How do I know on which keywords my site is ranking

[raviseo]

helllo all
Please anyone can tell me how do i know on wich keywords my site is ranking in all major search engines without giving any keywords, it means i have tried diffrent tools but i have to put some keywords and they generate the report but i want without giving any keyword i should no on wich keyword my site is ranking thanks :)

[tedster]

Hello Ravi, and welcome to the forums.

First, know that we do not mention specific tools here (see the Forum Charter [webmasterworld.com]).

The kind of tool you are hoping for would be a computational nightmare. It would need to spider your entire site, create every possible combination of keyword phrase, and then do all those searches. And even then, if you are ranking for a term that uses keywords that are not on your pages (because of backlink anchor text, for instance) it would still miss that.

What matters is the keywords that bring you traffic, and that you can see by analyzing your server logs. When there's a visitor from a search result, the referer for that page request carries a string that tells your server what the search term was. Most analysis and tracking software will do this for you.

In addition, Google gives you some of that information within a Webmaster Tools account. I don't think any of the other search engines offer that kind of data, however.

So in short, exhaustive ranking data isn;t practical and in the big picture, it doesn't really matter. But traffic data does have practical value and you CAN find all the keywords that bring you traffic by analyzing your server logs.

[Reno]

I'd also add that there are a number of free perl scripts that you can install that will show you which keyword phrase was utilized at each search engine for every visitor that you get. After you install the program, you simply add a short snippet of code to every page that you wish to monitor. To find out exactly where you rank, then you can access your admin login to view the traffic from each engine, then click each entry to see which page it brings you to in the various search services. If you do not already have a favorite cgi script archive, then run a search at Google and look in the section that is called something like "Logging Statistics".

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[raviseo]

mainly thanks folks :) for the info yeh i have been using some tracking codes hitslink statcounter google analytics for this i was hoping any tool anyways the info u provided is realy helpful to me looking farward the same responces from u guys thanks again :)

[piatkow]

Remember that subtle differences in key phrases can produce some radically different results. I occasionallu cross check "Widgets in Elbonia", "Widgets Elbonia" and "Elbonia Widgets" and can get different positions in the SERPS.

There are the phrases that you think people would use and the phrases that they do use. They don't always match. I did a lot of work on my site after finding that while "Elbonia Widgets" was returned at number 3 "Widgets in Elbonia" wasn't in the first hundred. In the years since then the searches for the problem phrase have totalled less than a dozen.