Sunday, January 15, 2006
Researching How Well Your Site Is Spidered With SearchIt! Free Internet Marketing Research Tool
The SearchIt! free search tool consists of a window with two dropdown boxes and two text boxes. In the two dropdown boxes, you select the type of search you want to do. In the two text boxes, you select the search criteria (such as keywords or URLs) you want to use.
Rather than repeat the introductory info about SearchIt! that I shared previously, I suggest that you see the October 2nd blog for this information. Or simply realize that it is important to click all the links and read all the instructions that SearchIt! tells you to do.
You'll find SearchIt! A LOT easier and more valuable to use if you do that.
Using SearchIt!
Last week we continued covering some site research tools, including ways that SearchIt! can help you find related sites for joint ventures or link exchanges. This week we'll look at how SearchIt! can help you keep track of how well the search engines are spidering your site.
In the Step 1 dropdown box, scroll down under Site Research and select Indexed Pages.
Click the dropdown box for Step 2: Select Search Type. You'll see the following options.
All of these options, except the "Date Last Spidered by Google" option, are almost identical except in the search engine that it queries. So, rather than repeating exactly the same information for each of them, I'll deal with them all as one.
Type the domain name (without the http:// or the www.) in the Step 3 box. Click the SearchIt! button.
The intro page talks mainly about how SiteBuildIt! takes care of all of your submission needs for you automatically, even monitoring pages to determine -- automatically -- which need to be submitted and which don't.
When you're ready to view your results, click the link at the bottom of the intro page. Toward the top of the results page you'll see a message that states how many pages it is showing out of the total number that the search engine finds in its database for the site. Take note of the number of pages that the search engine says it found. That is the number of your pages that that search engine has spidered.
Date Last Spidered by Google
Type the the full url of the page (although without the http://) in the Step 3 box. Include the www. and include the page name after the domain name (for example, www.domain-name.com/page.html) Click the SearchIt! button.
The intro page discusses some of the reasons that it can be useful to know when Google last spidered that page. When you're ready to view your results, click the link at the bottom of the intro page.
Your results will show the most recent version that Google has of that page. Near the top of the page, it identifies the most recent date that Google spidered the page.
One glitch about this, though. If your site uses css and you have designated your page heading to start at the top of the page, it may cover Google's heading and the date. You can still find the date, but will have to view the source of the page to find it.
Next week
This Sunday, we looked at how SearchIt! can help you keep track of how well the search engines are spidering your site. Next week we'll look at how SearchIt! helps you learn how many other sites are linking to you (backlinks).
All in all, SearchIt! can find you lots of valuable information. The main thing to remember is to READ THE DIRECTIONS. With as many tools packed into this one interface, you're not going to take one look at it and intuitively understand how to use every one of them. But the directions they give are easy, and they do more than just tell you how to use each tool; they also throw in tips on how to use the results you receive to make your site more successful.
SearchIt! is one of these free tools that really produces value for you. I recommend that you check it out and make it a part of your web marketing arsenal.
Jeff
The SearchIt! free search tool consists of a window with two dropdown boxes and two text boxes. In the two dropdown boxes, you select the type of search you want to do. In the two text boxes, you select the search criteria (such as keywords or URLs) you want to use.
Rather than repeat the introductory info about SearchIt! that I shared previously, I suggest that you see the October 2nd blog for this information. Or simply realize that it is important to click all the links and read all the instructions that SearchIt! tells you to do.
You'll find SearchIt! A LOT easier and more valuable to use if you do that.
Using SearchIt!
Last week we continued covering some site research tools, including ways that SearchIt! can help you find related sites for joint ventures or link exchanges. This week we'll look at how SearchIt! can help you keep track of how well the search engines are spidering your site.
In the Step 1 dropdown box, scroll down under Site Research and select Indexed Pages.
Click the dropdown box for Step 2: Select Search Type. You'll see the following options.
- Pages in Google
- Pages in Yahoo! Search
- Pages in MSN
- Pages in Teoma
- Date Last Spidered by Google
All of these options, except the "Date Last Spidered by Google" option, are almost identical except in the search engine that it queries. So, rather than repeating exactly the same information for each of them, I'll deal with them all as one.
Type the domain name (without the http:// or the www.) in the Step 3 box. Click the SearchIt! button.
The intro page talks mainly about how SiteBuildIt! takes care of all of your submission needs for you automatically, even monitoring pages to determine -- automatically -- which need to be submitted and which don't.
When you're ready to view your results, click the link at the bottom of the intro page. Toward the top of the results page you'll see a message that states how many pages it is showing out of the total number that the search engine finds in its database for the site. Take note of the number of pages that the search engine says it found. That is the number of your pages that that search engine has spidered.
Date Last Spidered by Google
Type the the full url of the page (although without the http://) in the Step 3 box. Include the www. and include the page name after the domain name (for example, www.domain-name.com/page.html) Click the SearchIt! button.
The intro page discusses some of the reasons that it can be useful to know when Google last spidered that page. When you're ready to view your results, click the link at the bottom of the intro page.
Your results will show the most recent version that Google has of that page. Near the top of the page, it identifies the most recent date that Google spidered the page.
One glitch about this, though. If your site uses css and you have designated your page heading to start at the top of the page, it may cover Google's heading and the date. You can still find the date, but will have to view the source of the page to find it.
Next week
This Sunday, we looked at how SearchIt! can help you keep track of how well the search engines are spidering your site. Next week we'll look at how SearchIt! helps you learn how many other sites are linking to you (backlinks).
All in all, SearchIt! can find you lots of valuable information. The main thing to remember is to READ THE DIRECTIONS. With as many tools packed into this one interface, you're not going to take one look at it and intuitively understand how to use every one of them. But the directions they give are easy, and they do more than just tell you how to use each tool; they also throw in tips on how to use the results you receive to make your site more successful.
SearchIt! is one of these free tools that really produces value for you. I recommend that you check it out and make it a part of your web marketing arsenal.
Jeff
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