Keeping tabs on your real estate websites natural search listings is an important thing. As a webmaster, knowing where you stand is the first step in improving your real estate websites search standings.
There are many ways to find out where your real estate website is ranked in the natural search listings. Everything from software monitoring programs to web based scripts can all be used to find out how your real estate website ranks. One of the most accessible and accurate means to do this checking is simple and requires nothing more then your favorite browser.
Step 1. Open your browser.
Step 2. Go to your favorite search engine (or the search engine you wish to check)
Step 3. Most search engines have an ‘advanced search’ option. This will allow you to set the number of results displayed. In Google, for example, the maximum number of search results displayed is 100. Select the max number of search results.
Step 4. Enter your search. Remember you want to be searching for your real estate website under the keywords of your site.
Step 5. Hold down the ‘ctrl’ and ‘f’ keys (the ‘apple’ and the ‘f’ key for Mac users) This will open a little box entitled search. Now enter the URL of your website into the search box. This will allow you to search all the listings on the page at once. For example, in the case of Google, you can search 100 search results at a time.
Step 6. Keep searching through each page until you come to your site. At this point you can guesstimate or do some basic counting and determine where your real estate website is listed. To make life easier, some search engines, such as Yahoo, number their results.
Thats it. Easy as pie. These steps can be done in a matter of seconds. It need not take time. More over because you are using real search results as opposed to results generated via a script, the overall results can be much more accurate. Plus you can do it from any computer anywhere - makes working on the go a breeze.
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