As you are working on your overall search engine marketingefforts, it is nice to see how Google is tracking your progress. :)  A wonderful free resource is the Google Webmaster Tools.  This allows you to track keep track of your websites with Google and stay on top of things like your Sitemaps and the most recent keywords people are finding your website on.

If you haven’t yet signed up for the Google Webmaster Tools(it is FREE ), here are a couple of ways you can check to see what Google knows about your website:

• Pages in Google Index:Type “site:http://www.yourwebsite.com” in the search box of Google - This will show you how many of your pages are indexed by Google.  Hopefully as you have been adding pages this number grows!
• What sites are linking to my front page:Type “link:http://www.yourwebsite.com” in the search box of Google and you will be able to see the number of websites that currently link to you.  Great value in those websites that link to you so this is another key metric that you will want to see increase.
• What does Google think my website looks like?- This is the cached version that Google has stored about your website.  Type: “cache: http://www.yourwebsite.com” and you will see what your site looks like according to Google and the date that they last updated this view.

These tools that Google provides are a wonderful way to keep track of how your efforts of page creation and search optimization are progressing.  If you sign up for the Google Webmaster Tools you can also be notified by Google in case you have a violation of their rules, pretty handy!