I've seen a couple of tools on the web that allow you to put in keywords and see that site's position on Google. Sometimes the tools only show the top 30 or 100 results. Sometimes they don't work because Google changed something. One sites says something about a Google API key? Is there a way to do this myself besides just putting the keywords into search, scanning the results and hitting next page until I find the domain? Thanks.
Google are not keen, understandably so, on automated position checking software - see: support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66357
Based on what you provide, I assume Google is trying to break these position services. I won't expect to find this using a tool in future. Thanks Thanks I gave it a try. It isn't working on Google either. It tells me a site I know that ranks 15 is not in the top 50. Google must have broken something.
Google Analytics will show you which terms you are ranking and bringing traffic, but to see them you have to do it manually..
Google Analytics is one of the best options that not only helps to keep track on your websites and the ranking of your keywords. It does provide plenty of other options that would prove to be quite helpful in the long run.
I use rank tracker as well from link-assistant. This tool is very unique, I work for an SEO Compan so we need to rint reports for our customers and we like to keep track of everything. his tool has man options and I tried many other tools, nothing compares.
Perhaps this is what you're looking for: http://www.seoserp.com/google.page.rank.checker/ If you want a paid tool, buy SEO Powersuite Professional. It has a Rank Tracker module which is amazing.
The correct answer has already been stated, verify the site(s) with google webmaster tools and view the "Your site on the web" -> "Search Queries" tab to get the most accurate information. I believe google say it's +/10% accuracy. Also, do note that google results are tailored to each person, based on multiple identifying factors, from ip address, to cookies, to whether you are logged in or not, so whilst you may see it at 15, somebody else may see it at 50 or beyond. The best way to check is to ask a friend, or to run a virtual machine on your computer using VirtualBox, this will allow you to run two operating systems at the same time, and you can use a browser on the second one for checking things like this. Finally, don't trust non google tools, the only data you can trust is from google itself, and you're limited to what data they expose, they do expose enough to do your job properly, and certainly enough for every normal/technical community outside of the IM world, who seem to have evolved entirely their own metrics based on several year old technology which the rest of the world has long since moved on from!
There are all kinds of these software packages to check rank for keywords. Keep in mind for you to get best results on most you have to pay