A company called CleverStat have a number of products to help you understand your site’s search engine penetration.  But they also produce a free tool called Free Monitor for Google which will tell you where your site ranks.

You can download it and use it to check your ranking for the various keywords and phrases that interest you. I have written a hubpage that explains this more thoroughly if you need more information.

Otherwise, head over to Cleverstat and download Free Google Monitor.

The image shows a screen from Google Monitor – you can see that the site features on page 2 for the first term (position 20), page 1 for the second term (position 7) and so on.

There are so many technologies, techniques and practices to apply. You really would have to be superwoman/man to even think about incorporating them all. 

That said, today’s web page gives a great overview of some of the archtectural issues you need to include or consider when building a site.  

Not sure I agree with most of his nofollow ideas, but certainly the other items in the list are all part of basic good web building technique. Does your web site tick all ths boxes?

Pageflakes is an easy way to discover and share the things you like to see online. You can easily create a web start page that keeps track of the many blogs and news sources that you read every day.

You can also add images, videos, a calendar, email, a task-list and other items to further personalise your page. You can even make one-off pages that you can post on the web. This last function may have a social media marketing edge to it – so it is worth checking out.

They also provide the ability to do pagecasts – these are pages you set up with feeds and information on a topic of your choice. I guess this is potentially a great tool for telling people about your business and warming customers up to your products and services. If done correctly.

Here is an example of a pagecast about dogs.

In order to make money online you need to cover four areas. These are :

Market Research

Find a business to run online

Product

A great product to sell (bear in mind that product could be information or ad space)

Traffic

Targeted traffic for your web site

Conversion

A website persuasive enough to convert the vistors into buyers

The Solution

Take the Challenge – don’t worry that it has already started. If you are familiar with the internet skip the pre-season training and start the challenge training right now.

You can use this social media site to help locate good topics to write about on your blog, or new (possibly information) products to bring to market that people really want.

43things is a social media site that allows users to list all the life’s goals.  The key of course is to find something people need, that is also of great interest to you.

Sign up for an account, and on your home page you’ll see the current, most popular tags.  Here is my home page and you can see straight away that “writing a book” is a popular goal for many people. So how about an affiliate site with tips for would be authors and affiliate book links specifically targeted at fledgling authors?  Well, it’s an idea.

Find The Most Popular Goals for Users of 43Things

43things have a term they call Zeitgeist – which is another way of saying that which fills the heads of our users at the moment, or something similar. Put another way – it’s a list of the most popular individual goals on 43things (as opposed to popular tags).