Your NitroShock dashboard shows all your SEO projects, recent ranking changes, credit balance, and quick access to all tools in one centralized interface.
Your NitroShock dashboard shows all your SEO projects, recent ranking changes, credit balance, and quick access to all tools in one centralized interface. When you log in to NitroShock, the dashboard serves as your command center for managing multiple SEO projects, monitoring performance, and accessing the platform's full suite of features. Understanding how to navigate and utilize your dashboard effectively will help you maximize productivity and get the most value from your credits.
The NitroShock account dashboard is organized into a tab-based structure that groups related functionality together. You'll find the main navigation at the top of the interface, with seven primary tabs accessible from /account/:
Projects Tab: Your default landing page displays all active SEO projects in a card-based layout. Each project card shows the project name, primary domain, current keyword count, and recent ranking changes. This is where you'll spend most of your time managing ongoing client work or monitoring your own sites.
Tools Tab: Provides standalone access to NitroShock's SEO utilities without requiring a project context. You can perform quick keyword research, analyze any domain's backlinks, or run SERP analysis for competitive research. These tools are perfect when you need rapid insights before committing to a full project setup.
Reports Tab: Houses your generated PDF reports across all projects. You can view report history, download previous reports, and set up scheduled report generation for recurring client deliverables. All white-labeled reports created from any project are accessible here.
Billing Tab: Shows your current credit balance prominently at the top, with a detailed transaction history below. You can purchase additional credits, view usage patterns, and download invoices. The transparent pricing model means every credit expenditure is logged and visible.
Branding Tab: Configure white-label brand profiles for client reports. Create multiple branding profiles with custom logos, color schemes, company names, and contact information. This allows agencies to generate professional reports that match each client's brand identity.
Settings Tab: Manage account preferences including notification settings, API key generation, and default configurations. You can customize email preferences for rank check alerts, audit completion notifications, and team activity updates.
Team Tab: Available for team and agency accounts, this section handles team member invitations, role assignments, and project sharing permissions. Administrators can manage billing and access levels for all team members.
The sidebar navigation remains consistent throughout the platform, allowing you to switch between your account dashboard and individual project dashboards without losing context.
The dashboard provides real-time visibility into your most important SEO metrics without requiring you to drill into individual projects. Understanding these at-a-glance metrics helps you identify which projects need immediate attention.
Total Keywords Tracked: Displays the aggregate count of all keywords being monitored across all your projects. This number updates automatically as you add or remove keywords from tracking targets.
Position Changes: Shows a summary of ranking movements in the last 24 hours or week, depending on your check schedule. You'll see positive movements (keywords that improved ranking), negative movements (keywords that dropped), and unchanged positions. Color coding makes it easy to spot trends—green indicates improvements while red signals drops that may need investigation.
Active Projects: A count of all projects currently configured in your account. Clicking this metric takes you directly to the Projects tab for detailed management.
Credit Balance: Your available credits are prominently displayed in the top right corner of every page. This persistent visibility helps you monitor usage and plan credit purchases before running large operations like full site audits or bulk rank checks.
Recent Ranking Highlights: The dashboard surfaces your biggest ranking wins and losses. For example, you might see that "best CRM software" jumped from position 14 to position 4 for Project A, while another keyword dropped out of the top 100 for Project B. These highlights allow you to quickly celebrate wins or investigate concerning drops.
Audit Health Scores: If you've run recent site audits, the dashboard displays overall health scores for each project. These scores aggregate critical issues, warnings, and passed checks into a single percentage that indicates technical SEO health.
The project switcher is your primary navigation tool for moving between different client sites or monitored domains. Located in the top navigation bar, the switcher displays your current project context and allows instant switching without returning to the main dashboard.
Quick Project Access: Click the project name dropdown to see a list of all your projects. The list shows project names and primary domains, making it easy to identify the right project when managing multiple clients. Recently accessed projects appear at the top for faster navigation.
Search Functionality: For accounts managing dozens of projects, the search field filters projects in real-time as you type. Search works across project names and domains, so you can find "acme-corp" by typing either the company name or their domain.
Direct Project Navigation: Selecting a project from the switcher takes you to that project's Overview tab at /project/{id}/. From there, you can access project-specific features like Rank Tracker, Keywords, Site Audit, and Content Writer.
Context Preservation: The platform remembers your last visited tab within each project. If you were viewing the Rank Tracker for Project A and switch to Project B, then return to Project A, you'll land back on the Rank Tracker tab instead of starting over at Overview.
This seamless switching capability is particularly valuable for agencies managing multiple client accounts simultaneously, allowing you to respond to client questions or check specific metrics without losing your place.
The activity feed keeps you informed about automated processes, scheduled tasks, and system events across all your projects. Located on the right side of the dashboard, this feed provides chronological updates about actions you've initiated and their completion status.
Rank Check Notifications: When scheduled rank checks complete, you'll see notifications indicating which project was checked, how many keywords were processed, and significant position changes. For example: "Rank check completed for Project ABC - 47 keywords checked, 12 improved positions, 5 declined."
Audit Completion Alerts: Site audits can take several minutes for large sites. The activity feed notifies you when audits finish processing, allowing you to continue other work while crawls run in the background. Notifications include the URL audited and a summary of critical issues found.
Report Generation Status: When you generate client reports, especially scheduled recurring reports, the feed confirms successful PDF creation and delivery. This provides peace of mind that client reports went out as scheduled.
Team Activity: For team accounts, the feed shows relevant actions taken by other team members such as adding new keywords to shared projects, running rank checks, or generating reports. This transparency helps teams coordinate without duplicate work.
Credit Transactions: Major credit purchases or unusually large credit expenditures appear in the activity feed as a safeguard against unauthorized usage or accidental bulk operations.
The feed is filterable by activity type and project, allowing you to focus on specific events when troubleshooting or reviewing recent work. Activities older than 30 days are archived but remain accessible in your account history.
The quick actions menu provides one-click access to your most frequently used features, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple screens for common tasks. This menu is accessible from a button in the top navigation bar and follows you throughout the platform.
Add New Project: Launches the project creation workflow directly, prompting you for a project name, primary domain, and initial tracking targets. This is the fastest way to onboard a new client or monitor a new site.
Import Keywords: Opens a bulk keyword import interface where you can paste or upload lists of keywords to add to any project. Supports CSV format and accepts hundreds of keywords at once, with automatic duplicate detection.
Run Rank Check: Displays a list of all projects with an option to refresh all keywords for selected projects. You'll see the credit cost before confirming, based on the number of keywords and tracking targets involved.
Generate Report: Quick-starts the report generation process with a project selector, report type chooser, and date range picker. This is ideal when clients request impromptu reports outside your regular schedule.
Purchase Credits: Takes you directly to the credit purchase page in the Billing tab. Useful when you notice your balance running low and want to top up before running major operations.
New Brand Profile: Opens the branding configuration interface to create a white-label profile for a new client, configuring logo, colors, and company details.
The quick actions menu adapts based on your account type and recent usage patterns. Frequently used actions may be promoted, while rarely used features remain accessible through the full navigation.
Your credit balance is the most critical piece of information for managing your NitroShock account, and it's designed to be visible at all times. The credit display serves both informational and planning purposes, helping you budget usage and avoid interruptions.
Persistent Visibility: Your current credit balance appears in the top right corner of every page in the NitroShock platform. This persistent placement means you're never more than a glance away from knowing your available credits, whether you're in the account dashboard or deep in a project's site audit results.
Low Balance Warnings: When your credit balance drops below a threshold (customizable in Settings), the balance display changes color to amber, then red as you approach zero. This visual warning system helps prevent situations where you start a large operation only to run out of credits mid-process.
Usage Projections: Hovering over or clicking the credit balance reveals a tooltip showing your average daily usage and estimated days remaining at your current burn rate. This projection helps you plan credit purchases proactively rather than reactively.
Quick Top-Up: The credit balance display includes a "+" button that opens the credit purchase interface in a modal window. You can add credits without leaving your current page, maintaining your workflow while ensuring you have sufficient balance to complete current tasks.
Pre-Action Cost Preview: Before any operation that uses credits—rank checks, site audits, keyword research, content generation—NitroShock displays a confirmation modal showing exactly how many credits will be charged. This transparency means you're never surprised by credit usage and can make informed decisions about when to proceed or postpone operations.
Transaction History Access: Clicking the balance itself takes you to the Billing tab where you can review your complete credit transaction history, including purchases, usage, and remaining balance over time. This detailed view helps identify usage patterns and optimize your credit purchasing strategy.
The credit-based model eliminates subscription waste by ensuring you only pay for what you use. The prominent balance display and transparent cost previews are designed to give you complete control over your SEO tool spending.
What happens if I run out of credits during an operation?
Operations that use credits are completed atomically—the credits are reserved before the operation begins. If you don't have sufficient credits, the system will prevent you from starting the operation and prompt you to purchase more credits. You won't lose partial progress or be charged for incomplete operations.
Can I customize which metrics appear on my dashboard?
While the core dashboard layout is standardized, you can filter the activity feed by project and activity type, and the project cards in the Projects tab can be sorted by various criteria including last modified, keyword count, or project name. Widget customization is planned for future updates based on user feedback.
How often does the dashboard refresh with new data?
The dashboard displays real-time data for credit balance, project counts, and recent activity. Ranking data and audit scores update according to your scheduled check intervals or when you manually run checks. The page doesn't auto-refresh, but clicking the refresh icon in the activity feed pulls the latest notifications.
Is there a mobile version of the dashboard?
The NitroShock dashboard is built with responsive design and works on mobile devices, though the full feature set is optimized for desktop use. You can view projects, check rankings, and monitor credit balance from mobile browsers, but complex operations like bulk keyword imports and site audits are best performed on desktop.
What's the difference between the account dashboard and project dashboards?
The account dashboard at /account/ shows aggregate information across all your projects and provides access to account-wide features like billing, branding, and team management. Project dashboards at /project/{id}/ are specific to individual SEO projects and contain tools like Rank Tracker, Site Audit, and Content Writer for that particular site.
Now that you understand the dashboard layout and key features, you're ready to create your first project and start tracking rankings. Check out the Creating Your First Project guide to set up a new SEO project with tracking targets and keywords.
To get the most value from your credits, read the Understanding Credit Usage documentation that explains how different features consume credits and strategies for optimizing your usage.
If you're managing multiple clients, the White-Label Reports guide will show you how to configure branded report profiles and set up automated report delivery schedules that impress clients with professional deliverables.