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keyword rank checking tools on search engine

Tracking keyword ranking and position on search engines is more important part in SEO. Two methods are there to check keyword ranking and position on search engines. The first method is basic one, you can track keyword ranking and position on search engines by simple typing and searching results on search engines.

Suppose if you want to search particular keyword ranking and position on Google, just type keyword on Google and search for the position on search results page. It's somewhat hard and take more time to search keyword ranking on search engines.

Second method is tracking keyword ranking in search engines using tools. This is the easiest method. Many SEO people use this method. Maximum all SEO people use keyword ranking tools to analyze keyword position regularly. There are many tools are available to check keyword ranking and position on search engines. In this post I'm listing some of the Google keyword ranking tools to check keyword ranking.

What are the best Google keyword rank checking tools :-

SEMrush :

SEMruch is one of the best tools to track the keyword ranking in Google. Just type your blog/website url or particular page url on SEMrush search box. You will get all the information about the keywords that page ( url ) is ranking for.

Google Position Checker Tool By Serchenginegenie:

Serchenginegenie providing this Google rank checker tool to check the keyword position on Google search engine. It one of the simple and powerful tool.

SEO SERP Workbench :

SEO SERP Workbench is a chrome extension. Many professional blogger also using this tool. Omiod providing this tool. You can also check the amount of it's users while downloading.

Keyword Position Tool By Smallseotools :

Smallseotools providing keyword position tool . This is also one of the useful too to track keyword position on all major search engines.

Google Keyword Position Checker Tool by Moonsy's:

Moonsy providing Google keyword check tool to check the position of keywords on Google search engine.

Free Keyword Rank Checker Tool by SERPS:

SERPS providing this tool. Using this tool your can check keyword ranking on both Google and Yahoo search engines.

Like these many keyword rank checker tools are available. I will also update this list as soon as possible.

How To Increase Alexa Rank of Your Blog

Alexa Rank : Alexa is a web informational service company. Every website/blog has its own Alexa rank. Generally people estimate the strength of your blog based on your blog Alexa ranking. Alexa is a trust site and gives ranking based on quality traffic to your site/blog. Generally Alexa will show the Rank in Country , Percent of Visitors , Bounce Rate , Site links to your blog and many more. Alexa gives more useful information to a blog. In this post we are going to discuss about the importance and how to increase to increase the Alexa rank of your blog.

Importance of Alexa rank :

Alexa is not directly effect on your blog SEO. Alexa rank will effect on your online marketing business. Alexa rank helps to attract the advertisers. If your blog has good Alexa rank , then advertisers will contact you to spend money on your blog.

Through Alexa ranking, you can find out your competitor and you can compare your blog with others.

How to Increase Alexa Rank of Your Blog:

Each blog can get Alexa rank after getting some traffic. So to get Alexa rank try to get traffic to your blog. Your blog Alexa rank will improve by getting quality traffic and back links to your blog. Alexa following some quality metrics to give alexa rank to a blog/website. By following some quality tips we can improve our blog alexa rank. But the main thing is traffic, any ranking will depend on blog traffic. Without traffic no tips will follow.

Follow below tips to Increase Alexa Rank of Your Blog

Claim you site/blog on Alexa:
This is one of the important step for who really want to increase their blog Alexa ranking. So to claim your website , just create an account on Alexa and add your blog to your Alexa account.

Use Alexa tools bar :
After claiming your site/blog on Alexa , next step you have to do is , install Alexa tool bar on your browser and also add Alexa widget to your blog. Actually your Alexa rank depends on Alexa tool bar users. If more Alexa rank tool bar users visit your blog , then your Alexa rank will increase. Alexa count the traffic which comes from the browsers having Alexa tools bar.

After installing Alexa tool bar , next you have to add Alexa widget to your blog. Alexa widget helps to track the traffic of your blog. So add Alexa widget to improve your Alexa rank.

Traffic : Get traffic to your site/blog.
The best method to get immediate traffic to your blog is use social networking sites to promote your blog. So use Facebook ,Twitter to promote and drive traffic to your blog. For new blogger this is the best way to boost their blog Alexa rank.

Your Alexa rank will dramatically improve if your blog traffic will increase. So main concentrate on your blog traffic. Try to get traffic form the visitors , especially who installed Alexa tool bar in their browsers.

Content: Maintain high quality content. Write unique content and post on your blog. Also post quality content on your blog regularly. Not only Alexa , any of them will give moire importance to quality content. That's why quality content is king.

Make your content sharable. Try to place social media share buttons below your post content. your Alexa rank will increase , if your blog visitors more likely share your content on social media.

Reviews : Get the review of your blog on Alexa by your visitors and also write Alexa reviews on your blog and give link to Alexa.

Quality Back links : Building back links : Get back links from high quality sites.
Back links also plays major role in creasing Alexa rank. Try to get quality back links , i.e get back links from high page rank site/blogs.

Following these above tips to increase Alexa rank of your blog.

check the number of pages indexed on Google

Your blog will get traffic after your blog posts/pages starts displaying on search engines. One of the major search engine in the world is Google. If your blog pages appear on Google search engines then you can get more traffic to your blog. Your blog pages will display in Google only if Google index your blog. So after starting and posting articles on your blog, wait for some time to get indexed by search engines. If your blog pages will not indexed by Google even after few weeks , then it is better to submit your blog to Google search engine. Google bot will crawl your blog and index your blog pages/posts on Google.

Checking indexed/listed pages in Google : Checking indexed pages of your blog on Google means finding out the pages of your blog that are displaying on Google.

Need to check the number of your blog pages indexed by Google :

It is better to check the number of pages indexed on Google. If you Google index more pages of your blog then automatically your blog traffic increased.So keep on checking whether your pages are displayed in search engine or not. One more important thing is try to get your blog posts in the first page of the search results.Generally people visit the sites in displayed in the first page of the search results.

So try to post quality content on your blog , Because Google gives more priority to the quality content. Google always trying to give best results to their clients. That's why if you have worth content , one day your blog will display in top position . But position will vary more frequently , because of the competition. So keep try to check your blog posts whether indexed or not , if indexed then what is position in search results.

Through this you can find out the unwanted pages indexed on search engines . You can stop indexing those unwanted pages using Robots.txt file.

How to check the number of blog pages indexed by Google

It is really simple to check the number of pages indexed on Google. Just type site colon and blog url on Google.

Follow below steps to check the number of web pages indexed on Google.

Step 1 : Go to Google.com

Step 2 : Enter site:domain name.com

Step 3 : Click on search

Then all your indexed pages will display. By this you can find out how many of you web pages indexed in Google. You can also use this same method to check how many of your web pages are indexed by Bing and Yahoo.

check on what date the pages are indexed on Google

Checking pages indexed by Google:

After start posting articles on your blog/website, it is better to check whether your website/blog is being indexed properly by Google or not. Not only Google you have to check your blog indexing on all major search engines.

How to check on what date your blog pages are indexed by Google.

It is possible to find out when your blog posts are indexed by Google.We already discussed how to check how many of your blog web pages are indexed by Google. Now I'm going to show you how to check when your blog posts are indexed by Google.

Follow below steps to check on what date your pages are indexed on Google

Step 1 : Go to Google.com
Step 2 : Type site:yourdomainname.com/year and click on search or click on enter

Ex. ( site:Smartbloggerstips.blogspot.com/2013)

Step 3 : Now it will list all pages indexed at that time.

It will show all pages which are indexed in 2013. Like this you can search pages that are indexed on a particular date.

Add a Google Sitemap to Blogger Blog

Submitting sitemap to Blogger :

Sitemaps plays major role in SEO. Search engines uses sitemaps to find out the pages on your Blogger blog. By adding Google sitemap to your Blogger blog, no need to ping your blog manually when ever you update your Blogger blog. Submitting your Blogger blog sitemap to Google webmaster tool is more important and also submitting a sitemap to Blogger is also important. It helps search engines to discover the pages that search engine bot missed.

How to Add a Google Sitemap to your Blogger Blog:

It is easy to add Google sitemap to Blogger blogs. First generate your blogger site map from trusted sitemap generator sites or just replace yourblogname with your Blogger blog Url in the code on step 4. We already discussed about how to add your blog sitemap to your Google webmaster tool. Now in this post we are going to discuss about adding Google sitemap to your Blogger blog.

Follow below steps to add a Google sitemap to your Blogger blog

Step 1 : Go to Blogger Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Settings and Click on Search Preferences

Step 3 : Click on edit custom robots.txt under Crawlers and indexing

Step 4 : Paste below code in custom robots.txt box

User-agent: *

Disallow: /search

Allow: /

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2501&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=3001&max-results=500

Step 5 : Click on Save changes.

Like this you can add Google sitemap to your Blogger.

Note : If your Blogger blog contains below 500 posts , then add only Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 , No need to add code below this line.

If your Blogger blog contains post more that 500 and below 1000 then add below two lines , no need add remaining code .

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

Like this add Google sitemap to your Blogger properly.

How to use Google webmaster tools

Google Webmaster Tools( Google Search Console):

Google providing Google webmaster tools, now it's called a Google Search Console. Using Google webmaster tools you can see all statistic reports of your blog pages. It will give the complete report about your blog pages visibility on Google search engine. Generally all bloggers use Google Search Console. Especially to submit your blog sitemap to google search engine, we must need Google Search Console(Google Webmaster Tools).

Google providing mainly two tools for bloggers. The main two tools are Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Google analytics is best tools to monitor your blog/website. Google webmaster is another best tool comes with more features to optimize blogs/website.

How to submit your blog to webmaster tools :

It is easy to submit your blog to Google webmaster tools. You can submit multiple blogs to a same Google webmaster account. With single Google webmaster tools account we can maintain multiple blogs. To submit your blog to Google webmaster, you must need a Gmail account. So if you don't have a Gmail account first create Gmail and then start submitting your blogs to Google webmaster.

Follow below steps to submit your blog to Google webmaster tools.

Step 1 : Log into Google Webmaster

Step 2 : Click on ADD A SITE button

Step 3 : Enter your blog and click on Continue button

Like this you can add multiple blogs. All your added blogs will appear on starting page of your Google Search Console. To view your blog report just click on your blog name.

How to Use Google Webmaster Tools(Google Search Console) For SEO : Beginners Guide

Many people using Google webmaster tools to improve their blog SEO. With Google webmaster tool you can submit your blog sitemap to Google search engine. We can also submit particular web page to search engine using this tool. Like this it has many features.

Google webmaster tools features :

Crawl Report
Search Traffic
Sitemap Submission.
Google Index
Search Appearance

Search Appearance :

Under Search Appearance you can see different feature to improve your blog visibility in search engine.

Structured Data : All structured data elements information that Google located on your blog will list here.

Data Highlighter : You can improve your blog look on search engines by tagging pages.

HTML Improvements : You can improve your blog/site experience and performance by following tips mentioned here.

Sitelinks : The pages(links) appearing under Google listings are know as Sitelinks. If you don't want a particular sitelink, you can demote it using this option.

Search Traffic :

Here you can get all your blog traffic information.

Search Analytics : You can see all your blog analytics information like impressions, clicks, CTR and Position in a chart here.

Links to Your Site : You can see all information about links to your blog. It is really good to check back links to your blog.

Internal Links : You can find your blog intern links information here. You can find inter links to specific page using search box.

Manual Actions : You can see manual actions information here.

International Targeting: You can target your blog audience by settings location and language.

Mobile Usability: You can see mobile usability errors here.

Google Index :

you can see that how many pages of your blog are indexed on Google search engine here.

Index Status : To see index status of your blog, click on Index Status button under Google Index. You can see total indexed pages number here.

Content Keywords : You can see all your blog keywords list here.

Blocked Resources : You can see blocked resources information here that effect your blog webpages indexing.

Remove Urls : To remove particular urls of your blog click on Remove Urls under Google Index and click on Create a new removal request button and submit Url. This will useful to remove/delete broken links on your blog.

Crawl Report :

Here you can see crawl errors information and you can also fix them easily.

Crawl Errors : To see crawl errors click Crawl Errors tab under Crawl. If any errors listed click on errors and Fix them. After fixing, mark them as fixed.

Crawl Stats : You can see all Googlebot activities Like pages crawled per day.

Fetch as Google : This is one of the most important feature in Google Search Console. You can submit a link immediately to search engine using this feature.

How to submit Url : Click on Fetch as Google tab under Crawl and add Url and click on Fetch.

robots.txt Tester : You can edit your robots.txt file here

Sitemaps : Sitemaps feature is there in Google webmaster, using this you submit your blog sitemap to Google search engines and you can also see the pages indexed on search engine.

How to Submit sitemap: Click on Sitemaps tab under Crawl and submit sitemap.

URL Parameters: You can see URL Parameters information here. If any errors found, configure it properly.

Submit a sitemap to Google webmaster tools

Sitemap: Sitemap is a list of pages of a website/blog. Sitemaps used to inform to the search engines about the pages available on your blog for crawling. To improve your blog indexing, it is better to add your blog sitemap to Google search engines. You can use Google webmaster tools(Google Search Console) to submit your blog sitemap.

Not only for Google, submit your blog sitemap to all major search engines. In this post I'm going to show you how to submit your blog sitemap to Google search engine using Google Webmaster Tool.

How to submit a sitemap to Google webmaster tools( Google Search Console):

You can submit your blog sitemap to Google search engine, only through Google webmaster tools. To know your blog statistics report Google analytic is available. But to submit site map to Google search engine you should use Google webmaster tools. The main aim of the submitting sitemap is to help the search engine in crawling your site/log.

To submit sitemap, first you have to create sitemap for your blog. Use sitemap creation tools to create sitemap and submit it to Google webmaster tools.

Follow below steps to submit your blog sitemap to Google Search Console:

Step 1 : Log into Google Webmaster tools

Step 2 : Click on crawl tab on left side.

Step 3 : Under crawl click on sitemaps

Step 4 : Click on ADD/TEST SITEMAP button

Step 5 : Add site map in the opened box and click on submit sitemap.

That's it, sitemap submission is completed. After submitting your blog sitemap, wait for some time to see the full report about how many pages are indexed. Google webmaster will show you all the information about your blog post indexing. It will show your blog posts index status. If any error related to blog indexing occurred, it will display on your Google webmaster dashboard then you can easily rectify those errors related to indexing. Submitting a blog sitemap to Google webmaster tools is very important.

Remove Broken (Dead) Links from Google Search

Broken or dead links:
The links which redirects to 404 error page are considered as broken or dead links. It is better to fix those broken links in blogs. Two methods are there to fix broken links in blog/website. First one is redirect that error page to some other page(Home page) and second method is just delete those broken links of your blog from search engines. This posts will help you to remove broken or dead links in your blog from Google search results.

How to remove broken or dead link in your blog from Google search results:

Google webmaster is the best method to remove broken links from Google search results. Submit your blog site map to Google webmaster tool. Google bot crawl your blog after submitting your blog sitemap to Google webmaster tool. It will lists all broken links under crawl errors.

How to see broken links :

Sign in to Google webmaster tool
click on crawl errors tag.
You can see all broken links under crawl errors

To check whether those links really dead or not, copy one of the broken link below crawl errors and go to Google search engine and paste that link and search and open that link. If it is really dead then it will redirect to 404 error page .

Follow below steps to remove broken links from Google search

Step 1 : Log in to your Google webmaster tool

Step 2 : Click on your blog

Step 3 : Click on Google index button and click on Remove URLs

Step 4 : Click on Create a new removal request
Now enter broken link in that box

Step 5 : Click on Continue button.

After few hours your submitted link (broken link) will remove from Google search results. Like this you can remove broken links of your blog from Google search engine.

How to Check Keyword Ranking on Google

Checking keyword ranking in search engines regularly is more important. By checking keyword position you can find out your competitors. All SEO people will check keyword ranking on all major search engines. Generally people use this technique to rank well their blogs on search engines.
We can check keyword ranking on search engines in two ways. First way is basic and second one is using tools. In this post we are going to discuss about checking keyword ranking on Google.

How to Check Keyword Ranking on Google Manually :

The basic method of checking keyword ranking in Google is just typing the keywords in search engines box and search for the position in search engine results. This method gives accurate results.
Ex : Suppose if we want to check " How to Check Keyword Ranking on Google " Query ranking position on Google , then you have to type " How to Check Keyword Ranking on Google " on Google search box and check the position in top 100 results.
We already how to check blog indexing on Google. To check indexing just type " site:YourDomainName.com " on Google search box, then it will list all indexing pages on Google results page.
If the pages are listed on Google , then you can start checking keyword ranking on Google, just by typing keywords and searching position.

How to Check Keyword Ranking on Google Using Tools :

To check keyword ranking in Google quickly we have to use keyword ranking tools. It easy to use keyword ranking tools. To find keyword ranking with tools, we just have to type page url and keyword on tool search box. There are lot of tools available on internet.
Google webmaster also list some of the keywords ranked on Google. But some times results may vary.

But keyword ranking tools will give good results. One of the simple tool to check keyword ranking is Keyword Position Tool from Smallseotools.

What are the needs of checking keyword ranking on Google.

Checking keyword ranking for -
Tracking keyword position on search engines.
Identifying your competitors.