my progress report

Installed and modified. Thanks go out to Juan for jumping right in and helping me get it all set up and running.

You wont believe this, well I almost didnt anyway. Installed this yesterday, and I already have my first vbseo page listed on yahoo.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sit...b-t&fl=0&x=wrt

For some reason, it redirects to the home page of my forum. They wont all do that will they?

Edit - took the www off of the search, and I have 5 vbseo pages!!!!
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sit...b-t&fl=0&x=wrt

yeah, just the first one redirected to my home forum page. The others work great. I am very pleased to see these pages indexing already.

• Still a huge number of yahoo spiders constantly on my site. I think they have gotten trapped
• Noticing quite a few lesser known spiders crawling all throughout the site as well.
• seeing 3-4 google spiders per day
• Pages in Google - 695
  • VBSEO pages - 1
• Pages in Yahoo - 19,000 - This number is really fluctuating up and down right now depending on the datacenter it seems
  • VBSEO pages - 113
• Pages in MSN - 1343
  • VBSEO pages - 380

Early results are showing MSN to be aggressively changing/adding vbseo links. Yahoo has incorporated the vbseo link fairly quickly as well.

I think Juan noticing my forums were only showing threads for the last month and having me change it to "the beginning) is helping quite a bit as well here.

RED = Drop in number
GREEN = Rise in numbers
BLACK = no change

Not going to panic about this.... but....

Other than my forum home page, which is PR4, I have lost PR for the rest of my forums. Is this due to the new CRU that has not yet been measured by G yet? (hoping this is the case)

Well, a few days later, and really no change other than I have lost ranking for all keywords at yahoo except for one of them. The rest have dropped off the map completely. I subscribed to the yahoo directory over the Thanksgiving holiday, and was accepted Monday evening, still waiting to have my site show up in the directory though.

Pages indexed climbed at msn, but dropped back down. indexed pages at yahoo goes up, then back down. Absolutely no change at google, and only 4 pages indexed with vbseo in it at google.

Ok, it has been about 2 1/2 weeks

Since the installation of vBSEO.

It remains to be seen if these numbers will hold, but here is what I have. I am posting this update due to some pretty significant changes in my google statisctics.

Indexed Pages (measuring from pre-vBSEO installation)

• Google - 17,300, 7 are vBSEO'd
• Yahoo - 20,000, 4300 are vBSEO'd
• MSN - 1767, 1051 are vbSEO'd

Keyword Rankings (measuring from pre-vBSEO installation)

rather than list them all seperately, I will just say that after a major drop in rankings right after installing this software, many keywords have climbed back up. I dont blame the drop on vBSEO, as it happened with in a day or two after the installation, nor will I give credit at this point for the climb. I will hold back judgement in this area either way for now. I will note one of my keywords here though that has significanty risen in google and yahoo

• fantasy football rankings
  • google - 10, up 17 spots
  • yahoo - 3, up 6 spots
  • msn - 37, down 12 spots

To add to this update, I must mention that I applied to and was accepted to the yahoo directory 1 week ago.

12/25/2005

Indexed Pages

• Google - 818 - 198 are vbseo'd. 205 of the total pages are forum pages.
• Yahoo - 14,100 - 5,790 are vbseo'd.
• MSN - 2,812 - 1,980 are vbseo'd

Keyword Rankings - Overall, I have several google keywords showing up with decent rankings now.... Here are a few from google, many of them you can see old rankings in a previous post.

• fantasy football draft - 3
• fantasy football ranking - 5
• fantasy football forums - 7
• 2006 nfl draft - 9
• fantasy football cheatsheets - 9
• fantasy football rankings - 11
• nfl draft - 20
• fantasy football advice - 25
• fantasy football resources - 48

overall, rankings are looking much better than a couple months ago. The changes made to my forums include vBSEO, vBSEO sitemap, vBSEO conditional signatures.

It appears I am just now beginning to get my site indexed with vbseo pages in google, and I would expect that within the next month or two, hopefully sooner, we will all be blessed with a google PageRank update. It will be intersting to see what happens with PageRank as all my current vbseo'd pages have 0 rank and before the installation, much of my forums content had PR.