SEO News Tip of the Day!

When MSN first launched its brand spanking new search engine many couldn’t believe how fast it was a crawling the web, indexing new pages far faster than any other search engine. I was seeing new pages being added to sites and 12 hours later; there they were in the MSN index. Pretty phenomenal most would say.

Not long after this many people started noticing a slow down in MSN Bot activity. So I thought it may be nice to conduct a quick little test to see who is winning the indexing race. A couple of days ago the Company who I work for started adding links to a site that is nearly completed in order to get the new site indexed. The site is a double glazing website and was not known to search engines before. So even though its not highly scientific as you can get lucky with these things and could add a link to the Double Glazing Company just as a Bot is making a visit but I thought it would fun anyway.

The Double Glazing Company search engine indexing race

So it goes like this, the race is to see what search engine out of Google, Yahoo and MSN manage to find and index the entire Double Glazing Company website. Which ever search engine fully indexes the site is deemed as the winner (sorry no prizes).

The results so far

Well so far after two days of having various links pointed at the Double Glazing Company, Google has managed to find and index one page and MSN has managed to find and index two pages. Google has only indexed the Double Glazing Company’s index page while MSN has indexed both the index page and the DIY Conservatory page. Unfortunately Yahoo! has not indexed anything(no surprise there), but this blog is quite popular with Yahoo and may well give the push it looks like its needs.

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We Have a Winner

Since the last post, Google has dropped the Double Glazing Company from it's index. Then today it indexed every single page of the site. So we clearly have a winner and it's not MSN who has still only indexed the same two pages as above. When MSN first launched it was indexing the web at an incedible rate. It would seem that MSN Bot has eaten a hell of a lot of pages which has caused it to become an overweight Bot resulting in slow movement.

Yahoo! has still not even indexed one page so is clearly in last place but second place is still open. Will Yahoo! manage to out pace MSN to the post or will MSN complete the job it started last week.

More results coming as when and when they happen.

Search Engines The Masters Of The Internet Universe ? Part 2

"This is a continuation of the pervious part, split into multiple parts for keeping the article size manageable."

When we thought we are just boxed in by the same set of search engine perspectives, there it comes, "help" flapping its wide wings in the form of meta-search engines. These search engines gets results from multiple search engines and give an ordered list of highly relevant results. This is in a sense better as the search engines have become more targeted and live than when they were a few Internet years ago. For the uninitiated, an Internet year equates to 100 days in calendar days. This is because this is the time it typically takes an Internet concept or idea to get fully developed and accepted widely in the Internet world. Before we get into how the Mets search engines work and help a little section on the how the search engines work.

Search engines regularly go out and query multiple "known websites" using their search bots, this is dubbed as spidering. The term known websites is critical to understand. The first and foremost is direct submissions by website owners to the search engines. These submissions are mostly added into the queue to spidered. The schedule for when this happens differs from search engine to search engine. The websites that are in the list to be spidered are simply dubbed the "Hang Outs". There are two types of hang outs one is the websites that are submitted to the search engines for inclusion and are yet to be spidered and the new websites that are quoted in established websites. The second concept is very interesting. Every master of a web perspective (web site) understands that you are either in the search engines index or never get a chance in the world. Oh No, you are wrong you are not slaves to the search engines. There are many other techniques, to be known outside of the search engines and when you are known to others who are known to the search engines then the search engines quickly know about you within one Internet year mostly. It is just the friend's friend is your friend concept.

The Hang outs are then indexed by the search engines based on the content and the level of optimization in the pages. It is highly important to understand that the search bots are just programmed online ghosts that need some handholding to understand your web perspective. This is termed search engine optimization and is a good topic to read and acquire knowledge about the vast number of techniques available for you. The indexed pages are now dubbed "Cartographed web Sites". These sites are now in the Known World. Meaning there is a possibility that a human sole may stumble on the web site. This cartography we are talking about is organic search recognition and not the paid inclusions and listings. There is more for you to understand and this is the crux of the topic dealt in the next part. Now let us get back to the topic of the hang outs. As I mentioned earlier other way to get spidered is to be suggested by other websites. This is popularly called by the term linking. We won't touch much into the topic but there are two types of links in each web perspective, one is a good suggestive link the other is a "Kibitzer link". Suggestive links are good links that will provide more information if you visit them. The "Kibitzer links" are links that are placed for money and are completely irrelevant to the topic on the web page even remotely. Paid inclusion is a great in many ways but "Kibitzing" is what is killing the Internet.

In the next part you will see more about the paid search engines and listings along with the organic search inclusion.

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