Search Engine Indexing Experiment

[RJ]

This is a marketing test to see the search engine indexing result of a single forum post.

I've chosen a domain that has never been used before and has not resolved to an actual site before today. It will not be linked to or promoted from anywhere else, except this very post until the conclusion of this experiment.

The goal is to see if it will be indexed, and if it is, how long it took from the time of the initial posting. This is far from scientific and I acknoledge there may be many other factors at work here. So lets see how it works.

24 Hour Sites

The time is now 4:30 PM PST on Monday January 12, 2003. Feel free to post a guess on when, if ever, this site will appear in Google, Inktomi, or any of the other search engines.

 

[InteractAsia]

i reckon it will appear in the next few days

i'll keep a look out for it if i can

 

[Sharpy]

-RJ- shouldn't you have a document type declaration at the top. And you have no keywords in the meta. Does that not affect indexing, or just where it gets indexed?

 

[RJ]

Originally posted by Sharpy
-RJ- shouldn't you have a document type declaration at the top. And you have no keywords in the meta. Does that not affect indexing, or just where it gets indexed?

Good call. I updated the meta tags.

This is the link to check if its Google yet.
http://www.google.com/search?q=24hoursites.com

 

[InteractAsia]

ok i guess it will show up in 4-5 days

 

[bensontwenty]

This is the link to check if its Google yet.
http://www.google.com/search?q=24hoursites.com [/B]

that doesn't necessarily tell you whether Google has it RJ. Take one of the domains I have parked for example, www.superbowl-houston.com (bought it to late to develop ). If you run that search in google it tells you that it doesn't know anything about superbowl-houston.com.

However, if you enter a search query for superbowl and houston, it comes out as about 4th or 5th on the page.

Hope this helps.

 

[RJ]

You're right. This will be the link that will display what pages are indexed by Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site:24hoursites.com+-asdnbsanbas

Replace 24hoursites.com with the domain you want to check.

Here's yours for the domain you mentioned
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site:superbowl-houston.com+-asdnbsanbas

 

[RJ]

And it is indexed! Five days later.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site:24hoursites.com+-asdnbsanbas\

Google found it through Web Design Talk indexing.

 

[InteractAsia]

heh 5 days.. so my guess was spot on

 

[RJ]

Originally posted by InteractAsia
heh 5 days.. so my guess was spot on

Yep, darn good guess, SG. I was expecting it to take much longer.

Domain still has a 0/10 pagerank, but comes up first for "24 hours sites" in quotation marks, and 2nd without quotations. Not that anyone is searching for that term, but it's good to know when promoting less popular search terms.

 

[InteractAsia]

yep yep

thing is i was wondering how come it came up under WDT and not NP? google didn't indexed NP

 

[RJ]

I'm not sure what Google's process is for reindexing sites, or why they indexed WDT before NP. It could be that WDT has a better pagerank.

I'll post again when this page is indexed on NamePros.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q="24hoursites.+com"

 

[rambo6376]

Hmm - does it not index any links in the signatures?

 

[aww]

If you want to see a site indexed within 24hours, install the Google Toolbar, visit the domain, and vote for the site with smiley face.

Works for me most times.

 

[rambo6376]

cool! good to know!

 

[Jeanco]

good info aww.

 

[RJ]

Originally posted by aww
If you want to see a site indexed within 24hours, install the Google Toolbar, visit the domain, and vote for the site with smiley face.

Works for me most times.

Great tip. I'm going to have to test that! Let's build a site with an unindexed domain and happy face vote it and see if it works.