Here is a top 1000 Google SERP checking tool that you may find helpful.

http://www.seoserp.com/web_tools/google_top_1000_serps_checker.asp

Just a reminder, don’t for get to submit and re-submit your sitemap to the top search engines.

Google - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

MSN - http://webmaster.live.com/

Yahoo - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

A few days after placing your order you may like to check on your backlinks. There is a simple way to do this that will give you a general idea of your new backlink count. Official backlink counting for google is done when Google updates; which is roughly every 3 to 4 months.

You can get a good idea of your backlinks by using a tool called Backlink Watch.