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SEO Experiment Part Two
Earlier this week, we initiated an SEO experiment on a brand new domain name.
The goal was to see how quickly it would take to for a new website be listed in the SERPS, and how long until our began to rank for a competitive search phrase.
Within a few hours of listing the domain in Google and preforming minor off-site search engine optimisation and moderate on-site optimisation, the page was being crawled by Google’s bot and several other non-common search engine spiders.
Within 2 days, the domain is listed in Google’s results and is in number one position (Google Australian Search) amongst 164 million results, albeit no advertisers in this select term.
We are yet to attract attention from Yahoo, MSN or Ask.com Search Engine Spiders, but in our view this is quite an amazing result to achieve in two days, and we’ll be interested to see what more will come of this SEO experiment.
Stay tuned.
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SEO Experiment
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
New Domain name: Dot Tel
DotTel ( .TEL ) is a new type of domain name that promises a new way of locating information on the web. It may also include benefits to compliment your existing SEO Strategy.
Search news contacted the Dot Tel registry recently for some information about the new TLD, to see what all the hype was about, and the benefits it has to offer for a company’s Search Engine Optimisation Strategy.
DotTel is a different concept from most other ordinary domains such as .COM or .COM.AU, because rather than using the domain for ‘regular purposes’ such as hosting a traditional web-page that presents your company or product information using a HTTP web server, Dot Tel is a ‘directory service‘ of sorts, which presents a company or person’s contact information, and that content is serverd over the ‘DNS’ or Domain Name Service protocol.
DNS is s the underlying technology that runs the domain name system, in essence, allowing you to type a web address into your web browser, and it locates where on the web you need to go to retrieve that information or website.
A spokesperson for .TEL said the new domain has very specific and unique content, which allows customers to locate your business and provide information on the products or service you provide, in addition to your contact information and location. You are also allowed to to specify keywords related to your business, so this has the added benefit of being crawled and indexed by local search engines.
Making use of DNS technology presents many incentives for search engines such as Google to crawl and index the information because it is in a standard and easy to read format, and updates to content are almost instant, search engines have more incentive to re-index .TEL content in short intervals.
Finally, the spokeperson feels .TEL adds a great deal of value to the end customer because .TEL content is easy to maintain, can be updated at short intervals and has the best return on investment in the SEO business because it is expected to retail at very low prices (approx $15-20 USD/year).
When asked about privacy concerns, DotTel has advised that just like many social networking sites such as Facebook, customers can decide on what information is made public and who gets to sees information that they would prefer not to be seen by the public. In a similar way that you can see the friends of your contacts in Facebook, DotTel will also allow you to see a limited amount of information to people in your approved contacts network.
The Dot Tel landrush is currently on (Jan 09 to February) and landrush applications start on Feb 3rd at a premium price, and general availability (GoLive) begins on 24th March.
Visit the Telnic website for more information on this new and exciting Domain TLD, and view their demos for demonstrations of the many features and benefits offered by DotTel.
We’d like to thank DotTel for supplying this information.
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