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Subject: How do we find our location on search engines when using our keywords?
Category: Business and Money > Advertising and Marketing
Asked by: woodley-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 27 Jun 2003 08:38 PDT
Expires: 27 Jul 2003 08:38 PDT
Question ID: 222374
Our company, Cookiegrams of Georgia (located in Stone Mountain,
Georgia)submitted our website to several search engines. We are listed
on Google, but we are having a hard time finding where we are listed
on the pages using our keywords. We are trying to find out if there is
any way Google can tell us what number we rank and on what page.

Sincerely,
Cookiegrams of Georgia
www.cookiegramsusa.com
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Subject: Re: How do we find our location on search engines when using our keywords?
Answered By: aceresearcher-ga on 27 Jun 2003 12:39 PDT
 
Greetings, woodley!

There is no easy, definitive way to check your Search Engine Results
Rankings. There ARE software packages which will do this for you;
however, Google has made it quite clear that the use of such services
can get you banned from the Google Index faster than just about
anything else.

The best way that I have found to find out a URL's Search Results
Rankings is this:
First, on the Google page, click on "Preferences" (you will need to
allow Google to set a Cookie to do this) and choose "100" from the
pull-down menu for "Number of Results" per page.

Then put your choice of keywords in the Google Search Text box, and
click "Google Search". This should bring up a page of up to 100 Search
Results. For purposes of this example, I chose
cookiegrams cookie gift baskets
://www.google.com/search?q=cookiegrams+cookie+gift+baskets&num=100

Then do a text search (usually Ctrl-F) for something that will
hopefully find ONLY your site. I chose "gramsusa". My browser went to
the last, or 46th, result on the page, which happens to be your site.
So for the set of keywords
cookiegrams cookie gift baskets
your site ranks 46th.

You can do this for any combination of keywords you choose. Note that
Google will only allow you to get up to 1000 Results for any given
Search, so if your site isn't within the first 1000, you won't be able
to figure out where it is.


Now, for something about which you didn't ask, but which I feel
obliged to mention. Your 4 main pages all have a Google Page Rank of
0. This means a couple of things:
1) You are doing one or more things that is/are making the Googlebot
mad, and it's penalizing your Page Rank for them.
2) As long as your Page Rank is 0, your site is not likely to rank
very highly in the Search Results for ANY combination of keywords.

Going into all of the factors that affect Page Rank is a complex
process, and one that is way outside the scope of this Question at
this fee price. However, if you are interested in receiving a detailed
analysis of your website with the aim of making changes that will
improve your Page Rank, I encourage you to consider posting a
separate, appropriately-priced Question asking for help with that.

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seeking!

Best wishes,        
        
aceresearcher
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