I guess I'll make a small note as of this morning my MSN Traffic has exceeded yahoo's for basically equal positions in rankings for same KW sets. THis is a historical trend whether MSN was serving inktomi feeds and now beta. I mean my MSN traffic has flat doubled and rising and yahoo ain't doing to shabby either. Don't bank on Google anymore. Searchers are migrating and they decide relevance! Woo Hoo...screw Google and the engineers sandbox! Let the games begin baby! Cheers
LOL you're right. I get more and more traffic from MSN and Yahoo too. And traffic from MSN is increasing the few last months.
.... and will the launch of longhorn operating system further increase the number of searchers using MSN? You cannot say that Google is dead and buried, I am sure they have put too much time, effort and money into Google for them to give in now - I seriously think that for Google to outgun MSN they need to deal with the sandbox issues, waiting up to nine months (some sites more!) to be part of the serps is plain stupid. I have my cynical head on when I say was this done to raise income to Adwords?
We just opened one site to SE spiders on the 26th and MSN quickly indexed 70 of 200+ pages. Even with only 1/3 of the site indexed, it still ranks in the top 25 for the primary key phrase, and has top 5's for 3 out of 5 secondary phrases. I can't wait until they pick up the rest of the pages and strengthen the overall theme of the site within the SERP's.
How are you seeing that you have 1850 links in Google? Is there an easy way to get that number? We have a bunch of domains and I'd be interested to see that number of those sites.
James, just do link:www.wotever.com within the search box in Google, and you'll see the links to your domain. To be honest though, Google does not display every single link to your website, so you might just as well to go to Yahoo! and do linkdomain:www.wotever.com A success I've had is on a new website, indexed by MSN, Yahoo very quickly (I'm not even going to bother check Google!) and already within 10 days my keyword term 'florida villa rental' the site is on the first page of results in MSN If only it drove more traffic to our sites!
OK... I went to Yahoo and did: linkdomain:webshq.com Which is one of our domains. It shows 19,400. Can that be right!? I did it on Google and it returns: did not match any documents. Hmmmm... that is very odd.
Well it appears that domain is not indexed completely in Google, for example, you only have the homepage indexed, and without a title or description. Google is not showing any links to your domain. Is this a new site? With Yahoo, it's showing 5 links http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain:www.webshq.com&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8
No, this site is several years old, but we do use a lot of third level domains on it (like ThirdLevelsHere.WebsHQ.com). Yes... it is a little weird the vast difference between the two.
Not very vast, Yahoo has 5 links, Google has none. You need to concentrate on getting more links pointing to that domain, it then might get a complete crawl by Google, which will resolve the no title and description issue. Be careful with internal linking between subdomains.
James... To find your back links in google you need to use this: link: webshq.com The results are as follows: Results 1 - 10 of about 12,100 for link: webshq.com. (0.99 seconds)
that's nice and all, but he was looking for a subdomain. Google indexes subdomains seperately. So a better example would be: link:thirdlevelhere.webshq.com
Thanks for the help... that is pretty interesting. We use a lot of third level domains and wwhhomes mentioned to be careful linking between sub-domains. Why is that? We have a web ring at the top of each network we run that has sub-domains for the different sites we have on that domain. Do you see that as a problem? If so, why?
My mistake... I thought he was trying to use the "linkdomain:" command in google instead of just "link:".
That's great Colin. Could you provide a link to your site? I want to see what works! Thanks ... Richard Prosser