Successful ranking.

[Mark]

How should a site be assessed to know whether it is successful as far as search engine rankings are concerned? What is considered a good ranking?

[Peter]

There's no fixed standard to determine search engine success as it is defined differently by each individual. Getting your site listed under the keywords that are being used to find sites is a major success.

[paul]

Good sales conversion, as sales is ultimate your goal.

[Jan]

The site appearing at the top for its choosen keywords in the search engines can be considered as a good ranking.

[AndrewC]

I think the success is not just about site appearing at the top for it's chosen keywords, it's how much traffic you get on to your site with the help of that ranking and ultimately the sales generated from that traffic.

[suzane]

Your website will be considered successful when it will have a high pagerank. A high pagerank site gets noticed easily. A successful site is also the one that ranks high enough for its chosen search terms through which it gets sufficient no. of visitors to achieve its objective i.e more sales.