Google have started to use their keyword help (as seen in the Mozilla Google Toolbar) on their search homepage. The neat thing is, not only does it suggest words or phrases that you may be typing, but also suggests approximately how many pages each of those search terms will return!

Couple that with their Free Keyword Suggestion tool, Google seem to be more willing to share information on their usage statistics than they have been previously.

So, after yesterday’s post you’ve added your website to some of the search engines and you want to know if they are reading your insightful, inspired and witty content?

Easy!

For either Yahoo or Google you can easily find out what pages they have indexed by using the “site:” command. For example, to find pages of this blog that have been crawled and indexed, you would search for site:blog.primatedesigns.com - Google will display a list of pages, and Yahoo will display it’s site explorer.

There are a few other handy commands to be used on Google in exactly the same way:

• link: - Shows all pages which link to your website’s front page
• cache: - Google’s current cache of your website
• info: - Information that Google has about your website
• related: - Pages which Google believes are similar to your website

To be seen on Google (or any other search engine) they need to be aware your website exists. Nearly all major search engines and directories will have a page where you can submit your website address to be included in their listings. To make things easy for you, we’ve made a list of the most popular ones:

• Google: www.google.co.uk/addurl
• Yahoo: uk.search.yahoo.com/info/submit
• MSN/Live: beta.search.msn.co.uk/docs/submit.aspx