Predicting Your Position on Google Search Results

Say you have a site, and you’re aiming to optimize for several keywords. It’s always easy to check on your position on Google’s search results pages if you’re on the first few pages–even better if you’re on front page. But if you have a lot of keywords to optimize for, it can become tedious to have to manually do a search and browse through the pages to look for your position.

The solution: online tools that do the queries and get your precise position or rank. We’ve seen several, but some tools would only predict your page rank (which is great, but would not take into consideration other factors in doing a Google search such as keyword relevancy and authority.

SEOchat has such a tool, and the site checks your URL’s position for a keyword search. It even checks across multiple data centers and languages, so you can more accurately predict your position even while Google updates its indexes.

Simply key in your site’s URL, and the keywords you’re checking for, and select the appropriate language and number of datacenters to search in. After hitting submit, you will then be shown how well your site fares in various datacenters.

The tool is limited to the first 100 results (or first ten pages) of a google search, though. If you’re not in that range, it probably means you’re not optimizing for those keywords enough!