Cool Trick to See How Well Your Site is Ranked

Everyone knows that to see the status of the site in the search engine, all you need to check is the site’s PageRank. But it can take months to update the pagerank of a site, and even when it is updated, you are only seeing an approximation of the true pagerank, which is based on an logarithmic scale.

A better way to see how Google ranks your site in relation to the keywords that you wish to optimize for, is to open a Google AdWords Account page, and follow these instructions:

1. In the campaign managment tab, click on “Tools”.
2. In the left column, click on “Keyword Tool”.
3. Choose the second option, Website Content:
4. Check the box “scan links to my site from this page”
5. Click “Get Keyword Ideas”.
6. See what words come up. If they are relevant to your site and you expect searches to be done using these words, you are doing fine. If not, you need to update the text on your site to better optimize for those desired keywords.

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