FAQ
What are search phrases?
Search phrases are words entered in search engines to locate relevant information. Web site stakeholders want to know that their site appears in the search results for relevant phrases in "respectable" position.
What can be measured with this tool?
You can measure the position appearance of the web site in general, or the position of certain page by including its complete URL in the "Site" line.
How can I use the tool?
You should insert the address (URL) of a web site you want to measure in the "Site" line.
You should also enter relevant search phrases to the site in the "Search words" lines. Pressing "Execute" will start the measuring process and in a few seconds the measurement results will appear.
What can I learn from measuring the web site position in search engines?
You can know how relevant your site is for the search phrases you use. If your site does not appear within the top 20 results, then the site is 'invisible' to regular people searching the web, and you should take some SEO techniques to enhance its position.
Being at the top 3 results ensures that people will enter your site when searching for those 'search phrases'.
This tool also tells you if you are the 'right' track in terms of appearance in search engines. Making changes to the page wording can change your web site position in search results, and you can verify that your changes does work and on the 'right' direction.
What is search engine "Send box"?
New sites usually enters what is called "send box" where the kept for a while to ensure that the page is not in transition. After certain time, the search engine determines that the page and its content is permanent and put it into the regular list. Repeated measuring tells you if you are past that period.
Why my site does not appears in the search results?
There might be several reasons for that:
- First: we check the first top 300 results from the query. If your web site position is lower that that it will not appear in the measuring results. (And practically will not be seen by people).
- Your site might have not been registered within the searched web sites (Google, MSN and Yahoo) and does not indexed by it. In this case you might use the adding form of the search engine to inform it about your web site.
- You might have misspelled the search phrases or use the wrong search phrases.
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