There are many free ways to check out how your shaping up on Google. Here you’ll find a few tips and some advice to help you monitor your performance with Google.
- Find Out Who’s Linking To You:
In the search box at Google.com, type in “link:www.yourdomain.com”. The results will show you every indexed page on google that is linking back to your domain in some way. This will give you a good idea of how your link building efforts are shaping up.
- How Well Are You Indexed:
Every page on your site should be indexed in Google unless you don’t want it to be and have taken mesaures to prevent that (ie members areas, etc). You can find out how well you’re indexed by doing the following: type “site:www.yourdomain.com” into Google search and you’ll get the results of what pages Google knows exist. If there’s some major gaps it means you need to get to work organizing your site better, or creating a sitemap, to make sure everything gets indexed.
- Find out your PageRank:
PageRank goes on a scale of 1 to 10, the higher the better. This is a sign of how important, more or less, Google finds your website. If you’ve got a high page rank, chances are you’re ranking higher in results on the keywords you target. Go to the SEO Chat PageRank lookup and follow the instructions.
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