SEO Experiment
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Today, Search Engine News is Embarking on an SEO experiment to see how long it takes for a brand new domain name and website to be indexed in Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
Traditionally Yahoo! and Google have been the fastest sites to index a page, and we’ve had reports that MSN is very slow at listing sites that aren’t highly popular, so this experiment’s primary goal is to see how long it takes for the three search engines to index the site and rank it for certain key terms.
Our methods used in the experiment:
- newly registered domain with no content
- create wordpress blog, and configure relevant SEO-Related plugins
- Add unique content
- Submit to Yahoo, Google and MSN
- Link to the page from a page rank 1 website and one other free index
- Authenticate site in Google Webmasters, MSN Webmasters, and Yahoo Site Explorer
- Add a sitemap
- Setup Google Analytics
- Sit and wait for the results, and report back.
Our expected outcomes and measures of success
- Time taken to be listed in SERPS of three major search engines
- Time taken to attain pagerank
- Value of registering a domain and performing SEO for highly competitive key-terms (with 44 million results).
We will report back in the coming weeks and months the outcome of our SEO Experiment
