Seo Experiment - February

Time to take a break from what was supposed to be a light hearted look at customers - back to the ongoing SEO experiment to document what's happened there since January.

Site 1 (31 posts) - 17 pages cached: home page 36 days. January archive not listed, but others all cached 22 days ago. The posts were cached 20, 6 X 21, 22, 38, 39 and 40 days ago. Quite interesting that it's not been cached at all recently. Average over 25.5 days.

Site 2 (32 posts) - 33 pages cached: home page 12 days ago. All archives are cached: 2 X 6, 16, 18 and 22 days ago. Posts (this gets harder every time... 4, 7 X 6, 5 X 8, 9, 10, 11, 2 X 12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22 and 2 X 24. Avergage under 11.5 days.

Site 3 (32 posts) - 30 pages cached: home page 9 days ago. All archive pages cached: 11, 15 and 3 X 22 days ago. Posts: 2 X 3, 5, 6, 8, 2 X 9, 2 X 11, 12, 4 X 15, 2 X 16, 20, 2 X 21, 2 X 22 and 24 days. Average under 14.5 days.

I also put Google adsense in this month, and the traffic volumes can be seen from that. Site 1 has had hardly any clicks - probably just be viewing the positons of the adds. Site 2 has hard marginly more than site 3. This could be as much about the randomly selected content as the popularity. But with the large increase in posts this month, this random distribution of articles should be evened out.

Looking at how the sites are archived and the slightly higher traffic rate to site 2 and the distribution of page ranks across the 3 sites, site 2 is still winning on all 3 counts.

Also looking at the duplicate content filter. I've just searched on a string from an article that was published to all 3 blogs at the same time, earlier this month. You only need to look at the results above to know it's not going to be in site 1's cache, but the duplicate article is in the other 2 sites' caches. Neither comes up in main results, but do appear in the supplementary results. Interestingly, the article was new and then distributed to an article directory. It's the article directory that does appear in the listings - probably I listed it too quickly there.