GOOG Indexing Whitepaper

Crawlabilty

[seoDre]

While I don't consider myself an SEO guru, I can definitely talk the talk. I don't believe in SEO absolutes, anyone who claims they know is a great salesman. I've launched a niche drop shipping site in the last 3 weeks that I had a "coming soon" landing page up since January for. I'm keeping detailed daily records of the progress of the site and will publish here. Is this something people are interested in? I've not purchased any inbound links nor done a online press release (will do so soon). I consider about 75% of the on page factors optimized (not pure css, extraneous code because of .net...). The following are an example of the stats I'm keeping track of:

Purchased domain January 17th
Site live April 17th
Google webmaster indicates crawled April 24th, first time
- site is 70 pages
- goog indexes 3 pages
- only one inbound link, from our Zero page rank LLC corporate site which we launched in the same time period.

May 1st
- Have taken no SEO actions since launch, no blogging, link buying, etc.
- Goog Webmaster has not indicated that they have re-crawled
- 7 Pages are now indexed

May 3rd
- First natural search hit from GOOG, 3 word phrase, 2 page visits
- 3 word branded keyword phrase is on 5th page of GOOG. This is a less competitive brand for the channel. Ex) ACME Wing Nuts

May 6th
- First add to cart
- 35 total visits

May 8th
- Goog Webmaster updates and indicates that last crawl was on the 5th, 6 pages indexed

Is anyone interested in this?

[Tastatura]

congrats on the new venture.
I am all ears :)

[suggy]

What a fascinating little experiment. I like the minimal intervention aspect. I launch new sites from time to time and always dive in feet first.

I think SEO is like economics - half the time you don't know whether you're helping or hurting the situation. Are you reacting to a situation that has essentially already passed?

This is especially true with the 'muddy-the-waters' time delay factor that Google uses. It's a bit like the Bank of England raising interest rates and then finding out one week later that inflation was already on the way back down!

Keep 'em details coming seoDre...

Suggy