Use case

SEO Proxies for Rank Tracking and SERP Scraping

Check rankings, local packs and SERP features exactly as a searcher in that city sees them. Residential IPs with country and city targeting included, rotation per request for broad keyword sets, and sticky sessions when a check has to page through results as one visitor.

How it works

SEO Proxies, from the inside

Three things worth knowing about how SEO and SERP tracking actually works on this network, and what each one looks like from the inside.

Match

The right IP for the search job

Rotating residential for day-to-day rank tracking, premium residential when a search engine starts challenging the standard pool, and mobile when you need results as a carrier network sees them.

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Scale

One local check per city, at once

City targeting covers 1,400+ cities across 195+ countries, so a local SEO check runs from the city it's about rather than from wherever your server happens to be.

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Health

Fresh IPs when a SERP pushes back

Rotate a new address on every request, and on premium residential every IP is checked continuously for blocks and bans and swapped before it serves another query.

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How it works

Three steps, start to finish.

1

Pick the pool for the engine

Start rank tracking on rotating residential. Move to premium residential — our highest-trust segment — if a search engine starts answering with challenges, and use mobile when the job is how results look on a carrier network.

2

Set the location you're ranking in

City targeting is included on the residential and mobile pools, so a query for "plumber near me" is checked from the city whose results you care about.

3

Rotate or hold a session

A new IP per request for broad crawls, or a sticky session for anything that needs to stay logged in or paginate as one identity — the same toggle on the residential and mobile pools.

The guide

SEO Proxies, explained

What SEO proxies are for

An SEO proxy is an IP address you route search queries through so the results come back as a real searcher would see them, from the location you choose. Search results are personal and local: the same query returns a different map pack in Chicago than in Dallas, different shopping results in Germany than in the UK, and sometimes different organic positions on a mobile carrier than on a home connection. A rank tracker that asks from one data-centre address sees none of that.

Proxies also spread a large keyword set across many addresses. Search engines limit how many automated queries a single IP can make, so a team tracking thousands of keywords across dozens of locations either rotates addresses or gets throttled and challenged.

Which proxy type to use

Residential proxies are the default for search work. They are real household connections, so queries look like ordinary visitors and can be targeted down to a city. Rotate a new IP per query for broad tracking; that keeps any single address well under the rate a search engine notices.

Datacenter proxies are fast and cheap, but search engines recognise datacenter ranges and challenge them quickly, so they suit SEO jobs that don't touch the search engine itself: crawling your own site, checking competitors' pages, fetching robots.txt and sitemaps. Premium residential, the highest-trust slice of our pool, is for when standard residential starts drawing challenges at your volume. Mobile proxies sit behind carrier-grade NAT shared with thousands of subscribers, which makes them the most trusted addresses there are and the right choice when the question is how results look on a phone network.

Local rank tracking, done properly

For local SEO the location of the IP matters as much as the query. Target the city the business serves, keep the language and country parameters of the search consistent with it, and run each location as its own job. City targeting is included on the Loopway residential and mobile pools, across 1,400+ cities in 195+ countries, so a multi-location client can be checked from each of its markets.

When a check needs several pages of results, or a sequence of related queries, hold a sticky session — 10 minutes, 60 minutes or longer — so the whole check comes from one visitor instead of jumping between addresses mid-way.

Proxies or a SERP API?

A SERP API is a service that runs the query for you and returns parsed results; you pay per request. Proxies are the network layer underneath: you run your own scraper or rank tracker and pay for the traffic. Loopway sells proxies, not a SERP API. If you already use a rank-tracking tool that accepts proxies, or run your own scraper, proxies are usually far cheaper per query. If you want parsed results without maintaining a scraper, a SERP API is the simpler tool.

Either way, check the terms of the search engine you query and keep request rates reasonable. Our acceptable use policy sets out what the network may and may not be used for.

Built for SEO and SERP tracking

Run your SEO and SERP tracking job on it — free

Up to 250 MB of residential traffic with no card, country-to-city targeting on the residential pools, and rotating or sticky sessions set in the username.

What's included

Built for SEO and SERP tracking

The product capabilities that actually matter for this job, line by line.

01Local targeting
Country · city
Included on the residential and mobile pools — check a local pack from the city it belongs to.
02Rotation
Per request
A fresh residential IP for every query keeps each address far below a search engine's rate limits.
03Sticky sessions
Length you set
Hold one IP while a check pages through results or runs a sequence of related queries.
04Screening
Continuous
Premium residential addresses are checked for blocks and bans and swapped before they fail again.
05Carrier IPs
Real 4G / 5G
Mobile proxies check results from a real carrier network, the most trusted addresses there are.
06Site crawls
US datacenter
Datacenter IPs for crawling your own and competitors' sites, where speed and cost matter most.
On this network

Which product fits

Five products can carry SEO and SERP tracking traffic, each priced off the same live curve the dashboard charges from. Pick the one that fits the target.

Live

Residential

The default for day-to-day rank tracking and local checks.

Built for this50M+ pool, city targeting
$0.49/GBat 1.5 TB · billed per gigabyte
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Premium Residential

For search engines that challenge the standard pool at your volume.

Built for thisHighest-trust segment
$1.19/GBat 1.5 TB · billed per gigabyte
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Live

Mobile

Search checks from a real carrier network.

Built for thisReal 4G/5G carrier IPs
$1.19/GBat 1.5 TB · billed per gigabyte
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Live

Datacenter

Site audits and competitor crawls that don't touch the search engine.

Built for thisUS direct IPs, fixed per line
$3.45/dayat 90 days · 50 Mbps · unmetered bandwidth
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Not sure which one? Start with Datacenter and move up as the target gets harder to pass.See full pricing

The Loopway standard

No asterisks. Six things that are true on every plan.

01 · Pricing

The price you see is the price you pay

Every rate on this site is computed from the same price book checkout charges from. No hidden setup fees, no contracts, no sales call.

02 · Balance

Credit that never expires

Top up once and spend it on any of the nine networks, whenever you need it. Unused balance stays in your account.

03 · Speed

Credentials in seconds

Sign up, pick a plan and your endpoint, username and password are live before the checkout tab closes.

04 · Network

One gateway, every protocol

HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on every product, plus UDP on UDP Residential and Static ISP. Point your stack at one host.

05 · Control

Sessions on your terms

Rotate on every request or hold a sticky IP. Country, city, state and carrier targeting are set in the username.

06 · Support

Humans on chat, around the clock

Talk to people who run the network, not a ticket queue. Most questions are answered in minutes, any time of day.

FAQ

Straight answers

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IP addresses you route search queries through so results come back as a real searcher in a chosen location would see them. They let rank trackers check local results accurately and spread large keyword sets across many addresses instead of one.

Residential for anything that queries a search engine — they look like ordinary visitors and can be targeted to a city. Datacenter for crawling websites, including your own and competitors', where speed and price matter more than looking residential.

Yes. Country and city targeting are included on the residential and mobile pools, across 1,400+ cities in 195+ countries, so each location of a multi-location business can be checked from its own market.

No — we sell proxies, the network layer. Use them with your own scraper or any rank-tracking tool that accepts proxies. If you'd rather receive parsed results without running a scraper, a SERP API is the simpler tool.

Anything that accepts an HTTP(S) or SOCKS5 proxy with username and password — most rank trackers, crawlers and scraping frameworks do. Location and session settings go in the username, so no tool-specific integration is needed.

Only for tasks that need to stay logged in or paginate as one identity — hold an IP for a session. For broad, stateless work, rotate a new IP per request instead; both are one setting on the residential and mobile pools.

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