Much More To Test

I've done a number of experiments so far, and the resulst have been encouraging - mostly validating current knowledge. It's great fun to do the experiments and really understand how the digital minds of Google and other search engines work.

For some odd reason though, I've still not been indexed by Live.com or Yahoo.com - so there is something to consider...Blogger doesn't get indexed by these two search engines very easily - but on the other hand, my Wordpress.com blog has been indexed.

Coming up, I'm going to be testing keyword densities, bolding and stylizing keywords, changing the meta tags around, messing around with the perfect title length and format and so on.

There's so much to do!

Checking anchor text

Now here's an interesting qustion. Does anchor text really affect the ranking of a website? We are often told and lectured to by SEO guru's that all the ranking juice is in the number of inbound links, and critically what anchor text is used.

So for this experiment I've created three new sites and am going to use a range of linking methods to establish which ones rank higher and why.

First up I'm going to see what happens when you use plain old 'Click Here' which is used so often when linking to a website:

Click Here

Next one, is what the SEO gurus always tell us, "use your keywords in the anchor text" so, here we go:

Grogerny Denox

And last, but by no means least, because it's equally important that we try it out, using the full URL to link to your site:

http://www.peterclaridge.com/seo/grogernydenox-3.htm

Once again, we must wait with baited breathe to see the outcome of this experiment!

Good Indexing Now

Google is going pretty well with indexing now, all the experiments are indexed, but not all the pages from the experiments, but I can finally start seeing some results again.

Live and Yahoo still are not picking up this blog which proves that blogger.com is not good if you want to get your site indexed quickly. I know I have the inbound links, but they are just not interested.

I will begin doing some more experiments this week, interspersing content with experiments.

Google Indexing

Google has finally decided to take some notice and index my blogs. I think this is because I have linked to it from so many different places. Unfortunately they are still not indexing the experiments so I think I will have to continue to build up the number of inbound links to convince them that this is a good quality website and that will help the experiment links get indexed.

If after a week or so the experiment pages are still not being indexed, I have considered setting up a number of other blogs and each one linking to a single experiment page and each page would be on a separate domain.

This is not an ideal solution because it creates more work for me and it also brings up the case that not all blogs are created equal and some might hold more juice with the search engines than others.

This would in turn potentially skew the results.

But let us see what happens. I will continue posting content here without links until the current experiment pages are all indexed.

Attempting To Get This Blog Indexed

I'm still trying to get this blog re-indexed. I've added a link to this site from a number of other websites that I own in the hope that more inbound links will cause this blog to get indexed quicker.

I have also pinged it to a number of services using pingoat.com simply to try and build up the number of inbound links. So far it doesn't seem to be working.

I just don't know why it's not indexing this blog. Even the other search engines are not picking it up. Could it be that it links to web pages that contain utter nonesense for content?

How To Get Indexed In Google

Not too sure what's going on here. I chose Blogger to post my experiments and results because I thought it would get indexed by Google pretty quickly and hence get my SEO experiments indexed equally quickly.

Now the strange thing is, when I first started, the blog was indexed by Google. It showed up and even the first two experiments were indexed - I know because I was playing around with them.

But after a few days the listings disappeared from Google and I can't quite work out why.

I'm thinking it could be something to do with the fact that I'm linking to the same website over and over again in each post - could be seen as spamming. In which case the solution is to alternate the days I post links or even have a break in posting links and post more content like this to make it appear less spammy.

To see if this theory holds any water, I will post a few days of content with no out going links to find out if this helps with my seo experiment.