OT: Finding Page Rank in Google

Suppose you typed "Animal" into Google and got 2 million hits, and you
know that one of those hits is a page on one of your websites. If it was
one of the top hits, then it would obviously show up on the first page.
But suppose it ranks somewhere in the bottom 10%. Is there a way to find
out where it ranks without clicking through 200,000 pages of links?

To put it another way, I'd like to know if my page ranks #1,220,000 or
#1,901,033 out of 2 million hits for "Animal." How can I find out where
it ranks?

Thanks.

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You can find your ranking with various search engines here:
http://googlerankings.com/index.php

For google, you will need a SOAP API Key. If you do not have one, let us know
the site and the search term you're interested in and we can check for you.

just thought I would say, great question and great answer

cheers

k

bregent wrote:

You can find your ranking with various search engines here:
http://googlerankings.com/index.php

For google, you will need a SOAP API Key. If you do not have one, let us know
the site and the search term you're interested in and we can check for you.

Wow, interesting response. I don't even know what a SOAP API Key is;
I'll have to check that out.

Anyway, I have over two dozen websites, and there are lots of page
rankings I'd like to check out. But what interests me most is an article
I wrote as part of Google's Knol project.

The article is titled "Bill Gates" and is located at
http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/bill-gates/1i6e04re3w2kp/4#
When you type "Bill Gates" into Google, you get several million hits,
and I'm curious to know where this one ranks.

Thanks!

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If you don't know what a SOAP key is then you probably never requested one
either - and google is no longer assigning them so you are out of luck on that
one. The article you sited does not show up in the top 1000 google rankings or
in Ask's top 200...but you did pretty good on MSN and Yahoo. You are in
position 159 on MSN and 86 on Yahoo.

Bear in mind though when G says something like 2m results they don't
actually display all of them - ie there's not actually 200,000 pages of
results numbered 1 thru 2,000,000. There results stop at about 10,000 so
beyond that your page effectively is not ranked atall. With the API you can
only get 1000 results.

In all realism you have 2 hopes of getting a page ranked for "Bill Gates" -
Bob Hope and no hope. You'll be up against lots of authorative
media/business sites which are pretty much unbeatable. I'm guessing your
page is a negative portrayal of him in which case you'd have a much better
chance of ranking by targetting negatve keywords eg "Bill Gates is evil" or
some such.

Cheers,
Jon

"David Blomstrom" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

bregent wrote:
You can find your ranking with various search engines here:
http://googlerankings.com/index.php

For google, you will need a SOAP API Key. If you do not have one, let us
know the site and the search term you're interested in and we can check
for you.


Wow, interesting response. I don't even know what a SOAP API Key is; I'll
have to check that out.

Anyway, I have over two dozen websites, and there are lots of page
rankings I'd like to check out. But what interests me most is an article I
wrote as part of Google's Knol project.

The article is titled "Bill Gates" and is located at
http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/bill-gates/1i6e04re3w2kp/4# When
you type "Bill Gates" into Google, you get several million hits, and I'm
curious to know where this one ranks.

Thanks!

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http://www.geobop.org/ | http://www.invisible-republic.org/
http://www.billysoft.org/ (Microsoft)
http://www.freedomware.us/Topics/Mac_vs_PC/

bregent wrote:

If you don't know what a SOAP key is then you probably never requested one
either - and google is no longer assigning them so you are out of luck on that
one. The article you sited does not show up in the top 1000 google rankings or
in Ask's top 200...but you did pretty good on MSN and Yahoo. You are in
position 159 on MSN and 86 on Yahoo.

Thanks for the tips and the feedback.

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Jon Spivey wrote:

Bear in mind though when G says something like 2m results they don't
actually display all of them - ie there's not actually 200,000 pages of
results numbered 1 thru 2,000,000. There results stop at about 10,000 so
beyond that your page effectively is not ranked atall. With the API you can
only get 1000 results.

In all realism you have 2 hopes of getting a page ranked for "Bill Gates" -
Bob Hope and no hope. You'll be up against lots of authorative
media/business sites which are pretty much unbeatable. I'm guessing your
page is a negative portrayal of him in which case you'd have a much better
chance of ranking by targetting negatve keywords eg "Bill Gates is evil" or
some such.

Cheers,
Jon

Actually, I'd call it an accurate portrayal. I wrote it partly as a
challenge to Wikipedia's account, which reads like a Microsoft press
release.

But you're absolutely right. I don't have Big Media's clout, and most
people interpret anything that isn't flattering as non-authoritative.

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bregent wrote:
You can find your ranking with various search engines here:
http://googlerankings.com/index.php

For google, you will need a SOAP API Key. If you do not have one, let us
know the site and the search term you're interested in and we can check
for you.

Wow, interesting response. I don't even know what a SOAP API Key is; I'll
have to check that out.

Anyway, I have over two dozen websites, and there are lots of page
rankings I'd like to check out. But what interests me most is an article I
wrote as part of Google's Knol project.

The article is titled "Bill Gates" and is located at
http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/bill-gates/1i6e04re3w2kp/4# When
you type "Bill Gates" into Google, you get several million hits, and I'm
curious to know where this one ranks.

Thanks!

--
David Blomstrom: PolITics Expert
http://www.geobop.org/ | http://www.invisible-republic.org/
http://www.billysoft.org/ (Microsoft)
http://www.freedomware.us/Topics/Mac_vs_PC/

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