Monitoring Your Search Engine Rankings
How do you know if your web site is doing well for a large number of keywords, both top tier and long tail?
How do you quantify the results of the huge amount of effort you’ve put forth? You gone to a lot of hard work to include quality content, optimize the site for both visitors and search engines, and develop a quantity of good quality links to it.
Has all your hard work paid off?
Advanced Web Ranking is a software application by Caphyon that I have used for 5 years to help measure how my clients’ (and my own) websites are doing in the SERPs. I will tell you right now I received recompense from my original blog article about this product, however I NEVER recommend anything that I don’t believe in.
Visual Results
My clients absolutely love the ranking reports I send them from the results I get from Advanced Web Ranking. It gives them a visual of how well our SEO efforts are doing, and it’s exciting to see how a specific keyword advances in the rankings from month to month.
As a keyword rises in search engine rankings, reports give it an awesome green + along with the number of places it has gone up, and that gets everyone really excited and happy. Conversely, if a keyword is dropping in rankings, it’s indicated with a red – sign, and although that can be a bummer, it’s also a call to action to work on that particular keyword phrase.
Below is a screenshot of one of the pages of an actual ranking report I ran for a client.
Reports can be exported in HTML, PDF, Excel (XLS), XML, TXT, and CSV formats.
Search Engine Friendly
I typically choose the Google search engine, of course, and a couple of others. I like it that if a website is located in another country I can check the rankings that show up within that country’s search results. There are over 1,000 search engines available to pull from, located all over the world, so it doesn’t matter if you’re in the USA or Guatemala or the South Pole. These are constantly updated by Caphyon to ensure that results are always correct (it seems like almost every time I use it there’s an update).
Because AWR uses human emulation technology, when a report is run the search engine requests are indistinguishable from a web browser. (Sometimes Google will demand that I complete a Captcha on my personal searches for the remainder of the day following a run, but it’s a small price to pay.) You can use multiple proxy servers to decrease the update time, which can take quite awhile if the list of keywords is extremely long. In addition, you can check the position of your keywords in Google through the Google AJAX API, and by using more than one Yahoo API key. (If you don't know what this last sentence means, don't worry about it.)
Keywords
Speaking of keywords, you can easily import a list of as many keywords as you want, from a website, a .txt file, Google Suggest or Wordtracker. I get quite a bit of use out of the automatic keyword suggestion tool that’s built right in. The keyword builder feature will help you create compound keywords, starting from the individual words you provide, which will save you a lot of time when you’re setting up your site’s keywords within its profile.
Check Out Your Competitors
Add your competitors’ URLs to the run and you can directly compare your rankings with theirs. Target the keywords you want, get to work, and over time you’ll (hopefully) be able to watch their rankings drop while yours increase. You can also get a visibility overview of your site compared to theirs:
I Could Go On and On…
But I won’t – there are so many features available with this software, and you can learn more about them from the product’s website, where they describe them better than I can.
But I’ll tell you this – once you’ve tried the 30 DAY FREE TRIAL you’ll be so impressed you’re gonna want it! Yep, a 30 day fully functional free trial – so here’s my suggestion: download the software, set up your profile, add your keywords and run the program (put your competitor's URLs in there too). Work on your site optimization and build some inbound links. 29 days later, run it again (set it up to run automatically so you don’t forget) and see if you’ve made progress.
It gets addictive when you start seeing your site get increasingly better search engine rankings, and with the program starting at $99, not too expensive even if you use it only for one site.
Bonus
When you download the free trial, you’ll also get a 30 day trial of Advanced Link Manager. I haven’t used this software yet, but with it you can find out who links to your site, what keywords they use, and track the status of your links. You can also easily discover where your competition is getting their links.
Got paid links, you bad boy or girl? If so, you can monitor them using this software, and get warning emails if a link is taken down. That alone could save you a bundle of money over time.
If you download the free trial and try out the program(s) I’d love to hear your opinion. Just leave a comment below.
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Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life
Fascinated by the law and politics of stem cell research? Interested in exploring how public opinion on gay marriage relates to the recent Proposition 8 challenge in the federal district court in San Francisco? If you are considering writing a seminar or independent study paper on a topic relating to religion and the law, there are a wide array of topics that fall under this heading. The Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life, hosted by the Pew Foundation, offers a great variety of resources to supplement your legal research.
Some of the topics include the religious dimensions in bioethics, gay marriage, and public schools. The Pew Forum website offers short articles, research reports, population surveys, books, and datasets. It is a great resource for starting your research on a variety of topics in law and religion.
The death penalty page, for instance, features the official statements of various religious groups on the death penalty. In addition, this page includes reports reconsidering the death penalty in the United States, and poll results demonstrating support for the death penalty by a majority of Americans. Some other interesting items found on the Pew Website include surveys on discrimination against Muslims, international restrictions on the practice of religion, and the conflict between religion and evolution.
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Counter-Moonbattery Alert: Throw the Bum Out
A Tea Party activist group in New Jersey has been given the green light by a state court to initiate a recall petition effort against Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.
There's no question the odds of success are slim: A successful recall vote requires a fourth of the state's registered voters to sign the petition in order to get the issue on the fall ballot (Menendez' term ends in January of 2013).
That would mean roughly 1.3 million such signatures are needed.
"Given the will of the people embodied in our state organic law, and the dearth of clear precedent nullifying the people's enactments, we accordingly decline at this juncture to find our state constitutional provision and related stature permitting recall of a United States Senator to be unconstitutional," the Appeals Court found.
The opinion added, "The silence of the federal Constitution [on recall] may well result in the conclusion that it may be done."
The State Supreme Court has not even chimed in yet, so don't hold your breath for a first-ever U.S. Senator recall.
What do the Democrats say about this? Exactly: "Tea Partiers are RACISTS!" It must get real tired to have but one retort for any activism against a Democrat politician who is not a pure-blood cracker.
If Menendez gets ousted, he's always got shadow-puppeteering.
Hat tip: The Daily Caller.
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