How To See What Pages Of Your Site Google Has In Its Index – Domain Name
How To See What Pages Of Your Site Google Has In Its Index
Tinu AbayomiPaul
There is a lag time between the indexing or updating of your site, and the time it takes to show new results in the database. Depending on your site, where it was linked from, who it was linked from, and who knows what other factors, the amount of time varies.
With the method I teach in my book it seems to take two to four days on average for the Googlebot to stop by initially, and then another two days to one week to appear in search listings for the first listing.
You can read more about the book here: http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/book
But even if it takes more than four to seven days for the Googlebot spider to show up at your site, or to return, if ever, there are several ways you can track the results. First, you can use Google itself.
Go to www.google.com and type in site: then your domain name. So for yahoo.com, youd type in site:yahoo.com.
The results will show you which pages of your site are showing up in Google.
If you know you wont have time to check on a daily basis, you can use a site called Google Alert, which you can find at
http://www.googlealert.com .
The great thing about this site is that it will track up to five terms per email address and have them sent to you via email on a daily basis. Using this you can track your ranking for your most important terms, or see how often your competitors site comes up versus yours.
To use this to see when pages of your site come up, create an account , then in the search terms section, type in, as one word, whatever is between www and your sites suffix .com, .net, .org, .biz, .uk, etc. and you will start getting emailed results.
The only problem is that the resulting page is sometimes a day behind Googles actual indexing. But for a free automated resource, you really couldnt beat it.
Until now.
Googles new Web Alerts just came out on the 29th of March. You can access it here:
http://www.google.com/webalerts
You can use Googles new Web Alerts service in much the same way. Its currently in Beta development, so make sure you save the information sent to you. Since its so new, youll probably want to sign up to both services and compare the results.
My favorite use for this is finding out when people mention my name or re-print my article at their sites, so that I can link back, or email to thank them. A big advantage Google.coms in-house version of the web alerts system is that they have a news version that you can subscribe to, which will help you stay on top of your niche in whatever industry youre in.
Currently I use the Google Alerts site for several on-going searches, and Googles Beta Web Alerts for my most mission-critical, time-sensitive news.
Theres yet another way to use Google to track how your site is doing in Google. It will tell you the cached version of your page, which Google stores. Sometimes the date posted next to the listing of the cached page can help give you a good estimate of when Google will be back at your site.
For example, at the moment, I seem to see the spider most predictably every day between midnight and 6 am EST since my home page began to score a PR of 5, then periodically at other points in my site during the day. I figured this out by looking at Googles cache of my home page over a period of one week.
This search will tell you pages that Google considers similar to yours. It will also show sites that it considered linked to you, and show sites that carry your full url, hyperlinked or not. Its not 100% accurate, but it will give you a much better idea than youd get from guessing- and its free.
Go back to Googles home page - www.google.com - and type in info:yoursitenameandsuffix. So if your site was ExactSeek.com youd type info:www.exactseek.com. You can also use site:yoursitenameandsuffix to find out which pages have been indexed by Googles search engine spider.
Curiously, Google used to show different results for info:www.exactseek.com and info:exactseek.com instead of including results for exactseek.com in the www evaluation. I havent seen this much anymore, but if you see one permutation showing up in results for the other, you may want to do both.
Youre going to want to bookmark this page and visit it on a weekly basis. The best day to look would be the one week anniversary of what day Google last cached a page at your site. The date will often be shown next to the word cached on one of your page results. If the cached page date is the same, that means Google hasnt been back to your site.
Marry this information with your study of your web stats to get more ideas on getting the most out of your weekly or daily exercises involving search engines and links from other sites, not just Google.
Copyright 2004 Tinu AbayomiPaul
About The Author
Tinus adventures with Google began when friends challenged her to "put her traffic where her site is". She was challenged to raise her brand-new site to top 100,000 status in Alexa and get well ranked in Google in 90 days, spending less than $100. When she won in 34 days, she decided to use the site she built to share her free traffic secrets. For more free traffic secrets, subscribe to her newsletter at ftdsecrets-subscribe@topica.com or visit her site for more free articles like this : http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com
Its Time To Start That "Swipe" File – Writing
Its Time To Start That "Swipe" File
David B. Silva
Just as great fiction is an art, so is great copywriting. Beneath the art, however, theres a foundation of basic knowledge and skills. The craft that goes into your writing.
Craft comes first. Art follows.
You learn the craft of writing by educating yourself, by the actual process of writing the doing, and by reading incessantly. Every successful writer will tell you that reading has been and still is the cornerstone of developing his craft.
Reading presents you with a written illustration of what works and what doesnt, of what you like as a writer and what you dont. It helps you understand the possibilities, and offers practical instruction of how the rules of your craft are used.
Most writers, when they start out, mimic their favorite authors. I have a friend who became incredibly adept at writing like Stephen King. For several years, everything I wrote had a Ray Bradbury flavor.
Eventually, we developed our own styles, which were richer for having first gone through this mimic stage.
The point is this: part of any effective learning process is to mimic what has been successful before you.
This is true of copywriting, too. And its the reason you need to start a "swipe" file if you want to become a successful copywriter.
What is a "swipe" file Its exactly what it sounds like ... a file of great copywriting examples that youve collected, studied, and can access whenever youre in need of a little inspiration. These are not examples meant to be plagiarized. You arent copying work here; youre adapting it to your own copywriting needs.
For example ... suppose youre writing a sales letter for an Internet site that sells an expensive mens wristwatch and youre in need of a great headline. You search through your "swipe" file and find a sales letter for The Oxford Club actually taken from my own "swipe" file with the headline: A Mans Right To Wealth. How To Master Every Situation And Prosper On A Grand Scale.
You toy around with it and come up with this: A Mans Right To Elegance. How To Impress In Every Situation With A Watch That Does Far More Than Keep Accurate Time.
See how a good "swipe" file can help
You can use it to adapt opening sentences. Or the layout of a sales letter. Or the guarantee you or your client offers. Even the pace or the emotional "tug" of a piece.
By using your "swipe" file, your creative juices are instantly flowing. Theres no blank page. You already have something to work with. And as any good writer will tell you, its easier to edit than it is to write.
So where do you get the material for your "swipe" file
The quickest and easiest source is the Internet. Start checking out website sales letters. Print them out. Good or bad even the bad ones can inspire your work. Study them. And keep them close by in a handy file.
The other great source is from mailing lists. If youre already on a few lists, then start filing those pitches away when they arrive instead of tossing them out. If youre not on a list, try purchasing a product or asking for a catalog. It wont be long before youre on a number of lists and your "swipe" file is growing exponentially.
Two good places to get started are: Publishers Clearing House, 101 Channel Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050; and Nightingale-Conant, 7300 N. Leigh Avenue, Chicago, IL 60648.
Try them both. Try any others that come to mind, as well. Just start building your "swipe" today!
About The Author
Copyright 2003. All rights reserved. David B. Silva is a professional writer, editor and publisher. For a FREE mini-course on the best way to make writing that novel faster and easier, Click Here ==> mailto:easyway@thesuccessfulwriter.comsubject=TRAArticle
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Its Raining ccTLDs – Domain Name
Its Raining ccTLDs
Jennifer Chiera
By now youve probably noticed the onslaught of unfamiliar domain name extensions popping up here and there. Like most domain name professionals, youve probably sat at your computer pondering whether or not you should kick out the extra cash to register some of these domain names... why
Keywords! While droves of individuals place an extreme value on the domain names extension, I firmly believe that the extension has nothing to do with the success or failure of the domain name. While certain ccTLDs Country Code Top Level Domains gain popularity, others leave little to be desired. Mostly because of certain restrictions placed on the domain extension by its sponsoring organization.
Those ccTLDs made available nationwide, or at least with no registration restrictions are, of course, going to be more popular than ones limited to corporations of the country for which it stands.
What determines popularity. People do. How do we increase the popularity of these alternative domain names Marketing, and education. The best thing to do is make people aware that they do, in fact, have other options.
Just because .cc is technically the country code for the Cocos Keeling Islands, or .ad is for Andorra doesnt mean you have to market it that way. Use some creativity in choosing the best name possible. People remember creative names.
Again, I cannot stress the importance of keywords. The part of the domain name before the extension is, and always will be the most important aspect of the domain name. So, if your question is, should I buy or invest in ccTLDs, the answer is yes. Though the present return on these alternative domain names is minimal in comparison to the .com, the future looks promising for certain ccTLDs, for example, Beauty.cc sold for $1,000,000; setting a record for the highest amount paid for a non .com! Id say the proof is in the pudding, not to beat an old clich