Step 7 - Maintain (Cont.)

Check Your URL Listing

The position your web site enjoys in the search engine results constantly fluctuates for a variety of reasons:

• The Internet is growing.
• New web sites are being added and deleted from search engines daily.
• Competitors change the content of their Webpage content and thus they changed position.
• Search engines change their algorithms.

How to check your position by search engine? You can check your URL manually with each search engine. Some of the search engines make this easy, and some don't. I suggest that you simply search for your domain name, if you are indexed it will show up. Once you have ascertained that your Website has in fact been indexed, then you can check how it is performing under the terms you believe it should be found under. To check your position for specific terms or phrases, enter each of your keyword phrases in each engine one at a time, and check the results. If you place well, you'll know that for the term you just checked, you have covered the bases, and can move on to the next term. If not, you will need to review your content, meta tags, alternative tags, coding, etc. for errors.

Should a website that's performing OK be resubmitted? No. Over submitting will hurt the performance of your Website, can cause it to be dropped from the search engine index.

So how do you check to see if your webpages are registered and listed with a search engine? URL Checker. This link will provide you results from: Google, Yahoo!, Google Directory (DMOZ), Ask and Live Search, including the number of pages indexed.

If your pages were previously listed and are now missing, e-mail the search engine Webmaster. If you receive no response re-submit your pages using this add url feature.

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