SEO

"The waiting is the hardest part..."

Date Run Time Total URLs Change

2008-01-02 2.02 s 2,198 -
2008-01-03 1.54 s 993 -1,205
2008-01-04 47.20 s 1,041 +48
2008-01-05 2.31 s 1,075 +34
2008-01-06 4.62 s 1,101 +26
2008-01-07 3.02 s 1,118 +17
2008-01-08 2.80 s 2,400 +1,282
2008-01-09 2.44...

Not really, but some of the members and staff here have pointed out that I should change welcome message to an image. I had vaguely heard of this before, but hadn't given it a ton of thought...Actually, I figured I would "get around to doing that after I bought vBSEO." Well, coincidently, I used a tool I found at Link Vendor SE Spider Crawl .
It allows you to see what the SEs see when they crawl your page...holy bad SEO.

This is what they saw on mine:
"Physical...

Seems like more bots are crawling. Not sure what more I could expect after these few days. Still, progress!

Okay, that raises another issue I have been thinking about. Metrics. Bottom line, for a site like mine (no adsense), the only metric that counts is new members. But much of that is content and presentation driven. There is nothing vBSEO can do about the content, if it's bad, members won't join, if good...well, you get the idea. So, number of pages indexed, PR, all these other...

This is great all the stuff I am learning. Part of the problem is that it is a lot of info and for every question answered, it seems like more questions pop up. Nature of the beast in learning new things....

I read up on directories today. Submitted to 4 or 5. We'll see if that does anything or if I get listed.

I feel a little better about user guide question I had. I just read VBSEO GOLD GUIDE TO LINKBACKS....that is the kind of stuff I was looking for. I am hoping there...

Well, I hope this will help my results. I installed a robots.txt file on my server.

If I understand correctly, the idea is to limit SE robots counting irrelevant material in order to get a better keyword to content ratio. And this should help the relevancy of my pages...right?

I copied and pasted the contents of my robots.txt from a post in the forums here.

If you have been following my blog (thank you, fans), you know I am new to vBSEO and while not...