How Can You Tell if You are on Google Page 1?

15 years ago

Your website will basically come in search results if it is unique name. but getting your site which is having keywords in first page is really difficult. Take an example of my website seostores It takes really good amount of time to bring in top pages of search engines

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Andyhenry

15 years ago

Surfers don't usually search using quotes.....

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KeithJ 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Surfers don't usually search using quotes.....

The most obvious yet most profound response...

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kea55

15 years ago

ok so when will I know it's on page one...without the quotes I suppose it what you're saying?

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tdigitty

15 years ago

You didn't accomplish much...as Andy said...people don't typically use quotes for common searches.

Also, what was the purpose of changing your URL to include the www? The non-www and www versions are treated as separate sites. You should do a 301 redirect from the non www to the www url. Link popularity should pass through if you do a 301.

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darren13

15 years ago

Hi Kea55
Go to google and search for your keywords. If your site comes up on the first page then your on the first page. Just make sure your on google.com or whatever local google homepage your trying to rank on. You dont need to search in quotes.

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Geolina

15 years ago

Originally Posted by darren13

Hi Kea55
Go to google and search for your keywords. If your site comes up on the first page then your on the first page. Just make sure your on google.com or whatever local google homepage your trying to rank on. You dont need to search in quotes.

I might be wrong but I think you have to clear your cookies first and log out of your google account if you use google stats, otherwise you won´t get real results. I didn´t do this and my site showed up among the first spots for a couple of keywords I was targenting - when I logged out of my google account it was nowhere to be found, or way down...

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Laura B

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Geolina

I might be wrong but I think you have to clear your cookies first and log out of your google account if you use google stats, otherwise you won´t get real results. I didn´t do this and my site showed up among the first spots for a couple of keywords I was targenting - when I logged out of my google account it was nowhere to be found, or way down...

That's right, you have to log out. Google tailors search results so you're going to show up higher on the list if you're logged in than you actually are.

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Cataclysm1987 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Laura B

That's right, you have to log out. Google tailors search results so you're going to show up higher on the list if you're logged in than you actually are.

Pro tip: instead of logging out, just hit control shift p if you are using Mozilla Firefox. Works like a charm.
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jasonmorgan

15 years ago

I was wondering do you put your keywords in quotes?

Don't bother with quotes.

I just changed it yesterday so it could show up with the "www"

Change it back. www is ancient webby stuff.

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kea55

15 years ago

so how do I do a 301 redirect? I just spent all of today backlinking www. now I have backlinks for both www. and without the www. can someone tell me how to do the 301?

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Andyhenry 15 years ago

Originally Posted by kea55

can someone tell me how to do the 301?

I wrote a guide to this before but can't find it right now. 2 seconds of Google searching returned this step by step guide:

Read this: How to 301 Redirect Non-WWW to WWW URLs*|*StepForth Web Marketing Inc.
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tittbit

15 years ago

you can use google position checking tools
search on google for those tools

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tdigitty

15 years ago

Search "301 redirect" in Google -webconfs.com should come up first. Follow the instructions for "Redirect to www (htaccess redirect)"

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kea55

15 years ago

ouch. this doesn't look simple....

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Success2020

15 years ago

Try site:www.YourWebsite.com or YourWebsite.com

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scottsheen 15 years ago

You should be able to do a redirect from C-panel of your hosting account. If your hosting account has c-panel just look for Domains > Redirects. That should set you up a permanent 301 redirect.

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JHC81

15 years ago

If you put your site in quotes and you see it as number one that doesn't mean you're actually number one. When you see your site without quotes that's when you're number one.

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Monica-Redshaw

15 years ago

Most of the people search without quotes.

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