how do i find out how well my site compares with others?
474013
Try for free here: Check the ranking of a web page in Google™ A free search engine optimization tool ->> http://www.googlerankings.com/
742443
Go to BetterWhois.com (http://www.betterwhois.com/) and put in the other company's domain name. Once it comes up, you can click on research this domain, and from there you can find their site traffic info.
980159
goto www.sdhinternet.co.uk, they can list and reference your site for you. probably chargeable though.
382834
There is no quick and easy way to do this. You would need to engage an agency and work with them on what/which aspects of your brand you want to measure and they will go out there to do the benchmarking for you.
705345
Hi Stephen,\n\nWhen you publish your site with Yahoo!, we automatically submit your site to Yahoo! Search, but unfortunately this doesn't always mean that your site will beat out other sites in the search results -- there's a lot of competition out there, and many sites jockeying for the same top spots.\n\nThere are several things you can do to make your site easier to find, from adding keywords to your pages and sending out email newsletters to signing up for a "pay-for-placement" service like Yahoo! Sponsored Search, which is aimed at small businesses and can be very affordable. Visit the Promote tab of your Web Hosting Control Panel for a look at some available services, or check out our help center for more ideas!\n\nPromotion tools: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/promote/ \nSearch engine overview: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbiz/searchengine/\n\nGood luck!\n\nJen\nYahoo! Web Hosting team
282383
You can do several things:\n\nGo to http:www.internic.com to do a WHOIS check.  Find out where the domain is registered, and see if contact information provided is complete and accurate.   You can use Yahoo maps or google earth to verify addresses.\n\nDo an internet search of the company name on the web to see if anyone has posted any comments, good or bad, about the company.\n\nIf company is in the US you can check with the better business bureau at www.bbb.org
95566
Make sure your site is registered with all the major search engines.  Here is a website you can go to to submit your site to 21 major search engines.\n\nhttp://websitesubmit.hypermart.net/freesubmit.htm\n\nI also recommend purchasing a subscription to SiteCatalyst.  This tool will tell you how many hits you get per hour/day/week/month.  It is customizable.  The good part it tells you where the people were before they came to your site.  This way you can tell which seach engine is working best for you.  With the information you can also decided how to improve your description with the other seach engines that are not working as well.\n\nThe SiteCatalyst Suite of online marketing tools measures the effectiveness of your company's Web site and online marketing initiatives. SiteCatalyst reveals how visitors interact with your Web site through a flexible architecture that quickly lets you identify and track the factors that uniquely affect your Web site success.This information equips you with the insight you need to optimize your marketing efforts and drive your company's online business success. \n\nhttp://www.sitecatalyst.com/
108604
It's been said that if it takes a user longer that 6 seconds for a web page to load that abandonement will occur at a higher rate than one which loads within 5 seconds and after 10 seconds users frustration jumps even more. You might want to look at studies such as the one on this page.\nhttp://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/1/\n\nA good way to measure performance is using a company like keynote which will give you performance results. After that If you don't like the results you see, you could do many different things depending on what your site does and how it's generated. From local load balancing, to using a content delivery network like Akamai which will not only relieve the load off of your server it will also give you the ability to scale when your site goes through peak usage periods.
36058
First, cheat and look for your site by name to ensure it's even "in" the index.  Then, there are programs out there that you can buy that'll "scroll through" those 40+ pages for you and let you know where you're at.  Submission Wizard is one such program, but I know there's many more.
263432
maybe they can't see it, is your html correct?  ask others if they can see your site ok
368174
Go to Yahoo!\n\nFind the category that best fits your site by clicking the links.\n\nWhen you find an appropriate category, click "Suggest a Site" at the bottom of the category.\n\nFollow the instructions.
771680
Here is a site that ranks them.
748906
Improving the keywords in your content might not have an effect.  Google, for one, counts how many quality links are linking to your site and uses that and a bunch of other stuff to determine ranking.  I'd do two things: get people to link to your site using verbose pages and like you said, add more content to your site.\n\nYou might even stop by http://www.webmasterworld.com/ and take a look at what they've had to say.  Lot of experts there.
78443
It depends on what features are important to you. The site linked below, Search Engine Showdown, compares and ranks the search engines by feature.
1152535
Alexa.com can be very useful. However the website has to have a certain level of traffic to catch their attention.\n\nSimply enter the URL of the site you wish to lookup, then select the "Traffic Rankings" tab.
518802
Search Engines have evolved from the old days where merely submitting your site got it listed.  It can take weeks to see a submission listed nowadays.\n\nThe best ways of getting higher ratings now are:\n1. Pay! (Sad but true)\n2. Get your site linked to by loads of other sites, the spiders (programs that go to websites and then from those sites go to the links to others) search loads of sites each day, the more external sites linking to you the more the spiders come to you and the higher up you go.\n3. Meta Tags, make sure your meta tags on your pages are correctly formatted and relate to your site.\n4. Text relevance, make sure your site contains relevant information.
144242
A free directory, which lists your site instantally into a Google PageRank'ed page is:\n\nhttp://www.sahfor.com/