How to Find Out Website Rankings
You've just launched a website and you want to know how many visitors it is attracting. Moreover, you want to see how your site compares to others. There are several tools that provide this information. However if you are using a template site, such as Wordpress.com, you may be limited to how many programs you can use to chart your site's rankings. Those sites often have some statistical capabilities built-in that you can utilize. There are several sites that can help obtain this data for your website.
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Go to Ranking.com. This site is perhaps the most applicable site to all users. All sites will require you to add something to the site so the service can verify that you have management capabilities. On Ranking.com, all that is needed is an e-mail address. You can post the address in one of your blog comments, even on Wordpress.com, and Ranking.com can begin tracking your site.
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Try out Google Analytics. It is one of the more popular sites for tracking other sites. And since Google.com is itself the most popular search engine on the Internet, it has a leg up on most competition for analyzing Web traffic. To add your site, you will have to add code, which means you cannot utilize Analytics on sites that don't allow you to add such code.
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Use Quantcast.com. If you are a Wordpress.com user, your site is already using it and some stats are available, such as the number of visitors and where they are coming from. For most site users, that information is what's most important anyway.
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Use Alexa.com to track your site. Alexa is one of the earliest services providing ranking and site visit information. All of the sites will offer graphs to show you trends and most will provide listings of the rankings of the top websites.
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Consider upgrading on these free sites by paying for more detailed information. Some even advertise ways to compare your site's performance against your competitors.
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Tips & Warnings
Check out what is already available if you are using a template site.
You may have limited abilities to install the necessary code for some of the services.
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