SEO Tycoon

**itandseoservice** · 05-20-2010, 01:10 AM

Hello All

I usually check my site ranking in Google two times in a day. When I start working and when I close working.

What about all of you?

**kunkun** · 05-20-2010, 03:43 AM

I am check my sites ranking daily one time.

**ThailandForum** · 05-20-2010, 03:52 AM

Never, it would be like checking my chimney if I had one to see if father christmas is stuck in there.

**webcreationuk** · 05-20-2010, 06:46 AM

Depending on the websites. For some I do weekly check, for some once at 2-3 weeks.

**rypher21** · 05-20-2010, 06:55 AM

once a week

**francis84** · 01:44 AM

I'm checking my website ranking once a week.

**chrishirst** · 05-21-2010, 11:29 AM

Never!!

**bdg1115** · 05-21-2010, 11:31 AM

0 times..

**blue-dreamer** · 05-21-2010, 12:27 PM

Never here as well! What's the point of doing that?

**JGBlogging** · 05-21-2010, 01:23 PM

I normally check once or maybe twice a week.

**freshcoat** · 05-21-2010, 03:12 PM

I check if I have a reason to do that

**C0ldf1re** · 05-21-2010, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Never!!

Errrr.... stupid question time... thank heavens Thai's not in charge... So how do you know if your SEO is working? (Do not say "faith" unless you regard SEO as a religion!)

**chrishirst** · 05-21-2010, 06:36 PM

Rankings are not going to tell you if your MARKETING (of which "optimising" is one part) efforts are truly effective or not.

Your accounts will tell you if it is effective, and if you don't earn revenue from your website why would you even care?

**blue-dreamer** · 05-21-2010, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by C0ldf1re

So how do you know if your SEO is working?

Usually by checking referer logs, monitoring sales, enquiries and so on...

**C0ldf1re** · 05-21-2010, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Rankings are not going to tell you if your MARKETING (of which "optimising" is one part) efforts are truly effective or not.

Take an example. You are making poor sales from your website.

Here are a few things to check:

1. Is your site visible high on serps?

2. Is the short description shown to the searcher by the SE attractive enough for searchers to click on the link?

3. As and when visitors come to your website, is the content good enough to keep/convert them?

So until somebody shows a good argument to the contrary I would have thought that regularly checking your site's ranking was a good idea.

**mividazul** · 05-22-2010, 12:55 AM

Weekly or if my site page cache that time i will cache my website.
If i'm organic click improve that time i check ranking

**janecooke** · 05-22-2010, 01:31 AM

A couple of times monthly only to see if there are any significant jumps in particular keyword searches or positions (e.g. from 5th page to 1st, not too excited about 13th to 11th). But prefer to look at a lot more other metrics to identify success (bounce rate, time on page, no. of pages viewed, form fills, calls, etc.)

**anselduminy** · 11:25 PM

I do check it very often but not as often as you do. I check it every couple of days. but i do add new stuff and new artciles on it on daily basis.

**elmerkit** · 05-24-2010, 03:50 AM

I check mine once a month.

**C0ldf1re** · 05-24-2010, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by C0ldf1re

... So until somebody shows a good argument to the contrary I would have thought that regularly checking your site's ranking was a good idea.

This was thrashed out on another thread. Every searcher querying a search engine may see different results, for various reasons. The serps that you are trying to check may be very different from the serps seen by other enquirers on the same keywords on the same SE.

So all you can check is actual visitors, and what they do on your site.