Canadian Data Solutions GEO Ranking Tracker

GEO Ranking Tracker asks the questions your buyers ask AI assistants and shows you the actual answers, engine by engine: is your company mentioned, is your website cited, which position are you in, who else is named. Not a score alone; the answer itself, kept from every check so you can see what changed and why. It tracks the same for organic rankings on Google and Bing, featured snippets and People Also Ask, and alerts you when something moves.

The free plugin is a complete tracker, with nothing in it capped or switched off:

• As many projects, questions and keywords as you like, plus the Company ABC sample so every screen is filled in before you add a key
• Gemini and Google AI Overviews, checked daily, weekly or monthly, with up to five runs per question, buyer personas and several locations
• Visibility by engine, the question heatmap, Movers, Organic Rankings and Alerts
• Featured snippets and People Also Ask for every keyword, with one click to track a question you are missing
• Real costs: every call is priced from the tokens it used and the plan your key is on, so the free tiers show as $0.00
• A Getting Started page and a setup checklist that ticks itself off
• Backup and restore: one file holds everything the plugin stores, made weekly by itself; restoring it is also how you move to a new server

It runs on your own API keys and can run at no cost: Google AI Studio offers a free Gemini tier and SerpApi includes free searches every month. The plugin reads your plan from each provider (SerpApi reports it; Gemini shows its tier by whether live search is allowed) and carries a price list for every model it can use, so no price or allowance ever has to be typed in. On Gemini’s free tier the answers come from the model without live web search; add billing to the Google project and Gemini searches the web as it answers (5,000 searches a month included). Model names are checked against each provider and updated by the plugin when a provider retires one.

GEO Ranking Tracker Pro is a separate add on sold on candat.com; it is not part of this plugin and nothing here waits for it. It brings seven more engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot), judge scoring, AI written suggestions with drafts, PDF reports, Site Readiness For AI with one click publishing, On Page SEO, and the Google Search Console and Google Analytics connection. See the Upgrade To Pro screen inside the plugin.

External Services

This plugin sends the questions you enter to two services you choose, using your own API keys, and stores their answers on your site. Nothing is sent until a key is saved, and nothing is sent anywhere else.

Google Gemini API (Google AI Studio)
What it is for: the AI answers. Each question in your project is sent to the Gemini API and the answer comes back and is stored on your site.
What is sent and when: the question text, the persona wording if you use personas, and your project’s brand facts, every time a check runs (on the schedule you set, or when you press Run Check Now). When you save or test a key, and once a day, the plugin also asks Gemini for its current model list with that key.
Gemini API Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy

SerpApi
What it is for: Google AI Overviews and the organic rankings on Google, Bing and Yahoo, plus featured snippets and People Also Ask.
What is sent and when: each question and keyword in your project, with the location and language you chose, every time a check runs. When you save or test a key, and once a day, the plugin reads your SerpApi account’s plan and searches used, so costs show correctly.
SerpApi Terms of Service, SerpApi Privacy Policy

The publisher’s website, candat.com (optional, off by default)
What it is for: a newer price list. The list of what each provider charges per call ships inside the plugin; the publisher keeps a current copy at https://www.candat.com/?cls_data=geo-ranking-tracker-pro&file=prices.
What is sent and when: nothing about your site, your keys or your data; a plain download of that public JSON file. It happens only when you press Refresh Prices under Settings, Costs, or once a day if you tick “Check the publisher for price updates once a day” there, which is unticked until you tick it.
Canadian Data Solutions Privacy Policy

Source Code

Every PHP, JavaScript and CSS file in this plugin is hand written source; nothing is compiled or minified, so there are no build tools and the files in the plugin are the files to read and change. The one bundled library is Chart.js 4.5.1 (admin/assets/chart.umd.js, MIT licence, licence text beside it), whose source is at https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js.