While Google is promptly indexing content from some very active bloggers:
Murray's posts are indexed within the hour. See the notation "48 minutes ago" in this image.
The number of backlinks they are counting compared to Yahoo! and Bing continues to decline:
Change in GrowMap backlinks being reported by Google, Yahoo and Bing
This information comes from the free test version of MazeCore Monitor we are currently testing. It shows our indexed links at Google and Yahoo are down -1 and -374 respectively while our links in Bing are up 4 and backlinks at Bing are up +1280!
MazeCore Monitor Backlinks for GrowMap
The dark blue line on the bottom is Google, the red line is Yahoo and the huge increase shown on the orange line is Bing. Does anyone else wonder why Google only counts 28 backlinks, Yahoo counts 1,647 and Bing counts 5,090?
Could Bing be counting Social Networking activity? What do YOU think?
MazeCore Monitor certainly looks interesting. The free version allows you to track one Web site and three keyword phrases.
What the MazeCore Monitor SEO Tool does
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Twitter: Ileane
November 17, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Twitter: @Ileane
Hi,
Thanks for the post. I have a question about search – I always hear about Google and how important it is to follow Webmaster tools and so on. Now that Bing is becoming more popular do they have a set of rules that people should pay attention to in order to improve Bing search ranking? I would think somethings would be different because you don’t get the same search results.
@Ileane
.-= Ileane´s last blog ..Top 5 Blog Topics =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 8, 2009 at 10:29 am
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Ileane,
Google is still the gorilla of search; however, it would be good to optimize for the others as well. I have not yet researched how to improve results for any of the others because usually if you write as I advise in Selecting Keywords First and use an SEO optimized Theme like Thesis or a plugin like All-in-one-SEO you will be well indexed almost anywhere.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..MEME: Share What Makes You Feel Thankful =-.
Twitter: thekg3
November 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Twitter: @thekg3
how to get yahoo ,bing or google backlink?
yours is so good its make me shock
Thanks
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Thats very interesting stuff. Itrs amaying how frequently they update their listings…I often see sites in the listing that have been updated just minutes before!
.-= Adam @ D Rex Interactive Dinosaur´s last blog ..D Rex Interactive Pet Dino =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 8, 2009 at 10:25 am
Twitter: @GrowMap
Google has different result sections and is experimenting with how and what they display. The latest focus is on real-time results. Just remember that what gets indexed as real-time (like Twitter) will also be short-lived – those results appear and disappear very quickly.
If you want to maximize their benefit take a screen capture and write about it in a post or share them while they’re live.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers =-.
Twitter: hotlinegroup
November 17, 2009 at 8:41 am
Twitter: @hotlinegroup
From what i can tell google only show a random fraction of the link information they hold on links… but why the amount being shown is complexing.. all you can do is to keep linking
.-= graham@promotional bags´s last blog ..Promotional drawstring bags are this years hot promotional gift =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 8, 2009 at 10:22 am
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Graham,
You’re correct – they index far more than they display and more links from relevant, quality sites can increase traffic to any blog or business.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market? =-.
MazeCore Monitor is great tool and i think its easy to check the links with this tool. Really it is a great tool and thanks for posting this article it really helped me.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
I’m finding that MazeCore keeps me focused on the search engine positions of the most important keywords for each site I use it on. I highly recommend it as an inexpensive way to keep a business or blog’s traffic growing instead of slipping!
That is a really wild niche you’re targeting with your site: Movie News, Reviews, Bollywood, Tollywood, Jobs. Is it working for you? Check out the post featured in CommentLuv for this reply for tips on generating more traffic.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market? =-.
Twitter: murraynewlands
November 15, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Twitter: @murraynewlands
Gail I love how you use my site as the example here
I do not quite know why my site gets indexed so fast. I wish I new more to share.
Murray
.-= Murray Newlands´s last blog ..Twitter Contest =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Murray,
I know why your site gets indexed so fast – it is because you post so frequently. Search engines love fresh content.
Glad you noticed that I use real businesses and blogs as examples in my post. I would love to see more bloggers support the businesses and blogs they trust by doing the same.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Thankful MEME: Who Murray Newlands Thanks =-.
thanks fore sharing this useful tool.i appreciate your work.Google shows less links but i think they counts more.day by day they are decreasing the number of back links.
Great tool, this article realy help me. Thanks, it really looks promising!
I find Bing takes ages to rank my sites and when they do there’s barely any traffic anyway lol
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Google is likely to continue to be the Gorilla of search unless Internet users start making conscious choices to use other search engines. I recommend DuckDuckGo and Zuula. I especially like Zuula for blog search as it sorts results by relevancy AND recency.
The masses are giving Google far too much power and they don’t think enough or care enough to do anything about it.
P.S. Do you know we can’t access your site? I get 403 forbidden errors.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Better Live Chat Equals More Closed Sales =-.
The same happens with me recently when I check pagerank sites. It’s annoying and slightly confusing.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
They make it confusing on purpose.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..MEME: Share What Makes You Feel Thankful =-.
Yeah I’ve noticed similar trends in the indexing of many of my sites with google indexing a lot less pages then the other SEs.
Weird.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
What each search engine displays and what they’ve actually indexed are worlds apart. They continually change how much of what they’ve crawled is visible to those who search – and every person who searches can be shown different results!
All we can do is our best at getting relevant backlinks to quality content.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How Guest Blogging Can Change Your Life =-.
Twitter: ChugginMcCoffee
November 10, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Twitter: @ChugginMcCoffee
I have also had some serious issues in paying for back links, only to find out that they don’t remain live. That is incredibly frustrating. Google of course is always frustrating, but it is the one that you want to master. I find that I am normally at the top of the Yahoo rankings, and I fluctuate in Google.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
I suspect that most people who buy backlinks aren’t being choosy enough about what kind of links they’re paying for and the quality of the work. I delete almost all of the spammy comments that are obviously paid backlinks and so will many bloggers. Poor quality comments make really poor backlinks with super-short lives.
There are also greedy folk who will give you a link in return for something and then delete it later knowing most people will never know because they aren’t tracking them – or at least not each link.
Google is more than frustrating – they are dangerous. Imagine the impact having all your Google traffic disappear overnight would have on your business? Read Why You Can Not Rely Solely on Organic Search Traffic for more details.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Blog Outreach: 8 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Be Doing It Now =-.
Google had recently announced that they will start recognizing dynamic javascript links (simple onclick stuff), I expected the number of links to go up but apparently they continue to show a similar number. Bing might be counting redirected links or social media links there. I don’t thing Bing indexer / crawler would be any faster than GoogleBot or Slurp (Yahoo), they are either counting URL citations there or not removing earlier links fast enough
Twitter: GrowMap
November 10, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Matt,
It is obvious that the search engines and especially Google filter which results they show us and they do in fact show different results to people based on IP address and country.
They probably crawl much of the same content; it is what they choose to share that differs.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Gift Affiliate Programs Make Dollars and Sense =-.
Twitter: alinkbuilder
November 9, 2009 at 9:23 am
Twitter: @alinkbuilder
wonderful! MazeCore Monitor really works. I appreciate it that you shared something so useful with the readers of this blog.
.-= jim@thinkgeek coupon code´s last blog ..Special offer =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 10, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Jim,
I am finding the daily MazeCore reports very useful even though I’m only using the free version. I can imagine how valuable it would be to have instant graphic visuals of dozens of your most important keyword phrases.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Evaluate a Merchant Gift Affiliate Program =-.
Twitter: lasvegashomes
November 7, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Twitter: @lasvegashomes
Going to check out MazeCore after this. I have google alerts set up for link checking on competitors but it doesn’t seem to be as good as it once was. I did notice this last update that G is reporting far less links than ever.
.-= Charles@Las Vegas Property´s last blog ..First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extended =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 9, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Charles,
Check out the free backlink tool mentioned in the second comment too. That may be the slickest way to keep track on incoming links and also to track commenting activity.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Social Networking is NOT Chat =-.
Thanks for the great post. Yeah, Google can be frustrating…I generally have my seoquake tool bar running so it shows the links from Google, Yahoo, and bing. As for backlinks, Google is really all over the map while Yahoo seems to be the most reliable in my opinion. I have found that Google is not valuing fresh content as much as it used to. In my industry they are ranking dinosaur sites with no fresh content much higher than other sites who are working hard providing good content.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 9, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Alan,
Whether Google favors fresh content or dinosaur sites may vary by search OR it could be that the fresh content I see doesn’t have any strong competition from old sites. My recent posts about gift affiliate programs here and in Murray Newlands affiliate related blog both ended up on the first page the same day.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Instantly Acquire 76 High Quality Incoming Links =-.
Twitter: g_ro
November 6, 2009 at 11:05 am
Twitter: @g_ro
Google has always been known to show the lowest number of links. We generally use Yahoo’s data for backlink analysis.
Google is also placing some emphasis on first link priority – giving more weight to the first link of the page. It is something to look out for over the next few weeks.
.-= Greg Rollett´s last blog ..Whatcha’ Think I Blog For, To Push a Ford Contour =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Greg and thank you for the great tip about weighting. I’ll be sure to pay attention to what I link to first.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Best of GrowMap: Our Pillar Foundation Content =-.
Twitter: ArticleDirec
November 6, 2009 at 10:58 am
Twitter: @ArticleDirec
Thank you for sharing. This is a great tool, not just to track your sites backlink but also take a look at your competitors to see if they are growing at the same rate, better or slower than them. Have not looked at the software yet, but I would assume you can just type in any url. Thanks for the share. Cheers.
Also, it is a known fact that google always reports less backlinks compared to yahoo and bing. Webmaster tool typically shows more, however again fails to show all of your backlinks. Not sure why they fail to share the results with the users.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello,
The free version of this tool won’t let you but if you have the paid version you can track your competitors too. The fees are posted at MazeCore cost.
If anyone knows of other similiar tools please share them. There are many that will display the information but MazeCore is the only one I’m using that emails it to me so I can compare it over time and charts changes over time.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Top How to Make Money Blogging Resources =-.
I must say that I don’t fully understand this thing with backlinks and stuff but I’m just an old man that is not very advanced in computers. But until now i managed to use some interesting options.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Jason,
The first thing you may want to learn is how to use KeywordLuv to select your own anchor text. If you want to get more visibility for your site you could target phrases like “Miami motorcycle” or “motorcycle rentals” “florida motorcycles” or “American Rider” when you leave comments in KeywordLuv blogs.
See our DoFollow Tools and Lists for more details on that. We’ve just started using the backlink tool recommended in the second comment in this post to track the effectiveness of our comment links.
I would also recommend getting your business listed in Local Search directories. See the post linked to this comment and the Local Search and Special Offer tabs at the top of the page for more details on why that is important.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Instantly Acquire 76 High Quality Incoming Links =-.
Google was always show just few backlinks, but I think they are calculating much more links.
Mazecore seo tool looks pretty good – will test it. Thanks for sharing
Google has changed its algorithm … Due to it the results may look pretty weird….
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Gorizia,
Yes, they change it all the time. I see your site is Holidays in Venice. Is Gorizia a city in Italy?
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Evaluate Your AdWords Accounts =-.
I think it is just G trying to make it harder and harder for people to figure out what they doing with their algos. The less data they show, the harder it is to “reverse engineer” the thing.
.-= Jim Michels@ Indianapolis Painters´s last blog ..post1 =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Jim,
You’re probably right. I see you have a business blog and you’re checked out on using KeywordLuv. That is great. Check out the post we did on Selecting Keywords to get the best search engine placement for your blog posts and pages.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Social Networking is NOT Chat =-.
Twitter: LottoMan01
November 5, 2009 at 1:17 am
Twitter: @LottoMan01
I reckon it could be a couple of things.
1. Google has just gotten slack.
2. They don’t pay or give the Googlebots enough incentive and so they’re only doing half their job.
.-= Sire´s last blog ..Three Ways To Increase Your Ad Space Earnings =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Good to see you here again, Sire. Google has obviously been reducing the number of links they index – at least VISIBLY (meaning they probably have them but don’t display them). SEOs have used Yahoo instead of Google for link tracking for a long time.
Hopefully the Bing results may be indicating an improvement in tracking links related to Social Networking. Oh, did you see my recent Best of GrowMap post? I’ll feature it in this comment.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Best of GrowMap: Our Pillar Foundation Content =-.
Thanks for the post; I’ll be sure to check out MazeCore. I’m always looking for good tools to help with SEO.
One thing that I’ve found frustrating is exchanging or paying for backlinks only to find that the link is no longer live weeks or months later. I created a free tool (only requires a link for continued use) that automatically tracks the status of your backlinks. It also tracks the PR of the linking page, amount paid, anchor text, and more. You can check it out at http://www.backlinkreporter.com. I’d love to hear some feedback on the tool.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Jaron,
While we have never paid for links we get (and mostly delete) tons of links businesses are obviously paying someone to submit. We just signed up for and linked to your tool and will test is out.
It could come in handy for tracking comments left in blogs so we’ll be testing it for that use first. We’ve been looking for a better way to do that so thank you. If it works as well as I hope it will I’ll write about it in a future post.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Top How to Make Money Blogging Resources =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 10, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Jaron,
Could we interest you in creating a very similar free tool for tracking blog comments. Instead of the money columns we need columns for DF, CL, KL and PR. (Dofollow, CommentLuv, KeywordLuv, PageRank).
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Best of GrowMap: Our Pillar Foundation Content =-.
Twitter: saurabhsnv
November 3, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Twitter: @saurabhsnv
MazeCore Monitor is awesome and i think its wonderful to check the links.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Jim,
Yes, I am finding their information very useful. Having the paid version would make monitoring positions on your most important keyword phrases much faster and easier.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Instantly Acquire 76 High Quality Incoming Links =-.
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