How do you check your rankings in Inktomi and Fast?

[Bio4ce]

My site is mainly focused at obtaining a good ranking in google. But I would like to know how well it does in Inktomi and Fast. How would I do this?

Thanks.

:)

[Stefan]

[search.positiontech.com...] is good for pure Inktomi results ( I hope that's ok for TOS, my apologies if not). For Fast, just do KW searches on Lycos or Alltheweb. Google is where most of my hits come from though.

[Marcia]

For Ink it also works well at MSN search [search.msn.com], unless there are a lot of Looksmart listings to go through. It still pays to look there because that gives a good idea of how competitive given search terms are, and also whether it pays to do Ink paid pages because MSN is the biggest advantage of that.

Last I looked it also worked at [hotbot.co.uk...] (you have to include the www).

For FAST, you can check at [alltheweb.com...] and at Lycos, either in the US or UK. It's good to check both alltheweb and Lycos, the picture looks a little different.

I hope no one posts any of those tools that are out there now. It's easy enough to check right at the search engines, and some of them aren't too wild about automated queries. Also, there's more to see than just the site's rankings by checking right at the search engines themselves.

[Muskie]

My company's site is a bit weird in that AllTheWeb and Google come about neck and neck with referrals. We don't have a very competitive area, we get most of our referrals for jokes that a certain staff member has posted. Google wins if you count all the Google.countries of course. I never cared enough to add it up with Lycos results added to AllTheWebs, Google would still win I'd bet.

I always check by hand, to speed things up I finally got smart and bookmarked searches I do about once a month. I used Opera and sorted them by keywords in folders then a link to the search result for each major search engine. Saves typing and definitely doesn't violate any terms of use service agreements.

Cheers,

Muskie