moocow - 8:14 pm on Jun 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yay, sort of.

Today is the first time that I've seen results for site:www.mysite.com appearing in the Google index.

So the lag in getting in the index was from 1 May to today, about 7 weeks.

PR of the site at present is 0, which for a new site is to be expected, and it is also clear that although Google has spidered every page on site, only a selection are appearing in the index at the moment.

But that's progress. Now I'm happy.

Now that the pages are appearing though, it has also highlighted how there are a few things I need to clear up to make the Google search results more meaningful for people (forget about SEO - just people browsing the results).

For example my page titling is good and comprehensive, but too long, and gets truncated in the Google results display. I didn't think about how that would look to people. As the main subject of the page is at the end of the title line, it can be hard to pick up the subject of the page.

Etc. So the ball has started rolling on Google.

The Inktomi spider has also gone crazy over the site these last few weeks, so it will be interesting to see what the results are there.