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OnlyTopResults · SEO Yellow Belt Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 28

OK - let's say I have uploaded my site and taken a couple of weeks to submit it to free Directories. I can use http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ to see when back links have started to appear, though this of course doesn't give me any indication when the SE bots will crawl those Directories next. Presumably if I only submit to PR1+ Directories it will only take a matter of a few days.

So, I have access to an analog stats package on my site hosting account and can see loads of info there! But what am I looking for? Presumably the advice is to let Google, MSN and Yahoo spider the site and then start the next phase of adding a menu, adding an xml sitemap, posting to Article Directories, etc.

How do I know when those 3 key 'bots have been through my site?

Thanks
Adrian

Charles Heflin · Administrator Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 337

OnlyTopResults · SEO Yellow Belt Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 28

Do you know, it never occurred to me that the answer would be SO simple! Confused

Of course Googlebot seems to take twice as long as the other 2 and so I'm having to be patient!

I've just added a spyware-free very useful toolbar from http://www.rankquest.com/download-toolbar.html which also allows me to easily check the status of my sites with these top 3 SEs. This is only one really cool tool in the toolbox though - see http://www.rankquest.com/seo-tools.html Highly recommended!

Cheers
Adrian

BWWD2006 · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject:

If you want to check when your site gets spidered by different search engines consider checking out Bot Monitor, this is a PHP script that is included in your php pages and as soon as a search engine spider pays a visit to that particular page you receive an email informing you of what search engine spidered your site and what page it spidered

This can be especially useful in determining which pages search engines are seeing and which engines are visiting, it even informs you when some blog and feed spiders visit also, check it out

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Ahri22 · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:18 am Post subject:

Don't be afraid to submit to PR0 directories, either! Especially if they're reasonably new (you may want to see whether they're indexed in Google though...). A site can go from PR0 to PR4 quite quickly, and if you get your sites listed while the directory's still new, you'll most likely get your sites on the main pages (more likely to get PR when updated) and you'll also be more likely to get accepted by the directory quickly. The backlinks won't count for much now, but they could be valuable later!

Cheers
Fiona

OnlyTopResults · SEO Yellow Belt Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 28

OnlyTopResults · SEO Yellow Belt Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 28

BWWD2006 · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:04 am Post subject: re bot monitor

Mistake on page should have read 10 site licence not 1 lol

have corrected

OnlyTopResults · SEO Yellow Belt Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 28

That's more like it Michael! I just went to purchase my 1st licence, but I am unable to tell you what the URLs might be for 10 sites right now - I have 2 in the works but beyond that I have no idea!

Your purchase page says "Additional Info (e.g. Url For Site Licence, Submission etc)" ... how do I get around this?

Cheers
Adrian

BWWD2006 · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:19 am Post subject: re

ahh lol just buy it and work that out later, just drop me a note when you use a new site

hope you enjoy the program

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