How to get my blog indexed faster

Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin

26 March 2012: This article is one of a series of experiments I am carrying out to see how to get your Blog indexed quickly on the Search Engines. You can see the previous article here and you can see the first article of the series here. You will see from the original article that I am researching how do blogs get indexed so quickly on the search engines. There are many theories on the forums on how blogs get indexed so quickly such as:- 1. Ping-o-matic pinging service, 2. Google likes blogs, 3. the sitemap generator.

I am implementing changes to my blog on a step by step basis and measuring the results of each change to see how they effect the speed at which my blog is indexed on Google.

In my last article I explained the latest steps I had taken in this experiment and published the article to see how soon would it be indexed on Google. As I had said previously, my articles in the Tradesmen.ie blog are indexed in less than a minute and appear quite high in the rankings so I wanted to see exactly what influences this and see can we replicate it on other blogs and other pages in our websites.

So on Saturday March 24th (2 days ago) I published one article on the Tradesmen.ie blog and another article on the Barrowvale blog. Within 1 minute of publishing the Tradesmen.ie blog it was live but half an hour after publishing the Barrowvale blog it still wasn’t live..

18 hours later the barrowvale post is still not live..

2 days later I check the results and it says that it was indexed 1 day ago so it took 24 hours:-

The next step will be to add a link to the blog on the barrowvale site. As we have seen the blog is already indexed on Google now so it shouldn’t make much of a difference. Next steps after that will be as follows:-
1. Add the blog to the sitemap to see does it have any effect on how quickly it is indexed in Google.

2. set up blogs under different names such as ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’. Seemingly Google loves blogs so we want to see does Google still index articles or content that are similar to a blog but do not use the name of ‘blog’.

If you are interested to see the results please feel free to bookmark or subscribe to the blog or to add your comments below.

Other articles in this series:-
Why do blogs posts get crawled so fast?
Why is ping-o-matic not working?
How to ping technorati from your WordPress blog
How soon will my article be indexed?

Cheers
Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale.ie

How soon will my article be indexed?

Posted on March 24, 2012 by admin

Hi folks,
24 March 2012: This article is one of a serious of articles on how to get your Blog indexed quickly on the Search Engines. You can see the first article of the series here. You will see from the original article that I am researching how do blogs get indexed so quickly on the search engines. There are many theories on the forums on how blogs get indexed so quickly such as:- 1. Ping-o-matic pinging service, 2. Google likes blogs, 3. the sitemap generator.

I had deliberately not put a link on Barrowvale.ie to the blog because I don’t want Google to find it this way. I wanted to see how quickly would ping-o-matic update the blog lists and then be picked up by Google. Well the good news is that one week after I removed the privacy settings from the WordPress settings that the Barrowvale Blog is now indexed in Google. Infact, when I did a search today in Google for the search phrase, “Why do blog posts get crawled so fast”, barrowvale.ie/blog/why-do-blogs-posts-get-crawled-so-fast comes up No. 1 on Google. Google says the page was indexed 6 days ago so it was literally indexed within 24 hours of being posted. The next question is how did Google find it, is it because of ping-o-matic update service or because of technorati update service? It’s obviously one of them because there was no link to the Barrowvale blog posted anywhere.

Ok well we can see the Barrowvale Blog on Google so let’s see if we can find it on the services that ping-o-matic pings. Here is a list of them below that you can find on the pingomatic.com website:-
Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, FeedBurner.com, NewsGator.com, My.Yahoo.com, PubSub.com, Blogdigger.com, Weblogalot.com, NewsIsFree.com, TopicExchange.com, BlogSearch.Google.com, Spinn3r.com, PostRank.com, SkyGrid.com, Collecta.com, Superfeedr.com.

Strangely, I can’t find barrowvale.ie on any of these websites!! I just used search terms on Google like:-
barrowvale.ie site:FeedBurner.com
But there’s no sign of it. I also searched on technorati.com and no sign there either!!

Then I thought maybe some of these sites only display indexed blogs to subscribers of their service so to test this assumption I decided to search for apple.com on each of them through Google. I just used search terms on Google like:-
apple.com site:FeedBurner.com
Well to my surprise nearly all of them listed results for apple.com, see results below:-
Weblogs.com(104 results), Blo.gs(1 result),FeedBurner.com(3,510 results),NewsGator.com(170 results),My.Yahoo.com(379 results),PubSub.com(184,000 results, wow!!), Blogdigger.com(46 results), NewsIsFree.com(10,100 results), PostRank.com(585 results),SkyGrid.com(17 results),Superfeedr.com(8 results)

Hmm, I wonder what about the Tradesmen.ie blog, it’s been up and running for a couple of years, let’s see which of these services list it when I search Google again using search terms like:-
tradesmen.ie site:FeedBurner.com
Here’s the results below:-
Weblogs.com(0 results), Blo.gs(0 results),FeedBurner.com(8 results, non about tradesmen.ie though),NewsGator.com(0 results),My.Yahoo.com(0 results),PubSub.com(24,500 results, non about tradesmen.ie though), Blogdigger.com(0 results), NewsIsFree.com(281 results, non about tradesmen.ie), PostRank.com(3 results, non about tradesmen.ie),SkyGrid.com(0 results),Superfeedr.com(0 results)
It makes me wonder are these sites of much use at all if they are not indexing the blogs that they are being notified about!!

Then I did a search for barrowvale.ie on each of the sites directly and the only site that I found it on was BlogSearch.Google.com. Therefore the only conclusion that I can come to is that the ping-o-matic update service worked for BlogSearch.Google.com and this must be the service that updated the Google main index. See screenshot below:-
I will post this blog in the next few minutes and we’ll see how quickly it gets indexed on Google this time (after all that’s what this article is about:-) ). The article will be posted today March 24 2012 at 16:49 GMT. The next step will be to add a link to the blog on the barrowvale site. As we have seen the blog is already indexed on Google now so it shouldn’t make much of a difference. Next steps after that will be as follows:-
1. Add the blog to the sitemap to see does it have any effect on how quickly it is indexed in Google.

If you are interested to see the results please feel free to bookmark or subscribe to the blog or to add your comments below.

Other articles in this series:-
Why do blogs posts get crawled so fast?
Why is ping-o-matic not working?
How to ping technorati from your WordPress blog

You can see the next article in the series here

Cheers
Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale.ie

How to ping technorati from your WordPress blog

Posted on March 18, 2012 by admin

March 18th 2012. This article is one of a serious of articles on how to get your Blog indexed quickly on the Search Engines. You can see the first article of the series here. You will see from the original article that I am researching how to get your blog indexed so quickly on the search engines. There are many theories on the forums on how blogs get indexed so quickly such as:- 1. Ping-o-matic pinging service, 2. Google likes blogs, 3. the sitemap generator.

I have deliberately not put a link on Barrowvale.ie to the blog because I don’t want Google to find it this way. I want to see how quickly will ping-o-matic update the blog lists and then be picked up by Google. It is almost 24 hours since I changed the privacy settings on the blog to allow the WordPress Update service to ping ping-o-matic when I published yesterday’s blog. I checked this morning and Google has still not indexed the blog. Then I decided to check each of the sites that ping-o-matic is supposed to notify using the search phrase: barrowvale.ie site:[site name here]. E.g. barrowvale.ie site:BlogSearch.Google.com

I found no results on any of these sites. Here is a list of them below:-

Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, FeedBurner.com, NewsGator.com, My.Yahoo.com, PubSub.com, Blogdigger.com, Weblogalot.com, NewsIsFree.com, TopicExchange.com, BlogSearch.Google.com, Spinn3r.com, PostRank.com, SkyGrid.com, Collecta.com, Superfeedr.com

I then did a search on all of these sites for another blog that we do which is the Tradesmen.ie blog. This blog has been in operation for nearly two years and Google usually indexes the blog posts on it within a few minutes. That blog uses ping-o-matic as well. To my astonishment the keyword tradesmen.ie was no found on any of these sites!! The keyword ‘tradesmen’ was found on 4 of the sites as follows:- NewsIsFree.com, PostRank.com, FeedBurner.com, PubSub.com. That would suggest that of all of the sites listed that these 4 are the only ones that will get you listed in Google for a search for a keyword on your blog if they actually manage to list your blog at all.

Now I am really puzzled. I also noticed that ping-o-matic nolonger has technorati listed as one of the sites that it updates. I have now added technorati in addition to ping-o-matic as one of the site update services that it will notifiy when I publish a blog.

I will measure the results in the next few days and next week I will 1. possibly to add more site update services along with the two listed above and/or 2. to add a link to the blog on the barrowvale site so that it will be indexed by Google.

If you are interested to see the results please feel free to bookmark or subscribe to the blog or to add your comments below.

You can see the next article in this series here

Cheers
Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale.ie

Why is ping-o-matic not working?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by admin

17 March 2012. This is the first article in a series of experiments that I am carrying out to find how blogs are indexed so quickly on Google. Last week I wrote about how I intended to measure what makes a blog get indexed so fast and how I intend to measure these results over the coming weeks. If we can understand how this works it will be a major help to increase our rankings on Google by applying the same principes that help our blog get indexed so fast and rank so highly on the rest of our website. You can read the previous blog here

The first problem that I have noticed is that our blog has not been indexed by Google and therefore ping-o-matic is not working. I deliberately didn’t put a link to the blog on Barrowvale.ie because I wanted to test the theory that the built in ping-o-matic service will let many other services know when we’ve updated updated our blog. However this has not happened. The reason why ping-o-matic is not working is because of the privacy settings. To change these in WordPress we have to go to Settings>>General. If your privacy settings have been set not to let Search Engines index your blog you will see a sentence at the bottom of this page that says:- “WordPress is not notifying any Update Services because of your site’s privacy settings.” as shown in the screenshot below:-Now click on privacy settings to get to this page below:-

Just click on the box that says, “Allow search engines to index this site.” and ping-o-matic will start working and the search engines will begin to crawl your site.

As stated in the previous blog post my next steps will be as follows:-

a) test ping-o-matic, measure and record results

b) put a link on Barrowvale.ie to the blog, measure and record results

c) Set up the sitemap, measure and record results

d) set up blogs under different names such as ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’, measure and record results

That’s all for this week, if you are interested to see the results please feel free to bookmark or subscribe to the blog or to add your comments below.

You can see the next article in this series here

Cheers
Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale Technology Ltd

Why do blogs posts get crawled so fast?

Posted on March 11, 2012 by admin

11 March 2012. This is the first article in a series of experiments that I am carrying out to find how blogs are indexed so quickly on Google. Have you ever wondered why blog posts get crawled so fast on Google? I have been fascinated by this ever since it was first demonstrated to me about 3-4 years ago. If we can understand how this works it will be a major help to increasing our rankings on Google. I intend to carry out some experiments to find what is the secret to blog posts appearing so quickly on Google. I have seen blog posts being indexed on Google in as little as 1 minute and appearing in the top 3 search results. I have done some research on this subject and there are lots of different suggestions put forward as folllows:-

1. Google likes blogs (ok that’s fine but is it the name blog that Google likes or is it the fact the content is updated regularly. If the blog page was called ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’ would it be indexed as quickly? These are answers that I intend to find out in the coming months and I will post the finding here. But don’t forget that whatever the cause of the these pages being indexed quickly and ranked hight at the moment is now, it may change in the future if Google changes its crawl pattern or algorithms so this is something that will need to be continually evaluated)

2. It’s due to the Ping-o-Matic pinging service that is installed by default by WordPress (well if that’s true why has our first blog post on Barrowvale.ie not being indexed yet. I deliberately did not put a link to our blog on Barrowvale.ie to test this theory and Google has not indexed the blog so Ping-o-Matic didn’t work)

3. It may be the sitemap generator (A sitemap has been submitted but it doesn’t include the blog so Google doesn’t know about it yet. More about this in future blogs, e.g. how to set up the sitemap for the blog and what effect it has on indexing )

My next steps will be as follows:-

a) test ping-o-matic, measure and record results

b) put a link on Barrowvale.ie to the blog, measure and record results

c) Set up the sitemap, measure and record results

d) set up blogs under different names such as ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’, measure and record results

I will also identify any obvious problems that will prevent a blog from performing so please stay tuned

You can read the next article in this series here

Cheers

Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale Technology Ltd

Helping to grow your business

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

Hi Everyone, medicine Barrowvale is very much committed to helping our customers to grow their business through the use of the Internet and technology and we have been doing so for the last 12 years. Therefore, try from time to time we will use this blog to post articles that will help you to think about ideas to promote your business or to develop products or processes that will reduce costs and help to make your business more efficient and competitive.

Cheers
Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale Technology Ltd