With over 25 billion web pages in existence, most
websites are just a drop in the ocean.
If you’re not experiencing the revenue and sales you expect, it’s
time to find out where your site ranks in the search engines.
Check out these useful and free tools to get the answers:
If you sell jewelry, for example, type in “jewelry” in the search box to see where your site ranks relative to that search term.
Alexa.com reveals your site’s “traffic ranking” on the web. It other words, the pecking order of most visited or unvisited.
Ideally, you want to rank in the top 100,000 most visited sites, since those sites rake in 90% of the money on web. No joke.
This URL takes you to the extremely useful Keyword Selector
Tool, which shows you how many times a month internet users around the world search using a specific term.
For example, at the time of writing, internet users searched
for “jewelry” 619,000 times in one month!
This is a great tool to get a snap shot of demand
and to see if there’s a market for your products.
So before you go opening up a national fast-food
chain, you’ll want to know that across the whole
world wide web, “turtle stew” was only
searched 46 times in a 30 day period.
Not that popular.
How Does Your Site Measure Up to The Competition?