There’s a lot of buzz in the blogosphere lately about Google’s seemingly instant indexing of blog posts. Unlike static sites, which may get indexed every week or so, Google is crawling blogs within minutes, thanks to it’s new Google Blog Search feature.
Darren over at ProBlogger cites that his “Widgetbucks” post was indexed in 20 minutes and became #1 for the its topic. Another blogger was awarded with a huge influx of traffic which resulted in over 700 comments on her post about The ProBlogger 3rd Birthday Bash Giveaway.
Although Google’s search ranking methods are usually shrouded in mystery, we can assume from these two examples, that Google may be using its Blog Search feature in collaboration with its general search to retrieve the most up-to-date information on any given topic. (Frankly, it’s about time)
So what does this mean for you, as a website owner? Get Blogging! Google is giving you an open invitation into its highly prestigious Top Rankings placement…don’t let it pass you by. By writing a short blog on a daily or weekly basis you have the ability to drive thousands of visitors to your site. And we all know what traffic means: Traffic + Visibility = Money!
If you would like to set up a blog on your website, Contact Me! Not only do I love to talk about blogging, but, I also have a secret formula for blogging success which I would love to share with you.
Update: This post became #8 for Secret Formula for Blogging Success within 10 minutes!
Update #2: Number 4 Ranking in 25 minutes….Number one here we come!
October 9th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Just some clarification on your facts…
Darren ranked on the “widgetbucks” as you mentioned, however my post was referring to Darren also having ranked at #7 for “iloveseo” BASED on over 700 comments on one post (on HIS site, not mine) where we asked readers to put that in the comments to help us filter through the spam blocker (we were running a competition on his site where we chose 12 of those who commented to win a prize). There was no intention to rank for it, it just happened, and we noticed it.
My post (on my site) later ranked #2 for “iloveseo” and Darren’s fell off the radar for it. The reason for this is because my site is quite heavily focused on SEO (it’s one of the many things we do) and Darren’s is not (his is about professional blogging).
My intent on posting that was to show the proof to disbelievers that Google does in fact spider and rank 24/7 - especially with the introduction of the blog search making it so much easier for them to rank posts on relevant key terms.
What people should understand, is that while your rankings for certain terms might not be permanent (even mine has dropped a few numbers since then), they’re RELEVANT to the time where you wrote that particular post and focused on that particular target.
To DRM - The reason he got that high was because there were 700 comments in a short period of time (only 200 in the first 70 minutes, but 700 at the end of 7 hours).
His widgetbucks one showed up in only 20 minutes because as I said, Google’s updating 24/7 nowadays. It only took time for them to find it and BAM! it was there.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Why so many comments? Does his site get that kind of traffic in such a short period? or was their some motivation or incentive to comment?