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[shervin]

Hi:
My first site got listed today in google and yahoo. How can I find my ranking in them?After checking the first 10 pages I gave up and thought my friends in "The Forum" must be able to show me a faster way.
Thanks

[qwerty]

You can use a free tool provided by Digital Point Solutions. It uses the Google API, but you need to have an API key to use it. You can get information on that and sign up for a key at http://www.google.com/apis/index.html

Keep in mind that (apparently) the API has its own index, so you may find that results you get using this tool differ slightly from what you'd see if you searched manually, but as far as I know it's the only way to automatically query Google without going against their terms of service.

[Scottie]

My first site got listed today in google and yahoo.

How do you know that?

One thing you might want to do is set your options in Google to view 100 listings at a time. If you've visited your site recently, the link will be a different color and will stand out in the listings.

HTH!

[shervin]

Thank you Scotie. Your tip was quite helpful. I did not know such an option existed.
But about Qwertys hint ,I ran into some problems. I did go to google an got an API and went to keyword tracker and opened an account. When I go in there and try to get my rank by giving them my hrl and the keyword I get a 9999 . That means google cant find me. Now, in the FAQ section of the site, this problem is mentioned but I dont understand the answer. This is what Im talking about:

I'm getting a 9999 (not found) ranking, but I know it should be in there.
Make sure your URL matches... are you entering http://www.yourdomain.com, but Google returns http://yourdomain.com for example? It does a simple pattern match, so if Google returns http://www.yourdomai...roducts/wigets/ for example, you could enter the URL in the keyword tool as the exact URL or something like: http://www.yourdomain.com or even just yourdomain.

Can you help me?

[OldWelshGuy]

Hi Shervin, Not meaning to sound dumb here, but how do you know the site is listed if you can't find it?

Do you mean that your site got spidered by google? if so then it will take about 36 -48 hours on average for them to update.

[shervin]

Because I type in the url and google finds it. Doesnt it mean I am listed? And it has been more then a week now.

[OldWelshGuy]

Yes it looks like your in there, go to your site, grab about 6 words of text from it, copy & paste it into google and do a search in inverted commas " " this will search for that exact phrase, and hopefully pull up your page if Google has spidered it properly.

[powerofeyes]

As OWG said or just do an allinurl: search, it is as simple as that,

Just type allinurl:www.yourownsite.com you will see all the pages listed from your site,

[qwerty]

Shervin, regarding the FAQ at digitalpoint, I think what they're suggesting is that if you entered one version of your URL in their tool and a different version is coming up in Google, then the tool won't find you.

For example, if Google has your site listed as http://domain.com, but you told the keyword tracking tool to find the ranking for www.domain.com, they may not see it.

So I guess the thing to do is search on domain.com on google and see what version of your URL comes up, then make sure that's what you entered at digitalpoint. After that, if you're still coming up with a 9999 for your keyword phrase, it means (assuming everything's working) that either your site doesn't rank for that phrase, or the API index doesn't contain the same information as the index you're querying at google.com.

[shervin]

To OWG:
When you say "paste it into google" you mean paste in keyword tracker? Because if that is what you mean, I already tried it and still same result.
As far as giving them my url is concerned, does it matter if I put / at the end or not? because when my site appears in the address bar it appears with a /. Any ways I tried it both ways and still same answer. But does it matter?
(I know that this is stupid question but had to ask it anyways)

[OldWelshGuy]

Paste the phrase into Googles search box and search for it, If your page has been indexed then it should show in the results, also there should be a 'show results with excluded pages' link below as well, clicking this will show all the pages in the index.

This is really checking that google has not only visited, but has read your page, sometimes they hit a page, get some way down it then get stuck, so although you are in the database, your not fully indexed.

HTH

[shervin]

I did all POIs and qwerty and owg said. But still got no aswer.I even copied the url as it appears in the address bar and went and got a new poi, making sure that I have the exact url as google but still the tracker gives no result. I tried it for some elses site and got correct answer but for my site, zilch.
But I did manage to discover what qwerty means. And that had gotten me all tangeled up and confused. "Couldnt this guy come up with an easier more common name?" I asked myself. (Not that my name is common but it is at least easy to say) but suddenly it sparked It is all there. Right in front of my eyes. at the tip of my fingers
I have won one battle, I am yet to win the war with your help.

[AussieWebmaster]

okay what is the web address?

Also for digitalpoint you can enter www.domainname.com as the address and it will pull whatever page is used for the keyword under the domain.

Love that little tool... makes me look good... have 32 terms at number one and over a hundred on front page!!!