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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

AboutUs Weblog

How Do Your Google Rankings Stack Up Against Competitors?

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Track your keyword rankings - and your competitors', too!

If you’re trying to rank high in Google for your most important keywords, you’ll want to know how you’re doing over time….and how you’re doing against your top competitors, too.

Enter your top 20 keywords and keyword phrases in the AboutUs Site Report , and track how well your site is doing in Google search results over time. Keep on checking your rank as you follow the Site Report’s recommendations for improving your SEO, and change the keywords any time you want.

Because keyword rankings are relative to other websites, the Site Report also lets you enter up to five websites that compete with you for customers, or for the top spots in Google results. Did you beat out one competitor, and has another entered the race? Delete any competing website and enter a new one, whenever you like.

The AboutUs Site Report has a few new features, in addition to keyword rankings. You can use it to check whether your site is optimized to load its pages quickly – an important factor in keeping visitors, and making sure they don’t bounce quickly to another site. The Site Report can also tell you whether your site is going to look good on mobile phones, and show you how influential it is in social media.

All these features are in addition to the Site Report’s survey of the most important SEO elements on your site. We analyze up to 100 pages and tell you what you’re doing right, what you need to fix, and how to do it. The Site Report is written in the same plain, jargon-free language you’ve come to expect from AboutUs, whether you’re reading our blog or our Learn articles.

Questions about the Site Report? Call 1-800-226-8887 (or 503-488-5763), and press 1. We’re always happy to hear from you.