SEO experiment – the googlebot returns
Ok, so the first visit from the googlebot occurred on the 5th of June and it indexed the only 2 pages that were up at the time…
Only 10 days later, it returned and re-indexed the herbal remedies site.
According to google’s webmaster tools, this time it indexed 7 pages on the site (out of a total of 13). Not sure why it has passed over the other pages this time, something to have a think about…
| 399 | 108 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12 |
| 33 | 31 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) |
| 10 | 10 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 |
| 5 | 1 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) |
| 5 | 1 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) |
| 4 | 2 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP) |
| 3 | 3 | SurveyBot/2.3 (Whois Source) |
| 3 | 3 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) |
| 2 | 2 | Google-Sitemaps/1.0 |
| 2 | 1 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) |
| 1 | 1 | Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml) |
| 1 | 1 | msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) |
| 1 | 1 | Yahoo! Slurp/Site Explorer |
| 4 | 0 | [not listed: 1 browser] |
So it seems MSN, Yahoo and Google have all paid a visit, plus a few other: Ask jeeves, the WhoIs surveybot and some unidentified ones. It’s actually a little hard to tell, but i think i’ve had one organic search visitor who found me using the search term “benefits of ginseng” in google just this morning. Looking at the stats closer it seems I’m right, what kind of person would run a bot using Windows 98… then again, what kind of person is still using windows 98 at all. Obviously someone who needs some ginseng. I guess i’ll know for sure once Google Analytics updates with today’s info.
But moving on, I think now would probably be a prudent point to start noting these things in a more structured manner. I’m sure it’ll be updated and modified as i go but this will do for the time being:
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Site: Herbal Remedies
http://herbalremediesdb.com
13 pages in the site.
As reported by google (known to me):
- 0 inbound links (1)
- 0 organic visitors (1 suspected)
Search rank for the following (prior rank):
- #1 (#3) – herbal remedies db
- #NA (#NA) – herbal remedies
- #10 (#NA) – db ginseng
- #NA (#NA) – herbal remedies ginseng
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#NA means not in the first 10 pages. Google’s webmaster tool says it doesn’t have enough data to determine pagerank yet. Hopefully once it does it can save me some manual labour…
Incidentally, this blog has been indexed twice as well (5th and the 17th). I now have the #5 result for |capricious mind| and the #1 result for |capricious mind seo|. Seeing as HRdb has been indexed more recently than this site, I doubt that the link from above will count during the next visit from google.
In the next few days i’ll be adding new content to herbal remedies db and to this blog as well (Aside from more updates to the SEO experiment). One of the next steps i’ll take in an efforts to improve pagerank for HRdb will be to create (somehow) a solid inbound link from page with relevant content. Unlike this one which would probably need more instances of words like ‘the health benefits of ginseng’ for instance, or maybe Siberian ginseng information…
That’ll do for now.
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