Nowadays, everyone wants their website to rank well in the Google search engine. It is common knowledge that by having a good website ranking especially for keywords that have a very high amount of traffic, it will make your brand more recognized, the amount of traffic increases and can lead to increased revenue.
You need to do optimization to get a good website ranking. But after optimizing, how do you know how your website ranks?
If you want to know how to see your page rank on Google, this article is perfect for you and we recommend reading to the end.
On this occasion, we will discuss what tools can be used to see website ranking along with a guide on how to find out article ranking on Google.
Why do you need to know article ranking on Google?
Ranking first on the Google search engine is not an easy thing to get, especially when the targeted keywords have many competitors. The way that you can get the first rank on Google is by optimizing the website such as on page optimization, building backlinks and others.
But before you do optimization on the website, you need to know in advance the ranking of the page or article you want to optimize. The goal is that you can see whether the optimization done has a good impact or not.
This is important so that you can know what strategy to use next.
Generally, many people manually check website rankings by writing keywords on Google and searching for them.
That is a less effective, inaccurate and tiring way because it needs to spend quite a lot of time.
Therefore, here are some tools that you can use to make it easier to find out website rankings on Google.
Tools to Check Website Ranking on Google
The following are some tools that you can use to find out website rankings on Google ranging from free to paid.
SERPRobot
SERPRobot is a free website-based tool that functions to analyze SERP or so-called Google search results. You can use this tool to find out page rankings based on the keywords you enter with accurate results.
You can specify a specific location for these search results.
Here's how to use SERPRobot:
- First enter the SERPRobot website
- Then determine the "Region" or target audience of your website.
- After that, enter the domain name of your website.
- Enter the keywords you want to analyze (Maximum 10 keywords)
- Press the "Check SERP Now" button at the bottom.
After pressing the Check SERP Now button, you will see on the right side of the page the ranking of your website along with the top 10 websites according to the keywords entered.
What’s My SERP
What's My SERP is a free tool and almost the same as the previous tools we discussed. You only need to enter your domain, then enter the keywords you want to analyze up to 10 then press the Check All button.
After that, your website ranking will appear based on the keywords entered.
SERPChecker
SERPChecker is a tool for monitoring search results which is arguably quite complete compared to other tools. You can use this tool for free but with limited features. You can only analyze 5 times per 1 day.
How to use it is that you first register with SERPChecker.
After that verify the email and will enter the display as below.
You can choose the SERPChecker tool to analyze keyword search results. But you can also use SERPWatcher to find out the website ranking.
Choose according to your wants and needs.
You only need to enter the keyword along with the location and device. After that, press the Analyze SERP button. The results will look like below.
You can also make a comparison with competitors by entering the name of the competitor's website at the bottom and clicking Compare.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free tool provided by Google to help website owners know the performance of the website in search results. In addition, this tool can also help you find out any errors on the website and optimize based on the data.
Although many have installed this tool, it turns out that there are still many who have not been able to maximize this tool. You also need to know that with Google Search Console you can see the position of your website or page on Google or you can also find out which pages are entered on certain keywords.
Ahrefs
Ahrefs is a paid SEO tool that is quite widely used by companies and people in the marketing world. This tool has a user friendly display or is easy to understand even by new users.
You can use this tool to get all the data you want related to SEO, SEM, social media and others about marketing. You can find out the page rank for certain keywords, you can see the number of searches, keyword density, and many more.
SEMRush
SEMRush is a paid tool similar to Ahrefs with the function of seeing accurate data about SEO, SEM, Social media, brand monitoring, what content is recommended to write, website rankings, backlink analysis and many more features offered.
How to Know Article Ranking on Google Using GSC
First you enter the Google Search Console website.
Select the Performance tab, then select New-Page. Enter the URL of the article or page you want to analyze.
After that, the average position of the article will appear on Google for all keywords that appear.
However, if you want to see the website page rank for 1 keyword, you can add a query by clicking New-Query. Enter the keyword you want to analyze. Then the page ranking will appear for the keywords entered.
Conclusion
So that was the discussion about tools to check website rankings and how to find out the ranking of articles on Google.
While you are analyzing the ranking of your website pages on Google, it's a good idea to continue optimizing your website. An important factor that is often overlooked during optimization is website speed.
