Mashing Windows

MashingWindows.com Alexa ranking has improved to 1,119,984 from 1,229,116.

Pages Index Report:

• MSN: 2 pages;
• Yahoo: 5 pages;
• Google: 11 pages.

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MSN has finally indexed Mashing Windows, showing 2 pages;  Yahoo remains unchanged with 2 pages indexed, while Google now shows 14 pages indexed.

Alexa ranking is still 1,229,226.

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Google has 11 pages indexed, Yahoo 2, and MSN is still clueless about Mashing Windows.

I resubmitted the site to MSN today, let’s see how long it will take for Mashing Windows to show up there.

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MashingWindows.com has made its appearance on Yahoo

and the number of pages indexed by Google is escalated to 6

while the new Alexa Rank is now 1,229,116.

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Time to get some add-ons for Firefox, in order to recreate the functionality of the Windows machine:

• Cooliris Preview, at times it’s annoying, at times it’s useful, the jury is still out on this;
• MeasureIt, this is cool, if you do any web development, it will let you measure -in pixels- sites directly on the browser;
• Pearl Crescent Page Saver, a very efficient way to get screenshots of your web page, above and below the fold;
• SearchStatus, this is very cool, if you are involved, or just interested in SEO, this is a must have;
• Session Manager, a must have for everyone.

The only disappointment was that IE Tab is not available for Mac OS X.

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Interesting curiosity, Google at one point had indexed 8 pages, while today, 11 blog entries later, there are only 4 pages indexed:

For current Google indexing, click here.

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Alexa Rank for Mashing Windows today is:   2,315,268; not bad for a blog built on a domain name that did not exist 5 days ago.

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Somehow the very first entry of this blog (link here) has disappeared from Google, interesting . . .

Will it be back on the next pass?  Googlebot last crawled the site about an hour ago (31 Oct 2007 – 20:44).

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All Hosting services give you some type of web stats, Hostgator gives me AWstats and Webalizer. That and Google Analytics will give you too much information, contributing to your information overload.

I check Google Analytics every day, and once in a while I will also check the AWstats, especially on a new site to verify that it is indexed by the search engines.

Looking at the stats for Mashing Windows, it seems that Google and Yahoo have found it, by MSN is missing in action.

The good news is that Alexa, the Web Archive and Ask have found this blog, along with 4 other robots in incognito.

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Aaron suggested that I use Yahoo’s Site Explorer and Authenticate the site and the XML feed in order to expedite Yahoo’s indexing of the blog.

Pretty simple procedure:

1. Go to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com;
2. Log in with your Yahoo account, otherwise sign up for one (free);
3. Enter the url of your site or blog to the box on top of the page, then click on “Add My Site”, and your site will appear in the list below the box;
4. Click on the “Authenticate” button;
5. This will bring you to a new page, where you’ll have two methods to authenticate your site:
   - Uploading an authentication file to your site;
   or
   - Adding a META tag to your home page.
6. I opted for the first option, so I downloaded the proper file and uploaded to the site (link);
7. Click on “Ready to Authenticate”;
8. If you have a plain web site and no blog, you’re DONE!. If your site has feeds, as in a blog, you need to do one more step: click on the “Manage” button;
9. On the next screen you’ll enter the feed path of your site or blog, usually “/feed” or “/feed/atom”;
10. Click on “Add Feed”;
11. DONE!

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