If you have a website, I bet you wouldn't like your site to be ranked 1,000th or above in any search engine. Surprisingly, most website owners doesn't even know what rankings they have for the keywords they would like to be ranked in.

In the internet world, the challenge is getting people to find your site, and the method people use to search websites is by search engines.

These ranking tools will assist you in determining what your website's rank is for a certain keyword.

Before doing SEO for any site, it is best to take note of the rankings for each of the keyword you would optimize. In this way, you will know if your SEO activities are having an effect or not.

I remember hearing a quote from somebody, "What gets measured, gets done".

Ranking Tools

Google ranking tool
URL: http://www.nichebot.com/ranking/


Enter your site and keyword and choose to look at the first 100, first 200, up to first 1000 results if your site is ranked for that keyword.

PRSearch ranking tool
URL: http://www.prsearch.biz/

Same as above but you can input multiple keywords for google rankings. It also has a ranking checker for Yahoo and MSN.

GoogleRankings.com
URL: http://www.googlerankings.com/

Enter a keyword and your site and get your ranking from google, yahoo and msn in one go. You need to have a google API key to use this.

You can get a google api key from http://www.google.com/apis/


Google Datacenter Watch Tool
URL:http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php

Check out the different ranking results for different datacenters.

The last tool is also useful during google "dances". This is the period when google is implementing algorithm changes or PR updates. You will notice different rankings for some datacenters.

So there you have it. Some pretty neat ranking tools for google, yahoo, and MSN.