How To Verify And Monitor Your Search Engine Listing On Google.com?

Being listed in search engines and ranked high on searches is the overall goal a webmaster is tryingto achieve when dealing with search engines.

Search engine optimization is probably one of the most commonly used words among webmasters. In the Internetmarket becoming much more critical to business success this is almost natural.

While the professionals know how to verify search engine rankings and listings, the normal user or startupwebmaster might not know how to verify these things. The often just type their domain name into the searchengine of choice and are happy if they get a result back that includes their domain name. But there isa little more these startup webmasters should know about.

Every page indexed by a search engine is a possible landing page for visitors to enter the website. Asmore pages get indexed the higher number of possible entry points to the website. But how can a webmasterverify how many pages are currently in the index of a search engine?

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3DomainName.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3DomainName.com

Replace "DomainName.com" with the actual domain name that needs to be verified. A webmaster should alsorun the following variation to get an impression of what is really out there.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Awww.DomainName.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.DomainName.com

The next thing a webmaster should check is to see how many other websites are linking to his/her websiteat all. As almost everyone knows nowadays - the higher the number of links pointing to a website (incominglinks) as higher the possible search engine ranking on search can be (and we all want that number 1 spot,right?!). The problem is that Google will never show you all incoming links to a website. But even aball park number can be helpful in finding out if the SEO work of the past paid off. So, how does a webmastercan get this ball park number of incoming links?

http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Awww.DomainName.com

This command will show the 'ball park' number mentioned above. It will give the webmaster a hint howsuccessful the website is and how many people/websites are linking to it.

By researching the information of how many pages and how many links to/for a website are registered/indexedin a search engine a webmaster can gain important knowledge. This knowledge makes it easier to see whatworks and what does not work when it comes to search engine success for a website.

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