Tips for Easily Creating Websites

Ever wanted to learn your website’s google placement for a certain keyword ? I know that i want to be aware of how my pages are indexed in google for some keywords. However, you cannot really go about inputting arbitrary keywords on google and then begin search the google results page after page. Luckily, this process can be automated by using a very simple program that i have created in order to be able to quickly check how you do on google.

While this program is able to search as many webpage results as you like, i have instructed it to search the first 20 google search engine results pages. After those, if you are not getting found.. well, you get the picture. It is important that you do not overdo it in searching very many webpages because google will be getting lots of requests from you and then at sometime ask you to enter a captcha confirmation code that this program can not of course give. Use it sensibly though and you will not be having a problem. By sensibly, i think that checking about 20 keywords or phrases per hour is enough.

Before presenting you to my actual code, i must really give credit to the great xgoogle library created by Peteris Krumins. I have included it in my own code and it really made my life easier. Also, if you are on the programming side, you should really pay a visit to this guy’s website. It is very informative and nicely written.

The code is written in the Python programming language and you can find a zip package of the tool right in the end of this post. Just unzip it and then follow the 2 simple steps below to make it work :

1. Download Python here

You need to download the package that comes for your operating system. In order to run any program created with Python, you need to download this file. After you download the file (msi for windows), just double click and run the setup till finished, without making any changes (if you are using a linux distribution like Ubuntu, python will already be installed, else you can install it via your package manager).

2. Run the Actual Python Tool

Once you have installed Python, running the script is very easy.

For Windows Users

The first thing that you need to do is locate where Python is installed in your system. Typically it should be on a folder like :

c:\Python26\python.exe

Once you locate the folder, you now need to open the windows command prompt. The easy way to do that is go to “Start -> Run”, write “cmd” and press enter. Another way to do it is “Start -> Programs -> Accessories ->  Command Prompt”.

When the command prompt shows itself, you will be presented with the blank shell. The last thing that you now need to do is actually run the script now. Before doing so, you have to change the working directory to the one you are working on now. Typically, when you open up the command prompt, you will be presented to:

c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator

Now, if you have unzipped the tool at your desktop, you can change to that directory using the command cd (change directory) like :

cd  Desktop\GoogleTool

You are now able to run a command like :

c:\Python26\python.exe googleTool.py “keyword(s)” websiteURL (without http://)

Therefore, if you want to search google for the keyword “website creation tips” for this website, you would enter the command :

c:\Python26\python.exe googleTool.py “website creation tips” website-creation-tips.com

As you see, this search engine phrase produces 2,280,000 results found. This website appears on the first page of the google search results and at the 8th position of that very page.

For Linux or else

You would just need to open up a shell and execute the command ‘python googleTool.py “keyword” websiteURL’ and you will be presented to the actual results of the execution.

You can now go about getting results for your own keywords in order to see how google classifies your important ones. If you have any difficulty running the program or want to ask anything about it, please drop a comment and i will help you set it up.

Download Google Tool Here

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