I’ve started a new website and I’m curious about how long it takes to make various search engines and have traffic build. I’m not linking to it on purpose, because I don’t want to taint the experiment.
The site was put on the Internet on January 2. On January 4, I submitted the URL to Google and created a Google Sitemap.
The site appears to have first entered the results of a targeted search on Google the morning of January 8. It also appears to have made MSN and Technorati at about the same time.
Feedster may or may not be dying - their bot has made 82 requests at the site, but I cannot get anything but null results when searching for the site. Will check back later.
A couple of other bots I’m not sure about have crawled the site.
For what it’s worth, the site is dynamically generated via Wordpress and has about 8 URLs, excluding feeds, that are valid.
Update: Feedster is now returning the site when doing a Feedfinder search (sample). It looks like they crawled the site just slightly before I posted. So, from crawl to results in less than 18 hours (I was not checking frequently, so it may have been quicker).
I’m actually impressed that the site was found at all or so quickly by them, since I gave them no help like I did Google.
I appreciate your comment and notified support. Thanks for checking back.
Thanks for the response. I can’t say that I was complaining, just noting what I’d seen so far. I didn’t check when the requests were actually made by your bot - for all I know at the moment they could have been made just before I ran my log reporting.
I’m really more curious as to how the process works for new sites to be crawled and indexed and am just recording my observations in public. I will keep checking Feedster because it is of interest to me. I don’t think there’s much you can do since I did not provide the site URL I was discussing.
Again, thanks for the response. I like it when companies keep their finger on what people are saying about them.
Bill