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How do you know where you site ranks in Google?

by inneraction
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Hello,

Please excuse the silly question, but assuming my website does not rank in the top few pages of Google, how can I find out where it ranks for the keywords I am targeting?

And just for the fun of it, say for some reason my main keyword is not what is ranking for (although that should not be possible given I use it in the URL, titles, tags, text etc), how does one find out which words a site IS ranking for?

Also, I have a bunch of articles and web 2.0 properties with links pointing to my money site. But Market Samurai and other backlink checking sites are only showing 1 backlink. There should be easily 15-20 at least. Does it really take this long (around 2 weeks) for backlinks to show? I have Ezine articles, hubpages with enough of a score for dofollow, blogger, wordpress.com, goarticles and others. I am frustrated that nothing is showing up. Or is this normal and it just takes more time? They all contain my main keyword phrase and the links are all correct.

Thanks in advance!
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  • Profile picture of the author Russell Taylor
    The online tool I use is on this site w w w mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ **Fix w w w to www and add a dot. I can't post links because of my low post count just yet so that's why.

    It also shows you where you rank in other search engines as well.

    As for finding out what your keyword does rank for, installing Google Analytics is the best statistics program out there. Not only will it show you keywords but it will show you the demographics of your visitors, bounce rate, etc...

    As for the backlinks, try submitting the RSS feeds to feed directories and ping those as well as the original content you submitted.
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    • Profile picture of the author inneraction
      Originally Posted by Russell Taylor View Post

      The online tool I use is on this site w w w mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ **Fix w w w to www and add a dot. I can't post links because of my low post count just yet so that's why.

      It also shows you where you rank in other search engines as well.

      As for finding out what your keyword does rank for, installing Google Analytics is the best statistics program out there. Not only will it show you keywords but it will show you the demographics of your visitors, bounce rate, etc...

      As for the backlinks, try submitting the RSS feeds to feed directories and ping those as well as the original content you submitted.
      Thanks for the tool. Its very cool- but it only shows the top 100 sites I believe. Haven't quite cracked that yet but this will be very helpful. I did submit my posts to RSS feeds- how do I ping the feeds? Or are you referring to pinging the actual posts on my site which is a wordpress self hosted site and is auto pinged with the ping optimizer plugin. Thanks again!
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  • Profile picture of the author jstover77
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    I use Market Samurai to see what keywords I know I want to rank with or am targeting. I then check Google analytics to see what people are finding me under. I also use provide support which allows to track visitors real time, and it shows what they searched to find my website and a link to the search engine. The combination of the 3 does the trick.
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    You can simply look in Google's webmaster tools and see where you rank for keywords and how the different rankings can influence your number of click throughs.
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    • Profile picture of the author inneraction
      Originally Posted by HorseStall View Post

      You can simply look in Google's webmaster tools and see where you rank for keywords and how the different rankings can influence your number of click throughs.
      Just signed up for the webmaster tools- wish I would have known about it before. Great stuff...thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Frogger2000
    Google webmaster tools are the best. However, I would also do yahoo and Bing.....3 heads are better than 1...I get longer higher results with yahoo than with google....more competition with google.......

    example- key word phrase 1 at google 88 clicks daily / Yahoo was 489 click daily.....

    More people beat me up at google.....less bang for time/buck\

    Articles will only work if they have specific key word saturation between 6 - 8 percent and other factors.....I will not go into here.....articles are hard to get high.....if you do not do it right...and word press can kill you on them too....
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    • Profile picture of the author inneraction
      Originally Posted by Frogger2000 View Post

      Google webmaster tools are the best. However, I would also do yahoo and Bing.....3 heads are better than 1...I get longer higher results with yahoo than with google....more competition with google.......

      example- key word phrase 1 at google 88 clicks daily / Yahoo was 489 click daily.....

      More people beat me up at google.....less bang for time/buck

      Articles will only work if they have specific key word saturation between 6 - 8 percent and other factors.....I will not go into here.....articles are hard to get high.....if you do not do it right...and word press can kill you on them too....
      Good idea with looking up Yahoo and Bing as well. I assume they both have Webmaster tools as well?
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      • Profile picture of the author inneraction
        Never mind. I signed up for both Bing and Yahoo's own webmaster. Great tips and thanks to all!
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  • Profile picture of the author Groovystar
    I google my keywords to find out.

    If my site doesn't turn up in the first 5 or 10 pages for that, I don't worry about where it is in pages 11 and beyond I just accept that I still got work to do!
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
    I always use SEO Administrator. It gives you your positions till page 3000 ;-)
    Also, it parses not only G,Y,B, but also 30+ search engines, and most importantly, all Google local searches.
    Cons: paid tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author Highdefinition
    I'm using the "Ranktracker" by Seo powersuite.
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