MSN first to index, but where are the results
Submitted by ihouston on Wed, 2007-01-31 04:47.
So after submitting my site to the big three late on the 24th, both Yahoo and MSN have hit the site (along with a handful other bots I didn't ask for). So far only MSN is saying it has heard of this site but I'm not placing very well in the results for "globalwarming awareness2007". Thats OK, there are months to go and I have not done anything that would generate external linking to the site. Still waiting for googlebot to show up.
I looked at some of the competitor sites again today. Specifically I was looking at how they were generating links. Welcome to the world of reciprical linking. When you look at the back links for some of the sites you find a whole realm of misused and abused link submission directories, public bookmrks and Dig or reddit wanna be sites. Now there are a couple schools of thought on the value of forming link affiliation. For my part I thought quality was a factor in the equation but my beliefs are being challenged by the top links to the winning sites coming from hundreds of these little nothing sites that have absolutely no relevance to globalwarming awareness2007.
Oddly though the winning site at the moment doesn't have any back links showing up on Google.