Check search engine visibility?

Good online tools for search engine visibility checks?

[nfinland]

Hi,

Could you recommend some good online tools were one could check the visibility for a web site (=how many pages are indexed).

I have used marketleap, but would like to check for visibility on other SEs also. Marketleap checks Alltheweb, AltaVista, Google/AOL and HotBot/Inktomi.

If you have info on how to check the visibilty with a syntax in the search query that will also do (url:http://mysite.com/).

[caine]

personally, i just do manual checks of kw's on the top traffic/ROI engines.

Engines i check at least once a month are as follows. G, ATW, Teoma, Yahoo, Hotbot, Ink, MSN, DMOZ, AV, and pretty much forget about the rest, knowing that most take feeds in one way or another from the above.

[George]

nfinland
In the past I have tried most of them, but now I do it by hand.
It is easy enough to set up favourites for different query strings, or put the links into word or Excel if necessary.

You may ask why do I do it by hand when I can automate it?

Because I want to know what my "Ad" looks like on the page, how it compares to the competition, and see if I would click on it? Then, does it click through to the right page (Is the site optimised correctly) or is the s/e for some reason offering the wrong page, due to some inept internal linking.

You might laugh, it happens when you have several low competition phrases on one page.

Also, I only want to know about a handful of s/es. Why get No 1 on a site that will send you next to zero business?
getting a conversion rate from 1% to 2% on google has got to be worth more than every other s/e put together at present.

There are apparent or real dangers to using them. S/E naturally do not like them, as they take wodges of their bandwidth. Several people here say they have been "removed" from an index for using these tools.

So, with out answering your question, I ask you, why do you want to know? Sorry to be so unhelpful!
George

[George]

Very succinct caine :)

[nfinland]

I also do the "keyword checking" manually myself, but what I wanted to know was how to check what pages of my web site are indexed.

(I know Google and Alltheweb has indexed all my pages, Inktomi about 50 % and Altavista only 20-30 %.)

[George]

nfinland,
Sorry about that, completely mis-read your question!
No, not something I do outside of google and alltheweb. Just had a look through msn, and I struggled to get anything to work there.

However, I did turn this up, It is Dannys latest summary:
[searchenginewatch.com...]

If you scroll down it has some detail on url/site search.
Does this help?
George

[nfinland]

Thanks - I will look into the article...