Forum Moderators: open
My problem is that it takes so long to look through maybe 75 pages to find my site. Is there a way to find, for example, that searching for "whateverkeyword" my site is listed on page 60 or whatever without looking through all the pages?
Thanks, Peter
The first thing is the "ie" - this tells google to list the pages for displaying in internet explorer's search panel.
The second thing is the "&num=100" which tells google to display 100 results.
This is about as good as it gets, as far as I know
You can, of course, use the Google API [google.com] to automate the job. The Google Hacks book is a great place to start learning about that tool.
I did notice a little difference in the rankings using the different search methods, but it will sure be easier to track my progress this way.
Mohamed_E: Actually, I treat being beyond page 2 as "nowhere to be found." But by checking my ranking I can test the results of using different keywords in my title and description and homepage text.
I'm just a retired old man with a not-for-profit website for a hobby so this isn't as serious to me as it is to many of you business people. But I am still very proud of my Google acomplishment: Being listed #1 in the results searching for "onekeyword." It took over two years.
Weight loss is a big business and I'm sure there are a lot of companies out there that would like to be in my position. Now, just recently, I discovered that "anotherkeyword" gets twice as many searches as "onekeyword" so I'm working on that.
Thanks for your posts!
P.S.
The above was edited as suggested in the following post.
[edited by: peterinwa at 3:23 pm (utc) on Oct. 8, 2003]
As to the differences in results: An ordinary google search will show some results from same site that are indented. These results are not included in the "ie?" type search.
/claus
