Monitor Your Visibility in Google Max Scherzer Authentic Jersey , MSN, and Yahoo with these DIY SEO Tools Home Business Articles | July 28, 2005
This is the second part of an article series in which you?ll find many tools that you can use to monitor your site?s search engine position and see how your do-it-yourself search engine optimization efforts are coming along.
The following tools are for monitoring your search results in the three major search engines. It isn?t an all-inclusive list, but rather a highlight of some of the tools you can use. (I?ll point you to one of the master lists when we get into more general tools in part three.)
Using Your Google Site Information Page
I?ve covered this in an earlier article, but just in case you missed it Yan Gomes Authentic Jersey , we?ll go over it again briefly here. (If you need more help following along, you can listen to one of my recent podcasts for a convenient audio walkthrough.)
Open up your browser and go to Google?s home page. Type in info:yoursitenameandsuffix. So if your site was ExactSeek you?d type info:exactseek. You can also use site:yoursitenameandsuffix to find out which pages have been indexed by Google?s search engine spider.
This search will tell you pages that Google considers similar to yours. It will also show sites that it considered linked to you, and show sites that carry your full url, hyperlinked or not. It?s not 100% accurate as far as telling you all the sites that are linked back to yours, but what you can learn from this is which backlinks matter.
From here you can also see the last day Google spidered your home page.
To see this in action Brian Dozier Authentic Jersey , click on the first group of information links, ?Show Google's cache of yoursitename? If you look next to the word ?cached? one the first line, the date is expressed also.
Sometimes it seems that the cached time for yoursitename and www.yoursitename are different, so be sure and check both.
Finding Information About Your Site In Yahoo http:help.yahoohelpusysearchtipstips-08
This document will tell you how to find out what sites are linking to you, give you the results for how many pages of your site are in Yahoo Trea Turner Authentic Jersey , and more. Once you get to the results page, you?ll be able to view your cached pages, etc.
Discovering Your Site?s Status on MSN http:search.msndocssiteowner.aspx
As the page in the help section states, you can use site:www.yoursitehere to find out if a document at your site has been indexed. The results page will also give you the date of last caching.
You?ll need a free Google API key for this one, and the site has the direct link telling you where to get one. You?ll have to enter this key in order to query the site for information on Google.
With Google Rankings Anthony Rendon Authentic Jersey , you?ll be able to see where you rank within the top 40-1000 results in Google for a given keyword. I recently noticed that it also displays results for MSN and Yahoo, with links to each search engine.
They also have some other tools that will track your keywords over time, as well as one they call the ?Ultimate SEO Tool? that will measure your site?s keyword density.
Google Backlinks Checker http:lilenginetoolsbacklinks-tool.php
LilEngine?s Backlink Checker will measure the number of links you have pointing back to your site against competing sites. Handy if you just want a quick comparison of how many links you have versus others, though how much getting more links back will help varies, depending on other factors.
From the same folks who brought you Google Rankings Ryan Zimmerman Nike Jersey , using Yahoo Search Rankings, you?ll be able to see where you rank within the top 1000 results in Yahoo for a given keyword. If you just want to see your Yahoo rankings, it?s quite helpful.
You can find more Yahoo tools that use the Yahoo Web API at their developer?s site : http:developer.yahoo.netwikiindex.cgi?ApplicationList.
In the next part of the article, we?ll take a closer look at other tools that give you more specific information about the links pointing back to your site, keyword research Michael Taylor Nike Jersey , and more.
Here's a fact for you, 85 to 95% of websites are found through a search engine. You may have the most incredible website on the Internet, but it will receive little or no traffic without search engine visibility and ranking. Can you imagine a billboard in the Sahara desert? Who sees it?
So, how will searchers find your website? What types of search engines could they use?
Search engines fall into two categories. The first is referred to as natural, organic or standard. The second is called pay-per-click Adam Eaton Nike Jersey , paid inclusion or paid placement.
Natural, organic and standard are interchangeable terms describing a search engine that bases its search rankings on a ranking algorithm. The algorithms involve a number of criteria and parameters, all relating to the content of the website, the website's size, the number of incoming links to the website Wilmer Difo Nike Jersey , and the content's relevancy. You will hear terms such as keyword relevancy and keyword density to describe various components of the algorithms.
For the standard search engines, you, your webmaster or hired search engine optimization specialist could spend considerable time optimizing your website to achieve top rankings. The goal is for your website to appear on the first or second page of the search engines' results when your target user searches keywords or keyword phrases.