Posts Tagged ‘MSN’
SEO Experiment Part 3 - Update
Following on from our SEO Experiment we’ve been conducting over the past month, we’re excited to bring you the following update
- Our experimental site was crawled by Google within hours
- The site was indexed in Google and ranking at the top of page one within 2 days for it’s key-term
- Crawled by Yahoo, MSN & Ask within the first week
- Indexed in MSN & Ask SERPs within two weeks
- Indexed within Yahoo! SERPs within three weeks
This was achieved with standard on-site SEO Practices, and minimal off-site SEO including a single link from a reputable website.
This demonstrates the power and value of Search Engine Optimisation, the benefit of using a domain name that matches your search term or topic, and how implementing a few of the simple recommendations by Google Webmasters can help your site rank well in the Search Engines.
Now our focus is to take the site to the next level by adding further content updates and some additional on and off-site SEO, and ranking for a range of other related keywords.
Stay tuned at Search Engine News for the latest on this SEO Experiment, and further updates on Search Engine News and Developments.
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.
Search Engine News
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
Former Yahoo Marketer Joins MSN
Scott Moore has Joined Microsoft’s search business as the U.S Executive Producer, responsible for MSNBC.com and Microsoft’s related Search Engine websites.
Scott was previously head of Yahoo!s search marketing business, and has re-joined Microsoft after four years working in Yahoo’s Media Division and begins his new role in March 2009.
Interestingly enough Moore is filling a role at Microsoft which was previously held by Jeff Dossett, and in a switch of roles, Dossett now fills Moore’s old shoes at Yahoo.
The Search Engine Business seems to be a very fluid and incestuous market, and the influences that both Dossett and Moore make in each of their roles have potential to do great things for Yahoo and MSN’s media divisions.
Scott has a background in Search Engine Marketing and will now be responsible for Microsoft’s content and programming strategy. Prior to his four years at Yahoo, Scott was at Microsoft for 10 years between 1995 - 2005, so he is rejoining the Microsoft flock, and is amongst many other key employees within Yahoo who have recently made the move to Microsoft.