Unlinked Brand Mentions Finder

JacoMay 25, 202030 June 202084

Finding unlinked brand mentions and link opportunities on Google has never been so easy with this free SEO tool!

A free SEO tool to check Google search results for unlinked brand mentions, built into a Google Sheet. It looks at the top 100 Google web search results, crawls each page, extracts all links from each page, and checks each one for a link to the domain in question. Help me make it better!

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1. Currently we only return 10-50 results from Google due to a recent update on their side. We are working on a solution to this issue and will release a new version as soon as the problem is fixed.

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Jaco 2 December 2016 - 1:21 pm

Hi Guys, Google has blocked search requests from sheets, which is causing this sheet to not work anymore, at least sometimes. Currently looking for a workaround :).

Mace 6 December 2016 - 2:15 am

Has a workaround been found yet? Dying for this tool to work

Jaco 6 December 2016 - 12:41 pm

Hi Mace, very close will be releasing a new version of the tool shortly!

2ablel5abar 18 March 2016 - 12:17 pm

I’m having the same issue. I’ve been trying to use it for a few days now and still cant get it to work. Is there a bug?

Ben 19 January 2016 - 1:36 am

Hey, Awesome tool! But I can't get it to work anymore :( Is there a fix? Cheers!

Jaco 13 December 2016 - 10:19 pm

Yes, version 2.0 fixes the issues with the previous version and IMPORTXML.

Kyle 11 January 2016 - 6:24 pm

Hey Sean, Is this tool still working? Constantly getting an error in cell D5: Error Could not fetch url: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=&start=0 Appreciate any help! This tool is incredible! -Kyle

Hi Kyle, this has been fixed.

Kyle 6 January 2016 - 10:00 pm

Hi Sean, Is this still working? Have been trying for the past few weeks and no results will load. No sure if this helps, but I'm getting this message in cell D25: Error Could not fetch url: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=mantelligence -site:mantelligene.com&start=0 Would really appreciate any help or a tool you recommend instead. This has been SUPER helpful for building my site's authority! -Kyle

Joseph Spadaro 9 December 2015 - 7:56 am

Hello there, I just want to say "Excellent Tool". This tool is really helpful for our company. Waiting for some more Awesome gadgets from your site.

Samantha 28 September 2015 - 3:51 pm

Hey Sean, Awesome tool! Noticing the same issue as others above though - the doc processed my query once but not any other time. What am I doing wrong?

Vincent 1 September 2015 - 7:27 pm

Hi Sean, Found out the problem was due to the captcha from Google. I was playing too much with all your ranktank stuff I guess :) but there's no fallback in this google doc for captcha (and also no option to pick a google domain, that would be awesome too). Vincent

Sean Malseed 20 September 2015 - 10:04 pm

Hah :) The IP address it uses isn't yours, it's a Google internal IP address. How did you see it was a captcha?

Victor 3 August 2015 - 10:29 pm

I was using this to great success but now it's not working for the projects I was using it with. Is there a tutorial to rebuild it?

Scott 3 April 2015 - 3:28 am

Hey there, I inputted my info but nothing happened. I also tried the info already populated but nothing happened as well. What do I need to press to make it execute?

Dan 12 May 2015 - 1:14 pm

I'm having the same issue. I've been trying to use it for a few days now and still cant get it to work. Is there a bug?

Matt Dimock 17 June 2015 - 1:48 am

I'm seeing the same exact issue. Made my own copy, changed out root domain and search query, but the tool isn't processing.

Sean Malseed 17 June 2015 - 2:30 pm

Hey, could you share your sheet with me with edit privileges? I'll take a look - sean@circlerank.com

Samantha Pena 28 September 2015 - 3:59 pm

Hey Sean, really awesome tool - thanks for building this. However, I'm seeing the same exact issue. It processed once for me, but then I tried processing again for a different query and nothing is showing. Did you discover the problem? If so, how can I get it to work?

Franco 13 July 2015 - 4:31 pm

I'm having the same issue. I even tried the example used in the video, and am getting no response. Nothing is happening. Was a solution for this ever found?

Sean Malseed 19 July 2015 - 9:59 pm

Hey Franco, what OS are you on? I checked OSX 10.10.3 and Windows 8.1, and they're working. P.S. we're neighbors.

Sarah William 13 March 2015 - 7:39 pm

Sounds great! Thank you very much

Matt 12 March 2015 - 2:28 pm

Great tool! Is there any way to change the localisation of the Google search. i.e. to look at Google.co.uk results?

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Dope 19 February 2015 - 4:45 pm

Thanks broo, this tool rocks!!!!

How to Turn Brand Mentions into Links in Less Than 15 Minutes - Automotive SEO 11 February 2015 - 5:33 pm

[…] RankTank’s Unlinked Mention Finder is a free tool that taps into Google and uses Google Docs to create a spreadsheet of results that show up for a specific query and allows you to check if that site links to your site or not. […]

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Peter 29 January 2015 - 4:37 pm

Hi Sean, When I first open the sheet it works and I see all the mentions appear in red but before any of them really have a chance to turn green they just disappear. Refreshing the page or changing any of the site or query info does nothing. Any Idea why?

Sean Malseed 29 January 2015 - 6:58 pm

Wow, that's weird. Could you share the sheet you're using with me with edit privileges? sean@circlerank.com

Gabe 18 December 2014 - 3:59 pm

This is a really cool tool, but my spreadsheet didn't seem to work properly. I get the following error message: Error: Could not fetch url: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q="massage"&start=0 Is there something I am doing wrong? I input the domain url without the "www." and then input a search term, but it doesn't run. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sean Malseed 19 December 2014 - 1:44 pm

Hey Gabe, thanks for trying out the tool! Sometimes Google just times out. When that happens, you should cut & paste your URL back into the cell. That forces the sheet to retry.

Pedro Menezes 12 December 2014 - 5:15 pm

Really awesome tool dude! Cant wait for more cools things for SEO´s! One Question - Can I change to see the 500 results on Google instead of the 100?

Jabronson 30 December 2014 - 9:52 pm

Looks like you can set how many results pages you want to see. Great tool! It'd be great to limit based on date, but that might be a bit complex.

Sean Malseed 2 January 2015 - 10:03 pm

Thank you! Date would be a bit tough :)

Wiep 5 January 2015 - 1:58 pm

Just add [&tbs=qdr:] to the formula, with 'd' for results from the past 24h, 'w' for last week and 'm' for last month :)

Wiep 5 January 2015 - 2:20 pm

Oh, and add [& ",lr:lang_1"& B5 & "&lr=lang_" & B5] for language filtering, with the language (en/de/nl/ whatever) in B5. Very nice tool, btw :)

Sean Malseed 12 January 2015 - 5:06 pm

Thank you!!

jackson 24 February 2015 - 10:55 pm

Thank you!

Tom 20 August 2014 - 2:47 pm

Excellent tool, thanks! This really helps with link outreach and rep management tasks. Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with. :-)

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