Pull the SERP a shopper in that city actually sees. Rank trackers fail when they query Google from one office IP or a datacenter node.
Recommended: city-level rotating residential, one IP per keyword check. Use Web Scraping API only when you want rendered SERP HTML without running a tracker.
Core keywords across countries without flying staff.
Show clients the local pack their customers see.
People Also Ask and snippet tests per locale.
Track rivals without rate-limiting your corp IP.
This is not catalog crawling. Volume is modest; geo accuracy is everything. Mobile SERPs are a separate job (mobile proxies).
A DE VPN is not Berlin. Local packs move by city.
Personalization from the office account pollutes client reports.
Thousands of queries from one IP get soft-blocked.
Desktop residential will not match mobile-first results.
You may only need raw HTML a few thousand times a month.
Bing, Yahoo JP, Naver each treat ASN differently — still start residential.
Recommended: rotating residential with city filters. Alternative: Web Scraping API Google plugin or render=true when you do not operate a rank tracker.
| Product | Billing | Use it when… |
|---|---|---|
| Residential · Rotating Recommended | Pay per GB | Recommended — daily rank pulls, one residential IP per query, city targeting. |
| Web Scraping API | Credits · pay per success | Alternative — rendered SERP or Google Search plugin, no tracker to maintain. |
Keep Ahrefs-style or in-house parsers.
No tracker, occasional audits.
Usually no — you want a fresh residential IP per query.
Buy mobile rotating, not this residential pack.
City-level residential. Country VPN is not enough.
Possible on aggressive schedules — slow down; do not switch to datacenter.
Trackers at volume are usually cheaper per GB; API is cheaper for ad-hoc rendered checks.
Rotating residential with a city filter is the default. Skip the other eight SKUs.