Our Cleveland Search Engine Marketing Made Simple Seminar in Cleveland kicked off a couple of hours ago. We’re at the Rec Center in Strongsville, with a small group of just under 30 people.
While some of the sessions are going, I am sitting outside chatting with Anita Campbell, regarding the changes she’s been observing in the Search landscape. One of the things she mentioned is the speed of indexing and ranking. With her blog, Smalll Business Trends and how quickly rankings change and shift very quickly these days.
So, we decided to run a test. We’re both going to write a post about some pretty non-competitive phrases (Search Engine Marketing Made Simple Experiment) and just see how fast they get indexed and rank. We’re guessing that they’ll be indexed and ranking within a half hour.
I’ll post later with the results.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I forgot to mention, it was posted at 10:32 a.m.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am
OK, it was indexing and ranking in less than 5 minutes. It’s now 10:47 and it was indexed 7 minutes ago. So, well under 10 minutes. Unfortunately, I was in a conversation with a client and couldn’t document, but I’ll be uploading a screen shot shortly.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:44 am
[...] Geoff Karcher, owner of the Karcher Group which is putting on today’s conference. put up a blog post this morning as an experiment. He wrote the post about the phrase “search engine marketing made simple experiment.” [...]
March 27th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Indexed within half an hour? Weew! That will push link builders/search engine optimizers to double their effort to be able to compete with millions of internet business companies in this nowhere world of internet…
March 27th, 2008 at 10:08 am
It’ll definitely keep SEO’s on their toes.
Keep in mind though, that these were very non-competitive phrases we were optimizing for. I’m sure the rankings would have been different had we attempted a broad/generic phrase. But our intent was just to test the speed of indexing.