My content experiment failed?!

August 30, 2007 Filed Under: 30 Day Challenge

Absolutely nothing has happened!And I couldn’t be happier :)

So far in my test of content hosting platforms nothing has happened. Google has not indexed any of the 8 pages I have set up.

Let me explain. I am spamming! I created 8 identical sites on 8 seperate content hosts. The idea was to see which one got indexed first and highest.

I know this is spam but it is just research. I plan to take down 7 of the 8 pages once the experiment is done.

It’s been almost 48 hours and nothing. Not a single one has been indexed. And it’s GREAT! I didn’t give any of them social love because I didn’t want that to sway the results. Which made me wonder:

Obviously something about “giving love” told Google to check our sites, somehow social love let Google know that we’ve updated our content. But what is it?

Google uses a Spider to crawl around the internet checking webpages for content. The spider reads the page and stores all the important information about your site in a database. When you do a search, Google goes into that database to find webpages with those keywords and returns them to you in order of relevance.

So if you notice the fluctuations in your rankings it is probably because the Spider found that a page that used to be #100 just updated its content and is now more relevant than your page so it slips that page a head of yours in the ranking.

If we could control that spider, we could control the WORLD! Okay, maybe just Google but think about how powerful that would be. Well that is exactly what we did! By social posting, the Spider would find our social post, crawl it (follow the links) and end up at our content page, notice that it has been updated, then update the database. So the next time you searched for your keyword, you saw that you moved up a bit in the rankings.

Brilliant!

I have to run but there is obviously more to come. If you are thinking critically you should be asking yourself: is there one form of social posting that is more powerful than another? Why did Ed tell us to add content EVERYDAY? Can you get the spider to check your site everyday? How often do you need to “love” a site?

Answers are coming!

Think critically~

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