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Apr 11.2009

Hi –

How do I locate my website in Google’s search results?

For example, let’s say I recently created a website called mycoolwebsite.com and on the home page I put the phrase, “I have a car for sale and I live in san jose, CA.”

I use Google to search on “car for sale in san jose, CA”.

I would expect my website to show up in the search results somewhere … but there are hundreds if not thousands of results. Do I have to manually scan page by page for my website?

Thanks!

Saratoga Sam

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@6StringGeekApr 11.2009 — If you just want to make sure it's been indexed you can search for the url itself.
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@Saratoga_SamauthorApr 11.2009 — right - but that's not what I'm looking for.
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@donatelloApr 11.2009 — If all you want to do is "see" your listing and how it appears in Google, simply search for it using the site search parameter like this:

site:www.mycoolwebsite.com "car for sale in san jose, CA"

Enter the entire line above into the Google search box. Voila!
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@Saratoga_SamauthorApr 12.2009 — Thanks Donatello; that is useful to know but is not exactly what I'm looking for.

I'm probably doing a poor good job at describing what I'm looking for; so let me try again.

If I google search "car for sale in san jose, CA" I expect that my example website will come up in google's search results ... but will probably be way at the bottom... like on page 30 or something.

I want to determine which search results page it ends up on. Page 30? Page 40? Page 50? I can manually look through each search results page but that is very tedious.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this -- I just don't know how. Any ideas?

Thanks again!

Saratoga Sam
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@Fire_CatApr 12.2009 — meta tag?
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@Inga_Apr 13.2009 — If you use Google Webmaster Tools thingie from Google, they show you all searches your site showed up in and the position it was in under Statistics > Top Search Queries.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Hope that helps.
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@Nickfb76Apr 13.2009 — check out google webmaster tools or pay for seo software that can track your rankings. Web Position is a good tool however its a little spendy. I would stick with webmaster tools first before spending money.
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@masudApr 15.2009 — You have no way to find out the page that pops up your link unless you write some code and do the search inside your code. I have no experience on it but all I know is that you can write some code and do search and get the result into your code by using search APIs.
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@Saratoga_SamauthorApr 15.2009 — Inga - thanks for the tip.

I took a look at the Google Webmaster tools > Statistics > Top Search Queries and it gives helpful information but not specific information. What it tells you is "The top 20 queries in which your site appeared, and the percentage of the top 20 queries represented by each search."

This is helpful but it will not show where I will rank given a search string of my choice.

It appears masud is correct.
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