Does Google Love You?
How can you tell how well Google likes your site?
I use these 3 quick indicators to assess how Google see’s your site. Especially useful when starting out optimising a website.
Pages Indexed
A simple Google search will instantly give you an indication of how well your site is recieved by Google.
Depending on the nature of the site and the actual number of pages contained on the site, the closer the number of pages contained within googles index and the actual number of pages on the site the better. This shows the extent of the information on the site that Google has reached.
Cache Date
I always use the homepage as an indicator here. After doing a site seach click on the cached link below your homepage result. This will bring up Googles cache of your homepage. This shows us the latest date that Google had cached the homepage.
PageRank
The most basic and easily accessible piece of information from google. Looking at the Google pagerank contained in the Google toolbar gives an indication of link popularity to the page being viewed.
Comparison
Using these indicators can give you an indication of how your site compares to others and which area’s are either doing well or that need to be worked on to better your site and Googles relationship
How do you compare? I’m interested to hear your views, feel free to post comments on your experience
I agree these are quick indicators for your sites ability to compete in google
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These are all really good points. I also use a Firefox plugin that incorporates all three indicators covered in the article and more
Rankings are also a pretty good measure of Google love. If it ranks, it ranks.