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OK, so if you are like me you obsess on your Search Engine Ranking Position (SERPS.)  Over the past three years I have developed a manual method to search Google by keyword.

First I would go to advanced search and set the number of returns to be 100 per page instead of 10 per page.  Then I would type in the keyword that I have been trying to rank for and do the search.  You end up with 100 search results and of course you are trying to see if you are in the top 10 or even the top 100.

So then I used to scroll down one by one until I found my own listing and count my position.  Well about a year or so ago I discovered a way to not have to actually count the returns.  When you locate your listing you hover your mouse pointer over the grayed out word: “cached” near the bottom of the listing, and in the very long string of totally non-nonsensical characters at the bottom of the screen you look for the [CD= number] and that will be your SERPS position number.

So I talked to several programmer friends and asked if a script could be written to do all of this automatically.  At first the answer was always, sure, no problem, but when I asked for an actual price quote to do this everyone decided that they did not want to do it.

I even asked a very well known internet marketer to help me develop it and we would share the profits.  Didn’t happen.  I have been doing some VA business with people in the Philippines and in India both, and had put out feelers to get a price for programming such a tool, and suddenly it appeared in front of me developed by I don’t know who.

All I do know is that this thing is very helpful and the best thing is that it is totally free to use.  You can sign up for a free account and use it as much as you like to check all of your SERPS.  They also have a backlink checker that will show you how many backlinks you have coming to any url.

The website is new as of December 3rd and I can not figure out who owns this site, but it matters not.  It works and works well.  There is a message on one screen that says they have a paid version that will keep continuous tracking of your requests and will send you an email on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.  The only thing is that link does not work and there is no indication as to why.

Perhaps it is just in the free beta version and the paid version will come along later.

So the site is http://easyseotracking.com/

Go there, check your SERPS and Backlinks.

PS: this just in.  I have found the best way to get free dot gov and dot edu backlinks.  You will need the authority codes to find the right ones and you can download the free pdf at the link shown.

Get on Google Page One http://bit.ly/culStA <== Free PDF (tip: uses .edu and .gov links)

Have fun!
Rich

You use keyword linkbait in comments and in Blog posts to encourage the search engines to keep moving you to the front to the pack, right?

You hear about keyword search tools and they do work, but then you hear where the Big G is going to punish users of these special tools. I personally think most of the scuttlebut is all crap, but here is a way to search for your keywords or keyword phrases to see where they rank in the serps without using any special tools, just the Google search box.

[ SERPS = Search Engine Results Page (s) ]

I use Firefox, but this probably works with any type of browser.

1 – Go to the Google search page and click on “preferences.” Change the number of search returns from 10 to 100.

2 – Search for your keywords or phrase.

3 – On the first 100 returns, go to the top of the Firefox tool bar and click on “Edit,” then “Find in this Page,” and type in your url that you are hoping to gain search rank for, or enough of the url line so that it would be a unique word.

4 – If your url is within the first 100 pages, the search will take you right to the serps listing. Just count your position number, log it and then re-check it once a week or so.

5 – If it does not show up in the first 100 returns, then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen and click on the next group of 100. You will have to click on the “Find again” tab to see if it pops up there or not. If not, continue to the next 100. I never bother to go beyond 500 because you just don’t exist at that point.

Once you know your number you can then work on promoting it with other means and keep checking later.

I have seen several of my own keyword phrases start out in the high 300′s and eventually work their way up to the first page, and even have a few that are now on page 1, number 1, so it pays to promote your keywords!

This post was inspired by a similar one on Jarret Cade dot net .

I’m Rich

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