Comments on: How Long It Took For Google to Find My New Squidoo Lens https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:31:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 By: Brendon https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-6917 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-6917 Well it has been almost 2 weeks and no indexing from google….I am stumped. Thought I was on the right track!

]]> By: Catherine https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-5964 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-5964 I am experimenting with squidoo and google indexing at the moment, trying different things to see which gets me indexed, so I was pleased to find your blog today (for the first time). I will be having a good read through.

]]> By: jlyn12 https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-3413 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-3413 Really appreciate these tips. I set up my first lens a few weeks ago and no Google traffic yet. I have a blog, so posting about my new lens is now priority, as well as checking out the SquidUtil, etc. So much to learn! Thanks.

]]> By: guy https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2980 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2980 I have to agree with daria369. I’m trying my best to make sense of this but it’s enough to make your head spin. What’s the best product out there that goes into detail for this info?

]]> By: daria369 https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2775 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2775 All that seems so overwhelming to me that I’m more than happy that someone else is doing these researches and test and I am able to just learn about them and use what works… So – thanks again!

]]> By: sprincebiz https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2726 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2726 Hey Potpiegirl,

Thanks for all the info! I actually clicked over from the WA forum and basically thought I can use all the help I can get with Squidoo. Granted I am still pretty knew with only 3 lenses, I couldn’t see why I couldn’t find any listed in Google. Let me ask if I got this wrong from other info–linking to other lenses with related content helps your lens–is that wrong or right? Am I hurting myself by using the discovery tool, having featured lenses, or even lensrolling? The things I’ve read make it sound like it all helps with Google finding you like tags and also supposedly helps with Google rankings.

]]> By: malcolms https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2395 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-2395 Hi Potpie Girl
Your lenses are very helpful and I like your blog too. Some of my lenses pick up traffic from my posts. Not the title or even the url but the actual content of the posts. I guess if the content is relevant to the search terms used by surfers then the spiders are on their way to check you out. I also theorise that squidoo itself has something to do with it, even if your lens is WIP it is still included in the mix when thousands of other lenses are being crawled. So long as your content is relevant to others. If you post links to other lenses (link module) and also that you have other great high rank lenses in your profile. Lastly maybe the spider was close to your lens when you published and jumped across anyway, lucky girl.

]]> By: Dimitri https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1674 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1674 now you totally confused me, hmm…

]]> By: jeffwend https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1616 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1616 For me, lenses often get their first Google traffic within 24-48 hours. The hard part is continuing the traffic. After making a lens, I add it to a few Squidoo directories from suqidutils, use Stumpmedia, Stumbleupon, Mixx.com, and zimbio.

]]> By: PotPieGirl https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1510 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1510 { PotPieGirl }

@Cowy – Good! I’m so glad to hear that this all worked for you! While I’m sure this system is not fool-proof, it does seem like we are on to something =)

@Melissa – When I first started online and decided on the name PotPieGirl, there were exactly ZERO pages in the entire Google index with that name/term on it. Now, there are over 7,000.

Even so, Google still asks me “Did You Mean TotalGirl?” LMAO! I imagine that maybe someday, Google will recognize me as something other than a typo.

Whether its my ‘brand’ that leads to this indexing situation, or not, I have no idea. However, I do know that G and other search engines crawl this blog quite frequently. Interesting concept tho… and one I will be sure to explore.

Thanks for reading!

]]> By: Melissa Burton https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1509 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1509 It’s your name, PotPieGirl. It has to be — it’s all about branding, and your name is being crawled…maybe. Could it be???
Melissa

]]> By: cowy https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1492 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1492 Oh yeah, just for addition, I also use nofollow for all affiliate links, so in the lens don’t give any links to anyone= The lens has more inbound links than outbond links..

]]> By: cowy https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1491 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1491 Hi Potpiegirl. I just want to give a report that your method Work!! Woo hoo, in One day, my lens get indexed in Google and Have good position in some keyword too. I promote a certain product and ranked well in the Product’s name too.

Let’s see, here is what I have done to make it appear in Google:
– Post a blog post in My Own Blog
– Ping it via SquidUtils
– Post a blog post in Squidtop
– Digg The Blog pOst in My Own Blog
– Digg the Lens (Last things I do)

Hope it will help 🙂

]]> By: PotPieGirl https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1482 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1482 { PotPieGirl }

Thanks, Fluff. I got to looking at my stats and saw a click thru from the SquidUtils directory. Got to looking at the directory and new lenses pages and saw the times… thought maybe I was on to something. But… I’m wrong. You answered my next question as to WHEN a new lens shows.

Long story short, I thought SquidUtils.com was a hint to the indexing, but I don’t believe it is (however, SquidUtils.com is MIGHTY powerful – those that read this far down need to know – USE SQUIDUTILS.COM )

Thanks, Fluff!

]]> By: thefluffanutta https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1481 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1481 Jennifer – times on your Lensmaster page are in BST (i.e. GMT+1 hour). The creation times in the directory are probably EST (GMT-5 hours?), which I need to fix. The new lenses appear in the directory within 24 hours of coming out of WIP.

]]> By: Kimberly at Squidoo https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1478 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1478 Neat breakdown. It will be interesting to see what comes of this!
~Kimberly
Squidoo’s Community Organizer

]]> By: PotPieGirl https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1477 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1477 { PotPieGirl }

@ theFluffanutta – Good point about the tags – I didn’t think about that. As for Squidoo ‘pinging’ Google for each new lens, I imagine that is quite possible. This blog automatically pings a list of services each time I post, and Google comes a-crawling. Thing is, why wouldn’t Google come to ALL new lenses and index them all as quickly?

As for Google traffic, one of the lenses (the tv commercial one) is already seeing organic traffic from Google. That lens seems to rank well, while the low cost hosting lens is in a much more competitive query space and needs a ranking boost.

Fluffanutta, I need to ask you something about SquidUtils.com. Are the times reflected on various pages of your site in GMT time? Also, do new lenses in a certain category get shown on your directories as soon as they are published? Or after Squidoo gives a ‘green check’?

Thanks for reading… this little mystery has me mighty perplexed!

Jennifer

]]> By: thefluffanutta https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1476 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1476 I checked with a reliable source (Gil), and only featured lenses get listed to Google (i.e. once they are out of wip).

]]> By: thefluffanutta https://www.potpiegirl.com/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1475 http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/#comment-1475 This is an interesting puzzle…

We have to rule out tags too, because your lens doesn’t appear on the tag pages until it is out of WIP, just as with your Lensmaster profile.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe Squidoo automatically pings Google when a new lens in published. Another Lensmaster did mention this on twitter once, but they didn’t back it up.

It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes for traffic to start coming to your lens from Google. Be prepared for it to suddenly vanish too…

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