Google Sitemaps Experiment - Part 2
As I continue to track the indexing of our new sites, I’m finding some interesting things. You can find our first tracking post here:
SageRock: Google Sitemaps Experiment - Web Marketing Blog
Google is actually unchanged this week, pretty much. But Yahoo and MSN have made some big moves. You can see the numbers in comparison with this week and last week here:
Date Engine Pages Indexed Site Code
8/15/2005 Google 1 Ba
8/22/2005 Google 1 Ba
8/15/2005 MSN 0 Ba
8/22/2005 MSN 20 Ba
8/15/2005 Yahoo 0 Ba
8/22/2005 Yahoo 1 Ba
8/15/2005 Google 1 Be
8/22/2005 Google 2 Be
8/15/2005 MSN 8 Be
8/22/2005 MSN 17 Be
8/15/2005 Yahoo 3 Be
8/22/2005 Yahoo 31 Be
8/15/2005 Google 2 C
8/22/2005 Google 2 C
8/15/2005 MSN 7 C
8/22/2005 MSN 59 C
8/15/2005 Yahoo 0 C
8/22/2005 Yahoo 38 C
8/15/2005 Google 1 Ca
8/22/2005 Google 1 Ca
8/15/2005 MSN 4 Ca
8/22/2005 MSN 34 Ca
8/15/2005 Yahoo 2 Ca
8/22/2005 Yahoo 3 Ca
8/15/2005 Google 1 Ce
8/22/2005 Google 1 Ce
8/15/2005 MSN 2 Ce
8/22/2005 MSN 4 Ce
8/15/2005 Yahoo 0 Ce
8/22/2005 Yahoo 2 Ce
8/15/2005 Google 2 D
8/22/2005 Google 2 D
8/15/2005 MSN 0 D
8/22/2005 MSN 3 D
8/15/2005 Yahoo 3 D
8/22/2005 Yahoo 17 D
MSN in particular is quite a mover. I will say, though, that Google is spidering these sites very heavily. I’ll look into this next week and see how it’s all continuing to go.
