moocow - 6:40 am on Jun 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

Well, I should qualify my previous 'yay' response.

While Google now returns 90+ site pages from its index when I do a site:www.mysite.com query, it is hard to get any of those pages to actually appear in any free-form Google queries yet.

I expect that will come soon. Hopefully.

I updated all the page titles a short while ago and it was surprising to see the Googlebot come around and suck up a big chunk of the site again shortly afterwards. At least the backend of Google seems pretty efficient.

Traffic from Yahoo/Altavista has started to flow consistently now from user search queries on those engines. Not hugely, but it is certainly there now.

The page descriptions being returned by Yahoo are quite good as well - the page's META Description text, followed by a snippet from the first para of the page. Classic stuff. Each page summary reeads quite well as a result.

It is still frustrating to see crappier and plainly less relevant pages turning up in the Yahoo results ahead of some of mine, but thems the breaks.

Having said that, it will be interesting to see what the pattern of search referrals is once more volume comes through, and (once Google starts returning results) it will also be interesting to compare the results for some key phrases coming back from both Yahoo and Google.

Fun fun fun.