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is google really that slow at identifying and indexing backlinks?

Whilst on my weekly search engine optimisation (SEO) tasks, I am really getting the feeling that the Google bot is way behind the other search engines bot for identifying and indexing back-links.

I use WebSEO as my SEO tool, and this tool reports on the following back-link data:

  • Altavista: 546 links to my blog
  • Google: 5 links
  • HotBot: was 4349 links but sadly dropped to 28 links (scratching my head on this one…)
  • Yahoo: 1005 links
  • Windows Live (MSN): 4324 links

This blog has been operational since August 2006 so Google has had plenty of time to catch up. Maybe the latest news about all the Google data-centers being full to capacity may have some bearings?

I use Technorati to publish my blog feeds and it today records:

These 56 links can be seen at Dicontas Blog Links from Technorati.

The msnbot does a really quick job at keeping up with all my blog changes, so why not google?

Is the size of Google’s bot too big to fit into its current pair of jeans?…

Email Security and Productivity Tips

A great list of 99 tips that help to make up the best in email practices has been produced. This list can be viewed at Email Security & Productivity Tips. It discusses many areas from how to ethically use the ‘BCC:’, to what attachments will make your mobile emailing compatible with everyone else’s.

This covers Etiquette; Communicating & Effectiveness; Mobile Email; Productivity, Folders, and Filtering; Email Attachments; Tricks, Hacks, Backup; System-Specific Mail; and Privacy and Security.

Additional References referenced by the Author are:

This Email Security & Productivity Tips and additional references lists were produced by IT Security.

Welcome to the Dicontas Blog Site!

This is a business-focused blog area specialising in email monitoring, email filtering, content filtering, email administration, services, issues and related news.

It is primarily aimed at IT and HR business professionals within organisations that monitor its business email communications for email compliance – and to ensure that company security and policy standards are being adhered to.

Also discussed is general advice for other blog administrators. e.g. the use of WordPress as a blogging tool, WordPress plugins to make the blog feature rich, and other topics on search engine optimisation (SEO).

I hope you enjoy this site and that it is informative for your needs.

This blog is managed by Dicontas – providers of outsourced email filtering administration, email monitoring administration and centralised email content assessment services.


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