Compare your blog/site with the top 10 sites for a given keyword

You've been working real hard, on your blog/site, for the past few months. You have been optimizing your blog for a particular keyword. Now you want to see some results. You want to know where you stand with respect to the competing sites. Well you are in luck because such a tool is available. Its free and its online (nothing to download and install).

Its called "Keyword Competition Check Tool". Here's the link to the tool page. Here's what the developer says about the tool;
"This tool will search Google using the keyword that you enter and give you useful statistics on the top 1 to 10 results. You can also include a site of your choice, which will also be included into the statistics. The statistics for each site are cached for one week.

Please note: the information you provide may be used by Just Search Ltd, to contact you to discuss the products & services available.

Sometimes you may find that the tool may time out and give you no results. This will be an issue with Google SOAP API not working and has nothing to do with the tool."

Here is the step by step guide to using the tool;

• Enter the keyword that you want to check (if you want to check the tool for multiple keywords use the tool again, just check one keyword at a time.
• Enter your blog's URL in the text box labeled as site. (It says that this information is optional, but you want to compare your stats with the top 10, so you should as well use it).
• If you do not want to go into complex details then just click the go button.
• But if you want to configure the tool more finely then click th blue colored buttoned named "Advanced" (the button will now display the text "Simple", so basically its a toggle).
• A menu will open.
  

• In the "Restrict to Country" drop down box you'll have three choices. If you want worldwide results set the option to "--", to restrict to UK results only set this to "UK".

• Next is the "Safe Search" drop down box. It only presents two choices. Safe search is a boolean value which enables filtering of adult content in the search results.

• Next one is the "Filter" drop down box. Like the previous menu, it has only two yes or no choices. Filtering activates or deactivates automatic results filtering, which hides very similar results and results that all come from the same Web host. (I would recommend that you select yes, otherwise it will return cached results from Google).
• Last one is the "Number of Results" drop down menu. Here you select the number of sites compared (plus your site). The higher you set the number of results to be returned the longer the script will take to run, the maximum limit (set by Google) is 10.

• Click "Go" button.
• After a little processing the results will be shown.

• Results will be shown in the form of a table. The table is divided into following columns, serial number, Google page PR, Google site PR, Google back links, Google site back links, Google site saturation, Yahoo back links, Yahoo site back links, Alexa back links, Alexa rank, directory 1 and directory 2 (Directory 2 is the Yahoo directory, directory 1 might be DMOZ, but I am not sure about that). Also there is a row at the bottom of the table which shows the averages of columns. (If any of the rows are colored green then this is taken from a cache of the last results for this site. If the cache is longer than a week old then it is cleared and new data is retrieved.)
• Below the table is the "Comparison Radar Graph" (but I must say that its a bit difficult to read).
  

• Below the graph you'll see the options you had selected.

• And below that is the same tool again, ready for your next search .

So go on and check your blog out. Share your results with me. Till then bye! Have a nice day!