Go ahead, laugh. I'd like someone to explain how to find out where their site is on SERPS, and also to explain how this info affects AdSense revenue. For example, I've created a few new websites that are targeted to particular keywords, and I'd like to know when they'll show up in Google, etc. (Yes, I know, 6 weeks). From what I understand, until they show up in the SE's, its difficult to fully optimize your site. Once you start getting hits, you can use your stats to increase certain phrases/areas. Am I on the right track? Will
Ok, well, that's a start. That simply tells me that Google knows about the site, but does that mean it's been indexed? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'd really like to understand this.
To find out where you are in the SERPs use digitalpoint tracking tool: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ Your position in the SERPs affects AdSense earnings because better SERP = more traffic = more $$$ Optimization of your site doesn't depend on being found in the search engines. You just need enough traffic to be able to experiment.
DP posted about a potential correlation between kw ranking and payout a while ago. I dismissed it at the time, but now suspect that it may be an integral part of smart pricing.
a dead basic way but the most accurate imo for google is got to the google preferances and set to show 100 results, then search for your keyword, hit control and f and enter your url then press search and search that page, keep going through the result pages
All the above answers are for amateurs. You should learn about SEO and focus on becoming much more competitive in the SERPs through optimizing your site/pages from both an on-page and off-page perspective. To learn good SEO techniques you might try SEO Chat (http://forums.seochat.com/). Through SEO techniques we are on the first page for many highly competitive keywords.
You can show up in Google the same day you publish your site if you post your link to the right places.
well like chopster stated " you can show up in google the first day " I agree , as I do this all the time,,, but you really dont make money off of just having your site just show up ( this is the easy part) but I find that you really do not start making money until the Deepbot comes and does it's crawl and then you get your pages indexed. It isn't hard to get the url indexed, but most would agree with me in saying that you need the deep crawl from google and then having your subpages indexed before the money starts to roll in,,,, which that takes some time (1-6weeks ), all about the SEO and Links.