Small Biz Watch: Does your website rate?
By James Pethokoukis
Posted 10/21/05
Want a quick glance at how your small-business website ranks in the world of Web searches? Well, there's an interesting new tool (thanks to a pointer from Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing and the Search Engine Smarts blog developed by a search engine optimization, or SEO, company called We Build Pages.
It's called, appropriately enough, Cool SEO Tool, and it allows business owners to enter their website's URL—along with a keyword or phrase—to quickly see: (1) if the site ranks in Google's first 100 results for that keyword search; and (2) what the top results are for that keyword search. There are also additional stats for the more sophisticated SEO do-it-yourselfer.
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