Yigber’s Online Adventures

Here are some conclusions from the mini-experiment I started two days ago.

Quick reminder:
I came uyp with a nonexistent word, that none of the search engines had anything on it, and posted it in several blog entries around the blogsphere. The posts were placed here, here, there and on this blog here. The point was to see when that word would be found and index by the major search engines. Specifically, I was curious how fast the googlebot sees posts on Blogger.com vs. the other weblog platforms.

2 hours after putting the posts, Technorati.com and Blogsearch.google.com found 2 out of 4 of the posts at Blogger and Tumblr. The Wordpress post has not been found to date (almost 48 hours past) by anyone. Google/Yahoo/Live - found nothing.

Some conclusions from all this mess.

Conclusions:

1. The 3 major bots (googlebot, slurp, msn’s bot) do not index the major weblog platforms.
   It seems rather obvious but I initially thought that at least the Googlebot would index their own Blogpost.com. Well, it donesn’t.
2. Link-Building by writing blog entries at Blogger.com or Tumblr.com is not quick or straightforward.
   The bots don’t index those pages and you have to have another page that points to the blog entry so that the bots will notice it.
3. Driving traffic to your blog or site by posting on the major blog platforms (Blogger, Tumblr, Typepad but not Wordpress) will work very well.
   Writing a well-built blog on a very topic with high search volume in major blog search platforms like Technorati, or Blogsearch.google.com will drive many eyeballs to you and quickly. Look at these graphs by compete.com:
   
   Technorati has ~7.3 million visitors per month (~3 million people) !
   I gotta test this to see if it really works.