Find your site’s ranking
We have been offering a free Search Engine Readiness Report here at Horizon Web Development since mid-August and although it has proven quite popular we were getting a lot of feedback about the results being confusing. So it was decided that the Search Engine Readiness Report was unnecessarily complicated for the average site owner who just wanted a simple explanation of where their site was ranked, and so something else was needed in its place.
The Search Engine Ranking Report was born! Although it sounds similar to the Search Engine Readiness Report its actually a simpler version, without the detailed information on site layout, code structure and so on, which many people found confusing. The Ranking Report is simply an investigation into how your site is ranked for several search items, which is then presented in table form within an email.
It would perhaps be better to give an example of how it works. Let's take the BBC site as an example, assuming someone wanted to know where the site ranked for particular search terms, they would need to fill a small form here. The form asks for three primary keywords or phrases that you consider the site would be well ranked for. In this example I will look for the keywords news, sport and the phrase local weather.
Once the form is submitted you just sit back and wait for the results, which will take around 24 hours.
The results email will look something like this:-
| Keyword: news | Ranked | Out Of | Page No. |
1st | 129,000,000 | 1 | |
| MSN | 1st | 517,154,712 | 1 |
| Yahoo | 4th | - | 1 |
| Keyword: sport | Ranked | Out Of | Page No. |
1st | 59,000,000 | 1 | |
| MSN | 1st | 140,000,000 | 1 |
| Yahoo | 1st | 774,000,000 | 1 |
| Keyword: local weather | Ranked | Out Of | Page No. |
1st | 102,000,000 | 1 | |
| MSN | 3rd | 21,000,000 | 1 |
| Yahoo | 58th | 254,000,000 | 6 |
Google PageRank: 9/10
Pretty impressive results for the BBC, it also highlights areas for improvement, especially regarding Yahoo and the search term local weather, (most likely do to test being conduced using being yahoo.com, the BBC are ranked sixth on yahoo.co.uk).
So if you're looking to see just how well your site is ranked give our new free service a try.
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