Calendar
Network
Feeds
- 53
- Sphinn It!
Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 7:18 am
Posted By: SiteMost 483 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hamletbatista.com)
Category: SEO
From Hamlet Batista's personal experience, the key seems to be the originality, usefulness and depth of what you have to share.
4 Comments
Comments
A tool that tracks Googlebot hits from pages that link to you / plots crawl/indexing frequency of a particular page would be useful. Though I can't assume a 1-to-1 relationship between crawl frequency and page importance, a strong relationship is there. Of course, if there are thousands of backlinks to a domain, and if new articles are published on it regularly, link juice dynamic will be on a constant flux, but by monitoring crawl behavior, you can probably track an overall trend.
If this kind of analysis can be used to identify backlinks that flow juice, we can improve link building ROI by shedding ineffective link acquisition targets.
Halfdeck - Yes, I agree. That is why I also mention that is important to factor in the update rate.
Instead of sending requests to Google to extract this information, I think that parsing the traffic log files is a more efficient and search engine friendly approach. In addition to this I can compare bot hits from different dates on a single pass and compute the rate easily.
We already have all the framework in place, so I am planning to include this feature in the next version of RankSense. With the new release I also plan to introduce a free edition so that a lot more people can benefit from the software.
I just found a couple of excellent options for monitoring your crawl rate:
http://www.seometer.com/ A crawl rate monitor
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/wordpress-crawl-rate-tracker/ A Wordpress plugin
You can pose as an expert by talking like one and by writing like one. But can you pose thinking like an expert without really thinking like one? Ever heard of those phony physicians working in hospitals for years? Do they really think like physicians or do they merely imitate the output of a medically-trained thought process? - "OK. Lets give him 50 mg of Querdowaxyl and measure the blood pressure again".
I just got a lesson in talking (and perhaps also thinking) like an expert from my two-years old grandson, while driving him home the other day. He spends the time commenting from the backseat on all sorts of things, and this time it was "Grandmom works in a hospital. Grandfather Emanuel, what do you work?" It took me some time and I found no way to describe SEO accurately to a two-years old guy. So his grandmother tried to save my face, "he works on the Internet".
"Aha...," he said, "...on the Internet."