Best site/tool to get exact rank of a site

[JML1179]

Is there a site/tool that will give me the exact google rank of a site for a specific keyword?

[ThompsonPaul]

There is no tool that can give "the exact google rank of a site" because there is no longer any such thing as an exact rank anymore, unfortunately.

As a result of all the personalisation that is now built into search results, it is unlikely any 2 users will see the exact same ranking results for any query. Things like location, personal search history etc are used to customise the ranking of results that each user sees.

The closest you can get to what you're asking for is to use Google Webmaster Tools. There you can find the average ranking for a keyword that's driving traffic to your site. Keep in mind that some will see your pages much higher and some much lower, but all the personalisations involved will be taken into account to produce the average. You can also see a rough number of impressions for the search terms and also whether the average rank has gone up or down (and by how many positions) compared to last month.

Regular ranking tools basically try to eliminate all the personalization from their measurements, but since real users don't search that way, the results they give aren't the same as an real user would see. They are useful for trending analysis, but shouldn't be mistaken as repeatable for human users.

Paul