checking your website on google

before we starting with the seo promotion we need to check our website current place and pages on google.

here's a few queries we can run on the ordinary google search engine to check whats going on.

1. by typing  link:YOURDIMAIN.COM you Will get all the websites who have links to your site.
2. by typing site:YOURDOMAIN.COM you will get all the indexed pages in the google index.
3. by typing intitle:YOUR TITLE you will see all the websites with the same or like your title, most of those websites is your competitors.
4. by typing intext:ANY TEXT YOU WANT you will get all the pages who have this text inside their content.
5. by typing inurl:YOUR DOMAIN.COM  you will get all the domains who include your domain inside them.

if your site is older then 3 month you can check the google pagerank, alexa traffic and more site info tips and tools at wmtools blog.
and use the free online tools for webmasters to make the most of your seo campaign

keep track your results and check if your rating is going up or down. so if u made a mistake you will know about it.