I can’t claim any credit for this, but I saw a cool blog post today on checking your rankings on keywords in Google without any costly SEO Tools, so I thought I’d share it with you. In order to do this you need to have Firefox browser installed and a plugin called SEO Tools for Firefox. I am sure there are other tools and plugins for different browsers that will do the same but for this example these are the tools we will use. So assuming we are using the tools listed above here is the process.

• First start up Firefox and if you haven’t done so already install the SEO Tools for Firefox. If they’re installed you will see a little SEO icon down in the bottom right of the browser, click this to turn them on or off.
• Go to the Google homepage, make sure your on the default home page not anything customised from your Google account. Click preference and set Google to display 100 results instead of the default.
• Search on your desired keyword / keywords combination, for example I decided to search using my entertainment site for a keyword I knew performed quite well (at time of writing). So for my example I search on “Mario Party”.
• Once you get your search results press CTRL+F to bring up the find function within Firefox, this usually appears at the bottom of the page. Now enter your domain in the find box, in my example digitallard.com. If your page is there Firefox will jump to it’s position and if the SEO tool is turned on you can quickly see which position you rank for that keyword example.

Now I know there are probably many other ways to achieve the same but as I use the SEO Tools anyway I found it a neat little tip and I hadn’t thought to use the tools this way. My thanks to The Unofficial Adsense Blog for the tip and for allowing me to reproduce it here.