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    What is the best way to check your own site for keyword rankings, e.g if I wanted to target a new phrase and wanted to check the progress of its ranking - what is the best way to check it? Should I just search Google and scroll through the results?

    Tommo, London, UK



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  • agapitoflores001

    I'll check it out myself and see if my ranking has improved.
    Saturday 12 November 2011 22:26:33
  • paynechristopher29

    very useful and nice video.. 
    Friday 11 November 2011 01:31:40
  • alphabert77

    Get into your niche, relate to people that matter in your niche, use social media to bring people to your website, connect with your (potential) customers. He doesn't mention the Search API, because he doesn't have to (Google TOS: 'do not send automated queries to Google') and because it's besides his point (see comment below).
    Sunday 23 January 2011 10:51:30
  • alphabert77

    @redflymarketing You are right that you need some focus on some keywords, especially when your website is new. In that case you don't have any userdata, you don't how people are using your website and you don't get links from other websites, because no one knows your website exists. Matt just don't want you to have a complete focus on rankings (not visitors) and turning your site into a desperate keyword stuffed website, obsessed with rankings while you have 'smaller fish to fry' (long tail).
    Sunday 23 January 2011 10:50:35
  • kinfair

    Chrome has a beta traffic tracking toolbar that displays the general PR of a sit with google, bing, yahoo etc.
    Monday 20 December 2010 22:47:56
  • seofreetool

    Thanks for sharing. We also do SEO. Feel free to visit our blog at seofreetools(dot)org
    Wednesday 24 November 2010 03:36:04
  • AshPhat2000

    @antwakefield - haha! - The planet of smoke and mirrors!
    Monday 09 August 2010 01:08:19
  • finalwebsites

    Nice one Matt, internet marketing is not only about rankings! For those are looking for this information, there is some great function on GWT. Access the "search queries" section and find information like impressions, clicks and landing pages for your keywords. This information is not 100% exact (and not real time), but gives an good idea what's on with your site.
    Saturday 07 August 2010 03:25:11
  • ScienceAround

    @redflymarketing yup, monies change everything
    Saturday 24 July 2010 17:31:07
  • ScienceAround

    @thrillerboy20 it's called "rank checker" tools. seobook. com/firefox/rank-checker/
    Saturday 24 July 2010 16:08:45
  • thrillerboy20

    @ScienceAround What addon would that be?
    Saturday 24 July 2010 06:03:53
  • manfmnantucket

    OK there you go again, recommending to consider the long tail of search - that is exactly what the mayday update seems to have killed off, though - it doesn't work that way anymore...
    Tuesday 20 July 2010 18:02:31
  • lepensky

    checking your server logs? Why not Analytics and Webmaster tool? They have history and progress.
    Tuesday 20 July 2010 10:49:39
  • dyoungprod

    There was an easier answer & more obvious answer - the position reporting Google already provides in Webmaster Tools.
    Monday 19 July 2010 16:04:27
  • redflymarketing

    @gthing32 EXACTLY! Matt, as nice ad all as he is always seems to forget that we're running a business (most of us), not a blog site where there's nothing to track but engagement. Yet another video where Matt has glossed over the original questions with some predictable Google boilerplate.
    Monday 19 July 2010 16:01:44
  • redflymarketing

    @bigal21110 Fair enough, you are right, but he should know better than to expect that we will all just check our rankings manually. This gives us the "Sorry, you don't look like a human to us, please use another search engine" message. I completely agree and understand why Google don't want automatic queries, that's why we use the search APIs. Google should know that webmasters DO this so why not give the best advice possible? I makes sense to track your keyword rankings, even for the UX
    Monday 19 July 2010 15:57:30
  • babbababba2007

    Matt, this is not an proper answer for the question "What is the best way to check your own site for keyword rankings? "....
    Monday 19 July 2010 15:15:04
  • antwakefield

    Exactly what planet does Matt Cutts live on???
    Sunday 18 July 2010 01:04:23
  • theylmdl

    Hi! Nice point and I fully agree - watch your logs, not the SERPs. What about supporting us webmasters by adding the "cd" GET-parameter to the conventional search result referrers ("/search?") like the are passed with the "/url?" referrer type? This would help us a lot on our way to a better analysis. I've already suggested this (to JohnMu) at the german GWMT. In my case, only a third of the google referrer URLs come in with the /url format _and_ position data. Regards, Thomas
    Saturday 17 July 2010 17:21:52
  • bigal21110

    @redflymarketing thumbs up but i don't think he is missing the point...just remember he is working FOR GOOGLE so he has to be political.
    Thursday 15 July 2010 19:17:52
  • redflymarketing

    Sorry Matt, completely missing the point. If we KNOW what keywords convert and we KNOW what keywords generate the highest ROI, why NOT target those keywords? Why not check the progress of that keywords? I think you miss the point with a lot of your videos completely as you don't have ROI to measure, you don't have revenue generating keywords that you need to track. You should bear this in mind when doing future videos. I notice that you didn't even mention the search API?
    Wednesday 14 July 2010 20:37:05
  • figurethis2

    webmasters will always check their rankings, its part and parcel of it. (also gives us something to obsess over)
    Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:55:54
  • VorticonCmdr

    Thanks for the answer. But sounds like Google is really helpless. I happed to have that problem (big penalty) and there wasn't even a simple hint in the Webmaster Tools. What should I do when I must/want that particular domain because it's my name/trademark/... ? I am sorry but for me it sounds like Google did surrender to the spammers but not solving the problem in order to help us "normal" guys. :-(
    Wednesday 14 July 2010 16:03:31
  • djpaisley

    Matt... Boss is asking the question, how can we do this today? (i am testing multiple tools to see if they work or not and asking therm if they violate GWG... and she keeps asking me for this one thing.. BUT.. i told her we can't violate the GWG rules... HELP!)
    Wednesday 14 July 2010 14:56:20
  • djpaisley

    Matt, Will the Ajax API be able exported to some type of report, etc? Via Google analytics? Google Webmaster Tools? For Historical Data to show SEO Clients? Great advice on video .. we know what phrases convert, etc.. but need to show client progress on those terms as justification for SEO payments.
    Wednesday 14 July 2010 13:15:59
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