When data is captured
Overnight, US Eastern time, on a fixed schedule: database keywords every two days, keywords in your markets every day. Keywords you add are captured right away.
Search results move during the day. A page captured at 3 a.m. one day and at 3 p.m. the next would show differences that came from the clock, not from the market. JustRanks therefore captures every keyword in the same window of the night, US Eastern time, so that one capture is comparable with the next.
How often
- Keywords in the database: every two days.
- Keywords in your markets: every day.
- Keywords you just added: right away, without waiting for the night; first results usually appear within the hour. After that they follow the schedule above.
A keyword that sits in several markets, or in the markets of several customers, is captured once, and everyone sees the same capture.
A keyword that was already in the database moves to daily captures from the night after you add it to a market.
When new data shows up
A night's captures appear in the Explorer and in your markets by the morning, US time. The newest column of the heatmap reads "In progress" while its captures are still coming in, and "Next capture: tonight" tells you when the next one is due.
A capture that fails is retried the same night; if it still fails, the keyword is picked up again the next night. A failed capture never counts against a product: that keyword simply has no value for that day.
Days and two-day columns
The keyword heatmap shows one column per capture. Where keywords were captured every two days, a column covers two days ("Sep 27–28"); where they were captured daily, it covers one ("Oct 2"). When a market switches to daily captures, a thin line marks the first daily column: "Tracked daily from here". Periods longer than 60 days are shown by week.
After a trial or subscription ends
When a trial or subscription ends without a new subscription, the account's markets keep daily captures for 7 more days and are then captured every two days, like the rest of the database. See The free trial.
No capture time to choose
The schedule is the same for everyone and cannot be set per account. That is deliberate: with one schedule, every customer looking at a keyword sees the same history.