I feel silly asking but....

[wachia]

I admit I am new to this but I have been reading everything I can find and still can't figure out how you know how you can figure out what your ranking is.
I know I am listed and my site shows up in pure search but when I look under my keywords I can't find it. So I am either ranked 100,000,000,000 hehe or I'm just plain stupid.

[heini]

Wachia - welcome to the board!

Which engine are you talking about?

My first thought was AV; they make it a habit to bury newly indexed pages.

[DaveN]

I think it's inktomi : pure search

may be a stupid question but have you optimised for INK

DaveN

[wachia]

Hi,
Thanks for the welcome :)
I did everything I could find about optimising for Ink. Like I said I'm very new at this or I would show you my site lol. I always see different people say things like my site is in the top whatever and I just wondered how they know that without going through every keyword they use and doing a search.

[tigger]

>I did everything I could find about optimising for Ink

So long as you paid that would be the first option, work on your title & description that's the best way to get ranking in Ink

[Jaze]

I've been struggling to find good info on how best to optimise for Ink. Is there any one good resource that I could use? (free please!)

[tigger]

Hi Jaze & welcome to WmW

best place to start here :) and it's free

Use the site search & library it will give you loads of background information, but one tip with ink, work on a good title & description, that's just for starters

[Jaze]

Thanks for the Welcome. Been lurking on a.i.se but seems to be a lack of in depth information coming from there as late.

My first post may disappear, as I realised the answer was directly above, and also discovered navigation :)

It seems as though Ink is similar to Google?

[tigger]

:)

I should have seen that as well :)

Yes your correct ink pages do seem to rank well with google as well, although google does take other considerations into account other than your current credit card details - sorry just had to get that dig in :)