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:
- Blog Rank: 104,717 (56 links from 33 blogs)
- Technorati’s Recent Posts from Email Monitoring + Email Filtering Blog
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?…
2 Comments
at 1:17 am - 8th January 2007 Permalink
Depends on what bots count as “backlink”. For example Yahoo counts all my blog comments even though most have the nofollow tag, while Google does not.
at 4:36 pm - 8th April 2007 Permalink
The google is not doing slow. It is hiding. What the backlink checking command only shows some sample links you are getting. In the real Google machine, they knows all(maybe more than other search engines). It just doesn’t show. So, don’t worry, your backlinks are working.
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