The bots, the bots ...
I don't pretend to understand the frequency of bot reindexing or what they measure. I post to the blog an average of once per day but I'm not always diligent enough to do it every day. The search engines interpret what I have done in very different ways.
This blog shows an increase of 129 pages during the last month on Google, an increase of 6 links on Yahoo and 1 page and 1 link on MSN. Who is right? They can't even agree on how many pages there are on the blog. Does this make sense? Well, up to a point. Metrics frequently have meaning only when you view trends within the metric itself - trying to compare one metric with another is often futile.
Relax, watch the trend and not the absolute numbers.
This blog shows an increase of 129 pages during the last month on Google, an increase of 6 links on Yahoo and 1 page and 1 link on MSN. Who is right? They can't even agree on how many pages there are on the blog. Does this make sense? Well, up to a point. Metrics frequently have meaning only when you view trends within the metric itself - trying to compare one metric with another is often futile.
Relax, watch the trend and not the absolute numbers.
posted by John Diffenthal at 7:11 am
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