01.15.07

Keeping an Eye on Your Search Engine Rankings

Posted in Blogging for Profit at 5:45 pm by admin

It is important to keep a watchful eye on how well your site is performing in search engine (SE) results with respect to certain keywords. CyberWyre for example relies on the keywords “keyword”, “high paying”, and “adsense” to bring in most of its search engine traffic. When you have spent time, and possibly money on optimizing your site for certain keywords, it is important to know if your efforts were successful and how high you place in rankings given these keywords.

I have recently found a useful set of SEO tools which greatly eases this process. Jim at We Build Webpages has released a useful tool which allows you to submit your website URL, your search term, and it will generate a table of results summarizing your search engine placement given your search term. Given the URL http://www.cwire.org and the search term “high paying keyword”, Jim’s tool generated the following results:

• I am ranked #4 in Google
• I am ranked #29 in MSN
• I am not within the top 50 in Yahoo
• There are 2840 pages indexed on my site
• There are 3820 domain backlinks to my site
• My Alexa rank is 37550

If you operate a popular site or blog, knowing these statistics is crucial to optimizing your site for search engine rankings; a tool like this is particularly useful in determining the success of optimizations you may have applied and determining if your ranking for certain keywords actually improved, or possibly degraded due to your change. If you happen to know of any other useful tools such as this one, please submit them for us all to benefit.

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