SerpBear across many domains simultaneously, comparing ranking trajectories to inform where to invest content and link-building budget. Local-SEO operators use city-targeting to track how a chain of branches ranks in each region, pulling per-location reports for franchise owners. Privacy-conscious teams self-host SerpBear specifically to keep their keyword strategy and ranking data out of third-party SaaS analytics graphs that may share aggregated insights with competitors.

Key Features

• Daily SERP position tracking across Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo from a single dashboard
• Per-keyword history charts with movement summaries and configurable date ranges
• Mobile and desktop SERP tracking as separate keyword entries to catch device-specific differences
• Country, language, and city targeting for localized SERPs reflecting real-world geographic results
• Google Search Console integration adding impressions, clicks, and CTR per tracked keyword and discovered query
• Email and webhook notifications on ranking shifts beyond a configurable threshold
• CSV export of keyword rankings, history, and Search Console metrics for external reporting and BI integration
• API for programmatic keyword management, ranking queries, and notification wiring from external systems
• Unlimited domains and unlimited keywords — no per-keyword licensing or seat-based pricing tiers
• Multiple SERP scraper backends (third-party scrapers and proxies) configurable via the admin UI
• Sticky session and API-key authentication for protecting the dashboard and API behind your reverse proxy
• Lightweight Next.js + SQLite stack with a single persistent volume for trivial backup and restore

Why deploy SerpBear on Hostinger VPS

Running SerpBear on a Hostinger VPS gives SEO teams, agencies, and indie operators a private rank-tracking backend that scales with their domain portfolio without per-keyword pricing tiers. Dedicated CPU and disk on a VPS handle daily SERP fetches across hundreds of keywords without the rate-limited shared backends of free SaaS plans, and persistent volume storage keeps years of ranking history durable across container restarts and host upgrades. Because the data set is yours rather than a third-party service's, historical archives, exports, and API access stay available indefinitely — even if the underlying SaaS market shifts. Combined with Traefik-based HTTPS routing, the dashboard URL is reachable from any device while staying TLS-encrypted, and the public-app-URL configuration ensures the Next.js frontend renders correct absolute URLs behind the proxy. For agencies in particular, hosting SerpBear on a Hostinger VPS means a single instance can serve all client domains with consistent branding, branded CSV exports, and no platform fees that compete with the agency's own pricing.