Checking your search engine placement progress can be a tedious job and quite time consuming. Most articles and information on the subject will lead you to use a service like position agent at bcentral, or another tool that will take a keyword from you and let you know how your site is doing in the top engines under that keyword or keyword phrase. In most cases they only bring back results for the top forty pages of the top 7 engines. This is a common practice by many and often times it leads to search engine frustration and lack of tracking.
Many people fail to find their sites in worthy positioning and constantly rework and resubmit.
This is very self defeating and can get you thrown out as a spammer. People give up and move on to other ways of promoting their sites and leave the hope of Front Page placement behind. Front Page search engine placement to them seems like a waste of time and is often compared to winning the lottery. I track a little differently. It is much more revealing than any of the usually prescribed methods.