If you have a site online through which you make online transactions, then it is important that you know where you are ranked for your selected keywords. Finding out where you rank is not as easy as you might think, particularly if you have more than one website. If you only have one then you might be able to track it using manual searches, but if you have more than one site, you might try using one of the available rank finding sites online.

The problem with most of these is that they are not very accurate. They either give you results from the UK i.e. Google.com results rather than google.co.uk, or they use a different hub to draw their results from so you have no proper indication of your precise rankings at any given point.

The problem is made worse by the limits Google has put on the amount of searches you can carry out in an hour (currently 200). Making 200 searches is the equivalent to searching 4 keywords and browsing through the results up to page 50. If you have a few sites with several keywords each, then this can pose a big problem.

The answer to these problems would be a piece of software that can automatically search through the results on your desired keywords for your specified site, while staying within Googles search limits. The ideal software will also give you information on you competitors sites, traffic reports for individual keywords, number of backlinks etc.

Most, if not all of the software available online, will not have all of these features, let alone the option to white label it and sell it on as your own. If you are a search engine optimisation company, then your results will define your reputation, and finding software that accurately reports all of the hard work you will have been doing for your clients is a key factor in allowing your them to keep track of those results.

Your Clients will not understand your business as well as you do, so information needs to be provided that will help them to see improvement. Good software should allow this, so you can show your clients their ranking improvements month on month as well as the growth in link volumes which is driving the improvements for their site. Your clients will probably not understand the finite workings of SEO, but by providing some KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) you will enable your relationship with them to grow.

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There was a time when a reciprocal link was all that was required in order for your site to rank well. They were easy, find a site that promoted itself actively, add their link to your site, email them telling them that you had, then wait for them to add your link and there you were, ranking well, everybody happy.

However Google since Google clocked on to this, it has slowly been downgrading the worth of these reciprocal links and this is because the search engines are looking for pure, natural links.

If they detect a reciprocal link, they quite rightly assume that there has been a deal made between these sites to try and make themselves rank higher, which of course, isn’t natural.

The search engines, somewhat naive vision (particularly Google) is that the owner of a site, would find another site, be very impressed with the site, and put a link of his site to the site he has found. For example, if a window cleaner went with his family to go and stay in Devon for a week, and he found the hotel and the service so amazingly impressive that when they get home, he puts a link to the hotels site on his window cleaning site, advising anyone who is thinking of going to Devon to stay at that hotel.

Of course this is not how the search rankings developed because SEO experts began to appear and manipulated the algorithm. To start with reciprocal links worked well and were all round easy to get and set up, and easy to keep track of and manage.

Keeping in mind that you can only add a certain amount of links over a month to avoid being penalised for your link building, in order to accumulate enough link juice you will need to spend probably triple the amount of time building links to achieve top rankings than you would with one way links. If you can achieve top rankings at all with reciprocal links.

Although one way links are harder to manage than reciprocals as you cant easily keep track of the link you’re receiving back (not in the same way as reciprocals anyway), they are the most powerful type of link to get your site ranked well. There are rumours that as soon as spring 2010 reciprocal links will be devalued to zero. I do not think that this is very likely as large business will want to exchange links in a fair way with their business partners and suppliers, and surely they should not be penalised for that.

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If you are in business today, conducting transactions online via your website, you need to know where you rank for your keywords. Finding out this information is not as straight forward as you might think. If you only have one website then you might manage with manual searches, or use one of the rank providing sites available online.

The main issue with these sites is that they are not very accurate. They either give you results from the wrong region, or from too broad a region, i.e. Google.com rankings rather than Google.co.uk rankings. Also, they quite often draw their results from a different hub altogether and so do not give a proper idea of your exact at that given time.

The problem is made worse by the limits Google has put on the amount of searches you can carry out in an hour (currently 200). Making 200 searches is the equivalent to searching 4 keywords and browsing through the results up to page 50. If you have a few sites with several keywords each, then this can pose a big problem.

The solution to this problem is a partially automated piece of software that will run searches on your desired Google engine, stay within their search limits and give you accurate information every time you run it. You will also want it to give you information on your current number of backlinks, the traffic that comes from your individual keywords, information on your competitor sites etc.

Most, if not all of the software available online, will not have all of these features, let alone the option to white label it and sell it on as your own. If you are a search engine optimisation company, then your results will define your reputation, and finding software that accurately reports all of the hard work you will have been doing for your clients is a key factor in allowing your them to keep track of those results.

Your Clients will not understand your business as well as you do, so information needs to be provided that will help them to see improvement. Good software should allow this, so you can show your clients their ranking improvements month on month as well as the growth in link volumes which is driving the improvements for their site. Your clients will probably not understand the finite workings of SEO, but by providing some KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) you will enable your relationship with them to grow.

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