Week 1 summary
What I’ve learnt so far:
Search engines
- Googlebot doesn’t crawl new websites frequently. One week has passed from last visit. I need more incoming links and content.
- Sitemap doesn’t reduce time between Googlebot visits.
- MSN crawler is faster than Yahoo crawler
I have submitted my blog to MSN later than to Yahoo. - Google can change index without crawling blog. Some pages are missing from index.
Social networks, bookmarking, catalogs
- Delicious is useless unless you build your own network. No visits.
- Digg can be effectively used for link building.
- Blogcatalog should be used by bloggers.
Other
- Lack of free keyword tools.
