When you setup a new site one of your big concerns is going to be getting it indexed. If the site isn't indexed then it won't appear in any search engine results.
As I promised earlier this week, I intend to share the success and failure of the SEO for this website.
This domain was only registered last Sunday, so it is less than a week old.
Which robots (search engines) have visited it so far?
A cursory glance at the logs reveals the following:
- Googlebot
- Slurp (Yahoo!)
- Msnbot
- Ask Jeeves/Teoma
There were also a number of blog specific spiders, but I'm not as interested in them.
Why?
I'm primarily concerned with the main sources of traffic ie. Google, Yahoo and MSN. Getting traffic from other sources is important, but being indexed by the "big three" is essential.
If you look at the logs on well established sites you can immediately see that most search engine traffic comes from the "big boys".
If you think about it the reasons are pretty obvious.
Google is the "king" and not just because a lot of people use it directly. A lot of the ISPs incorporate Google's search functions into their customer portals. As many users do not change their home page you need to get your site listed where they will see it.
So where do we stand?
So far we there haven't been any hits in from search engines, apart from one hit from
Technorati
However that doesn't mean that pages haven't been indexed.
A quick check on msn shows that they've indexed 6 pages. Google has indexed 10 pages so far. Yahoo has 9 pages.
But if I do a link popularity check the results are much more interesting and I get a total of 146 links!
Not bad for less than a week!
So how did I do this?
I'll let you know in the next instalment :)
