What is the best way to check your own site for keyword rankings?

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

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• rankings
• seo

[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?

[ScienceAround]

that was an answer from the land of rainbows and unicorns :) The best way to check your ranks is to use Firefox addon.

[agapitoflores001]

I'll check it out myself and see if my ranking has improved.

[paynechristopher29]

very useful and nice video..



[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).

[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).

[kinfair]

Chrome has a beta traffic tracking toolbar that displays the general PR of a sit with google, bing, yahoo etc.

[AshPhat2000]

@antwakefield - haha! - The planet of smoke and mirrors!

[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.

[ScienceAround]

@redflymarketing yup, monies change everything

[ScienceAround]

@thrillerboy20 it's called "rank checker" tools. seobook. com/firefox/rank-checker/