How to Find Your Site’s Position in Google Search Results

The first is to use my free Rank Checker tool. It’s a desktop application where you feed it a bunch of URLs and a bunch of keywords and it tells you which URLs rank for which keywords. I released it as a “mystery tool”, and I might still charge for it, so get it now while it’s free…

Anyhow, the other way to do it involves these steps:

  • Start a copy of Firefox.
  • If you haven’t already, install the SEO Tools for Firefox add-in. (You’ll have to restart Firefox.)
  • Go to the Google home page and click the Preferences link. Set the preferences to display 100 results per page and save the preferences.
  • Make sure the SEO Tools plugin is enabled — the “SEO” icon in the bottom right of the status bar should be in color.
  • Search Google for the keyword/phrase of interest. You’ll see a bunch of extra information at the bottom of each item in the Google results page. These are inserted automatically by the SEO Tools extension. Right now you’re mainly interested in the position, i.e. “#1″, “#2″, etc.
  • Hit CTRL+F to bring up the Firefox search box. Type in the start of the URL you’re interested in tracking. (If I want to see what position this blog is in, I just look for memwg.com.) After typing in the URL (or partial URL), click the “Next” button immediately to the right of the search bar.
  • If your URL is in the results, you’ll jump immediately to it and see what position you’re at.
  • If not, go to the next page of the results and click the Next button again. Repeat this process as many times as necessary until you either find your site or run out of results.
The key is the 100 results per page setting — it makes the process much less tedious.

Don’t forget that the results you see are dependent on which Google site you’re using, what language you’re targeting, etc.

My Site Ranks First in Google


Source: Memwg.com
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