That tells you where you are in the rankings for a given keyphrase (up to position 500 or something). I've used nichebot, but I don't appear where it seems to think I am?
Why would you want to check your ranking up to the 500th position? Ranking at #80 or #400 is the same, you still won't get any visitors
http://www.mcdar.net/ is also very good, there is a lot of talk about it on the "other tools" section on these forums. JP
http://www.googlerankings.com/ is a good tool for that. You have to give it your Google API key now, however.
I already replied to your post (same topic) on Searchen, but here it is again too in case you see this first...and also because it may be helpful to others. Advanced Web Ranking is great (advancedwebranking.com).
To find out progress in serps. I need to know if I'm making positive moves in the serps. I'd have thought that would be pretty important info to know.