About us

Our mission

	Founder - David Mercer David is a well known author of software development and programming books. Most recently he has completed several acclaimed titles in open source web development, writing on technologies such as Drupal and osCommerce. His works have been published and sold globally and translated into many languages including French, Japanese, German, Spanish, Greek and Polish. It was after the publication of his first solo title that RankTracer was created in an effort to keep track of how the book was performing. Since then he has overseen much of RankTracer's development and continues to manage the site today.

- to provide a cost-effective, unique and powerful tracking and analysis service that provides timely and valuable market related information
- to create a self-sustaining stream of revenue for our clients by marketing and promoting the books and products tracked with us
- to provide free tools, information and software to help track, promote
and sell products through Amazon

Our History

RankTracer began, in 2006, as a small PHP script that queried Amazon on an hourly basis. Within a few months, a basic tracking and graphing service was released to the public. By the end of 2007, RankTracer had a built in sales estimation engine, a reporting and alert service as well as several free tools for researching product information on Amazon.

After a redesign of the user interface in 2008, along with the addition of several powerful new features, RankTracer began to attract a small community of regular clients. With a burgeoning community came new suggestions and feature requests and the pace of development and refinement of the service quickened.

By early 2009, RankTracer was attracting as many new customers in a month as it did in all of its first year of operation. A community network service for members was added along with a suite of free tracking and promotion widgets.

With more than a thousand published authors, publishers, editors, celebrities, manufacturers and business leaders utilizing RankTracer each day, and traffic volumes that double every quarter, RankTracer is set to grow into the de facto tracking and analysis service for the publishing and online retailing industries.