Finding Indexed Pages and Placement

[Wonderbaum]

I got a Private Message from Gail, but I thought that I would answer it here so that others could benefit as well. This is not rocket science but merely the way that I do it. I’m sure that there are many other way (and probably faster and better ways) to do the same things.

1. How do you know when you are indexed?
Well I haven’t found a way to “just know” but what I do is that I use the Google Toolbar (http://www.toolbar.google.com) that has a feature called “cached snapshot of page”. If you are able to get a snapshot the spiders must have paid you site a visit and at that point you have been indexed. Now this doesn’t mean that you can’t be removed from the index but still have a cached page though. The way to be certain that you are currently in the index is to use the “site-feature”. Go to Google and write site:www.yourdomain.com and you will see how many pages are currently indexed.

2. How do you tell how many pages are indexed?
See answer to question number 1.

3. How do you determine the ranking of the pages?
I use three different ways:

a) I search for a particular search term and see whether my site is in the top 30-40 results. I normally search using brackets “ “.

b) You can use the tool called MarketLeap Keyword Verification (http://www.marketleap.com/verify/default.htm) and enter the keywords that you want to check.

c) You use a tool like the SEOelite software tool provided by Brad Callen. That makes the process a whole lot easier but it is not free.


I hope that you could use some of this.
Thanks

[Marc]

Also one that I use specifically for search engine placement checking is Web Position Gold 4

It's very handy for checking placement, tracking, local search engines. I have yet to find a tool that matches it in pure search placement checking.

Regards
Marc