If you're leaving SEOmonitor, the clock that matters starts when you cancel. Its terms of service say it plainly: "On termination: access ends; the Customer may export its data for 30 days, after which we delete or anonymise Customer Data." The help center goes a step further and tells you to export everything you need before you cancel.
So you get a month after cancelling, and that month is a hard deadline. Here's how to move from SEOmonitor, the agency SEO platform, to RankControl, and what to take with you inside that window. Every SEOmonitor detail comes from its help center, terms and pricing page, which I checked on September 26, 2026.
What comes with you when you switch from SEOmonitor
SEOmonitor exports well. Nearly everything has a CSV, API or Looker Studio route out, and the export tools have no limits while you're subscribed.
| In SEOmonitor | Can you take it? | Where it lands in RankControl |
|---|---|---|
| Daily rank history | Yes, CSV, Sheets or API | Your before-picture |
| AI Overview and AI Search tracking | Yes, through exports and the API | Tracked queries and baseline |
| Forecasts and objectives | Yes, CSV | Reference for targets |
| Competitor data | Yes, CSV | Your competitor list |
| Content Writer articles | Already published on your CMS | Link targets, found by a sitemap scan |
| Organic traffic data | Yes, CSV | Search Console stays with you anyway |
What you won't get is a day-by-day record of landing pages. The help center says exports carry "only the latest landing pages for the keywords, and not those that ranked on the days of the selected timeframe." You'll leave with your rank history, but not with which page held each position on each day.
How to export your data from SEOmonitor
Go through your campaigns in order of importance:
| If you... | Export this |
|---|---|
| Tracked rankings | Daily ranks, keyword groups and visibility for the full timeframe you want to keep |
| Tracked AI answers | AI Overview mentions and citations, plus ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity results if you had the AI Search add-on |
| Watched competitors | The competitor table with ranks, SERP features and visibility |
| Shared forecasts with a client or boss | Every scenario and objective |
| Care which page ranked | Notes on which page ranked at key dates for your top 20 keywords, since exports won't show it |
| Built keyword lists | Your Keyword Vault lists, the raw material for your new query list |
If you only get one thing done early, make it the landing-page notes. Everything else comes out in an export, and that history doesn't. Large exports run in the background from the Exports section, and small ones download from each module. If you'd rather script it, you'll find the API token under Settings, then Profile, and the help center calls API access free and unrestricted.
If you used SEOmonitor's Content Writer, your published articles already sit on your WordPress, HubSpot, Webflow or Shopify site. Save the list of URLs it published so you can track them from day one.
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Cancel without leaving a gap
When you're ready, go to the Billing section, open Manage Subscriptions, click the subscription and choose Cancel Subscription. You can also email [email protected]. Your access lasts until the end of the period you've paid for, so on annual billing, cancelling stops the renewal and you keep the rest of your paid year.
Your subscription renews automatically, and the terms say SEOmonitor "may not send a separate renewal reminder," so put the date in your calendar yourself. If you cancel and come back later, the help center warns of "a gap in data collection corresponding to the inactive period, which cannot be retroactively filled."
That's the reason to run both tools for a few weeks. Keep SEOmonitor tracking until RankControl's first weekly checks arrive, then cancel. Don't delete your profile until your exports are safe, since deletion is permanent and separate from cancelling. After that, remove SEOmonitor's access to Google Analytics and Search Console, and revoke its API token.
Check what depends on SEOmonitor
Anything that reads from SEOmonitor will break when you leave, and it's easy to overlook next to the exports:
| If you have | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Looker Studio dashboards built on its connector | They stop updating, so rebuild the ones you still need on your exported data or on Search Console |
| Google Sheets that use its add-on | They freeze at the last refresh |
| Scheduled email reports to clients or your boss | They stop, so tell the people who get them before the reports disappear |
| Scripts that call its API | They start failing once the token is revoked |
Go through this a week before you cancel, not the day after.
Keep your before-picture comparable
To compare before and after, you need to know that the two tools measure different things. SEOmonitor measures by keyword. Its AI Search tracking runs your existing Google keywords through ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity weekly, and its AI Overview tracking checks Google's answers daily. RankControl measures by query, with up to 50 questions written the way buyers ask them and checked weekly on six engines.
So choose your 50 with care. Start from the keywords where SEOmonitor showed you in AI Overviews or AI Search, and add the questions buyers ask around them. If you tracked "crm for small business," you might add "What's the best CRM for a 10-person sales team?" and "Is HubSpot or Pipedrive better for a small team?" Those are closer to what people type into ChatGPT.
On each one, note whether you were mentioned or cited, the same split both tools report. For AI Overviews, SEOmonitor also records where your URL sat among the cited sources, so write that position down too.
If you report to clients, an r/SEO_tools_reviews thread from this month is worth a look. An agency marketer there asked for ranking software that works for client reporting rather than a dashboard full of keywords. Put your before-picture through the same test and keep the numbers someone will read.
What's the best SEO ranking report software for client work?
I'm looking for SEO ranking report software that's actually good for client reporting, not just tracking keywords in a dashboard. Main things I care about are accurate rankings, clean reports, location and device tracking and being able to...
Where everything lands in RankControl
Once you're in RankControl, start with Brand Control. It reads your live site and drafts your voice, products, buyers and competitors for you to correct. If you set a custom writing style in SEOmonitor's Content Writer, add those rules as guideline rules, along with up to three of your best articles as style references.
Next, bring in your tracked queries and up to 10 competitors from the SEOmonitor export. AI visibility tracking checks each query weekly on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Google AI Mode. That gives you three engines SEOmonitor doesn't track: Claude, Grok and AI Mode.
Then connect a publishing destination and run the sitemap scan, so your new articles link into the ones Content Writer published. The content engine plans titles from your buyers' questions and writes each article against the pages already ranking, up to 100 pages a month. Each published page gets its rankings checked weekly on Google and Bing, along with whether an AI Overview cited it. The analytics also bring in your Search Console data and count visits from AI crawlers and from people who clicked through from an AI answer.
If you rely on classic rank tracking, SEOmonitor goes further there. It tracks thousands of keywords daily, forecasts traffic and reports across client portfolios, while RankControl tracks rankings for the pages it publishes.
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The switch from SEOmonitor, step by step
| Step | What to do | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Export rank history, AI tracking, competitors and forecasts | 45 to 90 minutes |
| 2 | Note landing pages for your top keywords at key dates | About 20 minutes |
| 3 | Start RankControl's 7-day free trial and let setup read your site | About 15 minutes |
| 4 | Correct the brand draft, add guideline rules and style references | 30 to 45 minutes |
| 5 | Add tracked queries and competitors, then connect your CMS | About 45 minutes |
| 6 | Run both tools until RankControl's first weekly check lands | One week |
| 7 | Cancel SEOmonitor, revoke its API token and Google access, and keep your exports |
That's about four hours of your time, plus a week where both tools run.
What changes after the switch
You'll pay differently:
| SEOmonitor Starter | SEOmonitor Pro | RankControl | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | €99/mo | €299/mo | $400/mo, one plan |
| Included | 1,000 keywords | 3,000 keywords | 100 pages, 50 tracked queries on six engines, publishing |
| ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity tracking | Not available | Add-on, €19 per 1,000 keywords | Included |
Your weekly routine changes too. SEOmonitor checks AI Overviews daily and RankControl checks every engine weekly, so you'll get fewer data points and should read them as a trend. Instead of a keyword table, you'll see which engines named you and where competitors were cited instead. A weekly email brings you new citations, ranking moves and visits from AI answers.
You can run all of this by hand: write the pages, publish them, pitch the links and check six engines every week. Or RankControl's agents can run it every month while you focus on your product. If you want the two tools head to head, see RankControl vs SEOmonitor.
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