August 23rd, 2006 by metapilot
Recording the search engine results changes as my new site moves onto a previously banned domain is providing a glimps at algorithm characteristics that I don’t get to witness on a daily basis. Not only does it highlight characteristics of the individual search engines, it points out differences in how they approaches a particular situation.Now that Google seems to have turned everything back on for the domian, I went from having nothing listed in the site:domian search to 1300 pages (all pages from the previous owner). It wasn’t exactly all in one swoop, though, over the last two days, I’ve been seeing different results at different data centers–sometimes there would be nothing for the site:domain search, sometimes three or four old pages, and then back again. Now with all these pages showing, it looks like they’ve gone ahead and opened the flood gates.
I’m sure it didn’t hurt that I posted a question on this week’s SEO Rock Stars guest speaker’s site, Stuntdubl SEO Consulting, regarding what to do with all the inbound links pointing to metapilot.com from websites that used to be cohorts of the previous site owner. There was some interesting discussion durring the show between Oilman, Web Guerilla, and Stuntdubl that you can listen to at WebmasterRadio.fm, if you’ve got a little time to kill.
Yahoo’s showing one more result than it did before and still hanging on to an old .pdf from the site. I wish it would just drop that. and MSN shows 36 results for the site:domain search.
August 19th, 2006 by metapilot
August 19th, 2006
Real estate of all types is very competitive in Florida and with the market going through the changes it has recently, it’s getting more so every day. This increase in competitiveness is very evident online, where real estate oriented website owners are putting substantial resources towards optimization for their sites in order to reach more online traffic.
All of this means several things for new real estate oriented sites: 1) It is taking quite a bit more effort for new sites to reach traffic-producing search engine rankings on primary keywords. 2) Niche keyword spaces are getting more difficult to find. 3) It is taking increased vigilance to defend your rankings from other sites who want to claw their way up into higher rankings.
Firms who are not competing directly against mainstream realtors do have it somewhat easier, though. A strong optimization campaign can find keywords that will bring in traffic, yet doesn’t pit them against all the “heavy hitters” engaged in real estate search marketing. Such a campaign would enable Signature Residences to bring in targeted traffic while their website matures and gains strength over the next 12 months. In addition to optimization of the existing site, it is recommended that these companies focus on adding to the site’s content and that it strive to develop strong back links to its site as a foundation for continued strong rankings in the future.
August 18th, 2006 by metapilot
MSN is starting to show .com results with two pages indexed. I was reading a comment on another blog recently about the blazing speed with which MSN is indexing new sites. That’s what I’ve been seeing for some time, now, with client sites and I think it has even picked up some in recent months. MSN has the other beat two hands down when it come to the speed of indexation.
August 8th, 2006 by metapilot
MSN is the first of the search engines to show any change. The site:domain query on MSN reflects that it now recognizes changes made to the .htaccess at the .net site. The results are starting to show .net pages that have moved permanently–all the below results used to show title and snippet. Now the ones without title and snippet point to cached pages that say simply “Moved Permanently” Read the rest of this entry »
