So you have a site, you monitor your stats – but how does it rank?

  • How many pages have Google indexed?
  • How many other sites are linking to you?
  • Where does your site rank on the net?

Finding out this information is vital if you’re to make it as far as Google is concerned. Fortunately, all this info is already available without costing you a dime.

How Many Pages Have Been Indexed By Google?

To find out how many pages Google have indexed on your site, you can do a search using the following parameter:

site:your-site-url

This simple search will reveal how many pages Google found with your site URL on it. For example, a look at The MomGadget shows that Google indexed 1,100 pages with momgadget.com in them. The higher the number, the better your chances of showing up in a Google search.

How Many Backlinks Do You Have?

To check how many sites linked to you enter the following into a Google search – link:your-site-url. This will tell you how many sites Google have indexed that is also linking to your site. In the case of MomGadget, the answer is 145.

I know that more sites than that linked to MomGadget, but not all sites that link to MomGadget are indexed by Google. For example, Yahoo shows The TechZone with 13,000 backlinks. Backlinks are important because they happen to be a major determining factor in your Google Page Rank.

What Is Your Google Page Rank?

Page Rank is one of the factors Google uses to decide where you rank in search results. The higher your ranking, the higher up you are listed. Page Rank ranges from 0 to 10, with 10 being best. To find your page rank, you can download and install the Google Toolbar. Page Rank happens to be one of the item it displays thus making it easy to track your position.

Where Does Your Site Rank On The Net?

Alexa tells where your site ranks on the internet. MomGadget has a ranking of 133,215. What does that mean? According to Alexa, it means my site is the 133,215th biggest on the net. To find your Alexa Ranking, you can either use the Alexa toolbar or go to the Alexa home page and do a simple search on your site URL. Both will provide you the answer.

Alexa is a pretty worthless stat really. Alexa rankings are based on Alexa toolbar users, so it’s highly probable that a persons results could be skewed by having a bunch of friends surf their site while running the toolbar.

I personally don’t place a great deal of stock in my overall Alexa ranking.

Another great site to gather data and ranking is Compete.com

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Originally posted 2009-12-20 02:31:59.

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