Find Out What Google Thinks Of Your Site?
What Google Thinks Of Your Site?
Copyright © 2008 Titus Hoskins
For most online marketers Google is the only
search engine that really counts. It now has
over 60% of the all important U.S. search
traffic market. In other countries its share
is well over 80% or more.
Simply put, Google delivers the most traffic.
I have always geared my online marketing towards
Google. I have spent years building my rankings
for my keywords and my sites within Google. If you
take out the fact that it has nearly driven me
insane, it has mostly been a positive experience.
In trying to reach the highest rankings possible
I have to be constantly aware of what Google
thinks of my site and content. It is important
to know how Google views and rates your site or
content.
Likewise, I try to find out as much about Google
as is humanly possible. But Google doesn't give
up its secrets easily. In fact finding out what
Google thinks of your content can only be truly
read in your rankings in their SERPs - if your
keywords/pages are in the number one spots then
Google must think you deserve to be there.
However, there are other ways of finding out
how Google is viewing your content. Below are
several Google webmaster tools and things you
can do to discover just how Google views your
site or pages. They will give you a better view
of what Google thinks about your site.
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Checking Your Content/Keywords In Google
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One handy tool that will show you what Google
thinks your pages consist of is here:
Google keyword tool External
Just type in your URL and tick off website content
and you will get a listing of the major keywords
Google has for your content. If your targeted
keyword or keywords are not listed, then you have
to do some re-writing.
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Checking Your Backlinks In Google
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Another helpful tool is to find out how many
backlinks you have in Google. If you want to
find the number of backlinks your site has.
Just type into Google Search:
link:yourURL
and it will give you the number of backlinks you have.
Google doesn't give you all your existing backlinks,
so you can try Yahoo! to find a more exact number.
Just open Yahoo! and type in:
linkdomain:yourURL
Now whether Google is using or considering all
these backlinks is the big question? Finding the
exact number of backlinks you have in Google has
always been a problem because Google is not giving
you the exact number or at least this is the
general opinion of most SEO experts.
Another way I monitor my links in Google is to
place quotation marks around my site name or
my name "bizwaremagic" or "titus hoskins"
and do a search in Google. This gives me the
pages containing references to me or my site.
This is usually 50-100,000 pages, I have also
noticed my online income usually corelates
as this number goes up or down.
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Checking Your Indexed Pages In Google
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If is very important for you to know what content
the search engines have indexed from your site.
You can also check to see how your links are
displayed and to see if any titles or descriptions
are missing from your pages.
You can see how many of your pages are indexed
in Google by using the site command.
Just type into Google Search:
site:yourURL
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Checking Your Google Cache
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You can also check to see the Google Cache
of your site by using the cache command.
You will also discover when it was last
retrieved.
Just type into Google Search:
cache:yourURL
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Checking Your PageRank Within Google
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Another tricky issue is PageRank. This is supposed
to be the heart of Google's ranking system but again
Google is using "smoke and mirrors" mainly to cut
out abuse and manipulation of their results. Some
experts say PageRank counts, other say it doesn't.
You can check your Google PageRank here:
PageRank Checker
From my own experiences, I have received more
traffic when my site was at PR4 than I received
when it was at PR6. What's important is getting
high rankings for your targeted keywords... if you
get top spots, it doesn't matter if you're PR4 or PR6,
you're still get the traffic.
I would like to add one point to the whole PageRank
issue and that has to do with perception. If you're
running an online business then having a PR8 site does
matter for it will bring in more business and customers
(especially if you're in the SEO industry) mainly
because of the "perceived value" of your site or
business.
What Google thinks does matter!
In other words, what Google thinks of your site can
play a major role in your success. Mainly because,
like it or hate it, Google has become the supreme
authority on the web and what they say, counts.
Therefore, you should be paying special attention
to just what Google is saying about your site and
acting upon that knowledge accordingly.
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The author, a former artist and teacher, is now a full-time
online marketer who has numerous websites, including two
sites on Internet marketing. For the latest web marketing
tools try: Marketing Tools
Copyright © 2008 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely
distributed if this resource box stays attached.
If you want to learn more about where Google is
headed in regards to their Search Engine, here's
an interesting post by Google's own Udi Manber,
VP Engineering, Search Quality:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-google-search-quality.html
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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