All of the suggestions above (except going through the results manually) rely on someone finding your page via search and clicking through from Google to you. But if your page is showing up at rank 95, chances are most people never even get that far. For new pages, and in fact, most SEO work, you should focus on what is working rather than your arbitrary rank in a search engine.
In other words, you need to think about what your goal is with SEO. While you might say that your goal is to make it to the first page of Google, but that really isn’t a useful goal. You want to get onto the first page of Google because that gives you more page views and page views turn into revenue which helps you keep maintaining your website.
So, if your goal is to get more page views, then you should focus on that rather than on where you are ranking in search. Here are some things you can do to track a new page and see if your SEO efforts are working:
1. First make sure your site and that page have been indexed by Google. The easiest way to do this is to type site:your URL into the Google search. If your site has lots of pages, it may still be hard to find the page you’re looking for. So in that case, you should go into the “Advanced search” and change the date range to when you updated the page. If the page still doesn’t show up, then wait a few days and try again.
2. Once you know your page is indexed and in Google, you should start watching your analytics for that page. When you start seeing search engine results you can track what keywords people found that page under. And this will help you determine how well optimized it is.
3. Remember that it can take several weeks for a page to show up in the search engines and then start getting page views. So don’t give up. Keep checking periodically and if you don’t see any results after 90 days, then consider doing more promotion or optimization of your page.
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All of the suggestions above (except going through the results manually) rely on someone finding your page via search and clicking through from Google to you. But if your page is showing up at rank 95, chances are most people never even get that far. For new pages, and in fact, most SEO work, you should focus on what is working rather than your arbitrary rank in a search engine.
In other words, you need to think about what your goal is with SEO. While you might say that your goal is to
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