Keyword vs Site rank

[Robert]

Is there a website or tool to use to see you rank in the engines(google, yahoo etc) For a new site is long way to find the rank...

And i think its important to see the progress of the work

Robert

[Brian Turner]

Personally, I always do a manual check.

There is software out there that will do this for you, but:

1. When they use a search engines API, you can get very inaccurate results (it's an especially common problem reported with the Google API)

2. Software that doesn't use a search engine's API could be shut down


So a manual check will be more accurate - BUT it also provides the context of your ranking - ie, it shows you which other sites and pages are also ranking near you. Personally, I consider this to be useful information - even if I don't record it, I can still recognise who the direct competitors in the same ranking area are, and plainly see significant movements or changes in this.

For manual checks in Google, I set preferences to 100 result per page, then use the "Find..." feature of the browser to find a domain quickly.

If it's not in the first 100 results, it's not optimised...

If you want to use a software solution, you can do far worse than use the DigitalPoint keyword ranking checker here:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/

Hope that helps.