Google Loves Me, Loves Me … NOT!
What’s next in the ever-changing, mindboggling computer age? Virtual plucking.
That sentimental, psychic ritual you’ve always performed in a garden or the dark recesses of a florist’s shop has rooted online. Grab a digital flower, removing its petals one-by-one to answer the mysteries of love. “She loves me. … She loves me not. … She loves me. …”
If only there was a flower which we could pick the petals of and tell that Google loves me or not… hmmm but amazingly enough there are other ways to tell how much Google loves you.
Since we are on the topic of flowers I am going to pretend that these methods of checking your love with Google as petals.
Petal One: Checking Your Content/Keywords in Google
One handy tool that will show you what Google thinks your pages consist of is located here:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Just type in your URL and tick off website content and you will get a listing of the major keywords Google has for your content. If your targeted keyword or keywords are not listed, then you have to do some re-writing.
Petal Two: Checking Your Backlinks in Google
If you want to find out how many backlinks your site has in Google, just open up Google Search and type in:
link: yourURL
and it will show you the number of backlinks you have.
Since Google doesn’t give you all your existing backlinks, many webmasters also use Yahoo! to find a more exact number of links your site has on the web.
Just open Yahoo! and type in: linkdomain: yourURL
Petal Three: Checking Your Indexed Pages in Google
You can see how many of your pages are indexed in Google by using the site command.
Just type into Google Search:
site: yourURL
A little while back, having your pages indexed in Google’s Supplemental Index caused webmasters much stress as it seemed Google was judging these pages as “second class” pages. Since then, Google no longer uses the Supplementary Label in grading pages but that doesn’t mean a supplementary index doesn’t exist; just that Google has promised to crawl and consider these pages as well in any search query.
Petal Four: Checking Your Google Cache
You can also check to see the Google Cache of your site by using the cache command. You will also discover when it was last retrieved.
Just type into Google Search:
cache: yourURL
Petal Five: Checking Your PageRank within Google
Another tricky issue is PageRank. This is supposed to be the heart of Google’s ranking system created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; each link is considered a “vote” for your page and the higher the number of “votes” you have, the higher the PR your page receives. However, again Google is using “smoke and mirrors” to conceal your true PageRank mainly to cut out abuse and manipulation of their results. Some experts say PageRank still counts, other say it doesn’t.
You can check your Google PageRank here:
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am and is filed under SEO |
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