Ok, ok, this morning, at past 2 o’clock in the morning.

I have to admit, I slept late las night, I mean morning already. I wrote a blog entry for my personal blog and posted it at 11:53pm, just before midnight. Then I finished reading and scanning other blogs that I am subscribed to. I have a habit to read everything before I sleep. It took me a while though to finish reading and scanning them.

Then before I went to bed, I thought of checking the top 3 search engines if the blog entry, Mount Gurten, Wabern, Bern, Switzerland Day Trip, that I posted at my personal blog got indexed. I typed the keywords “mount gurten” in Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and what did I find?

Well, the blog entry was number 3 on the first page of Google search engine results page (SERP) while it cannot be found in Bing and Yahoo! search engines.

I typed the keywords “mount gurten wabern” and it was number 1 on the first page of Google, and again, it cannot be found in Bing and Yahoo! search engine results pages.

Google was so fast in crawling my site and indexed the blog entry within 2 hours. What was Bing and Yahoo! doing then?

Just before I posted this blog entry here, I checked Google, Bing and Yahoo! again. The search engines results pages (SERPs) are the same.

Which makes me really wonder, can Bing and Yahoo! really compete with Google?

I know Bing and Yahoo! have different algorithms than Google but does it not show that they are not sort of paying attention when people are publishing?

Google, Bing and Yahoo! search engines already indexed my personal blog and other blogs, so to crawl and index it again is not a problem. So what makes Bing and Yahoo! so slow in finding out that a website or a blog has just been updated?

Maybe sleeping?

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If you are new in blogging and problogging, I recommend that you read the problogging summary guide to starting and implementing a blog. This particular blog entry will guide you on how to go about planning, starting, setting up, and implementing a blog.

You can either read everything in one day or read one blog entry a day. It is important that you understand everything on how to start and implement a blog. Once you grasped everything, move on, and just do it. Then continue reading other articles that I shared in this blog. I am sure you will learn more from reading the other articles.

If you are an experienced blogger or problogger, why don’t you stick around and read on. If you stick around, it is a win-win situation. All you have to do is spend a few minutes of your time reading, and at the same time you are also learning. You will gain more additional information from what I have been sharing so far and what I will be sharing more in this blog.

So, stick around, read on, and let us learn together in my problogging adventure.

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Ten (10) Points to guide you to Starting and Implementing a Blog

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In my experience, to get indexed by Yahoo! is not really that difficult. The difficult part is, how are you going to get the top spot on the search engine results page (SERP) of Yahoo! Search.

If you would like your blog or site to get indexed by Yahoo!, all you have to do is read the details at Yahoo! Search Submission page. You can then submit your site for free at the Site Explorer – Submit page or Site Explorer – Yahoo! Site Explorer page for inclusion in Yahoo! Search.

This submission requires Yahoo! registration, so make sure you have an account with Yahoo!. If you have no account yet, just sign up for a Yahoo! account at https://login.yahoo.com/.

After you submitted the site, you will be redirected to sign in at Yahoo! Then you will be redirected again to the page shown below.

It says:

Thank you! Your URL has been added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled.

Note that in the effort to maximize the quality of search results that appear on Yahoo! and our other distribution partners, we do not add every submitted URL to our search index. Therefore we cannot make predictions or guarantees about whether your URL will appear as a search result.

That’s all!

But you might need to authenticate your site though, then authenticate your site.

And if you would like to make sure that your site was really added, click “My Sites” at the sidebar on the left.

If the site is listed, then everything is fine.

If you do not see the site, fill out the one line form provided, then click “Add My Site” button.

If you need to authenticate your site, then authenticate your site.

Once you authenticated your site, Yahoo! will crawl and index your site whenever it wants. Your site will be crawled and will be indexed but there is no assurance that your site will be at the top spot of the Yahoo! search engine results page.

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I have written before that Google crawls and indexes the site or blog any time it wants. Google Search will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants to crawl and index your blogs and sites. Sometimes you may influence the search results but you cannot really play a game with Google Search. But once in a while, you might actually be able to “game” Google Search.

I cannot tell you how to do it though as I do not play that kind of game. But let me show you an example how other blogs and sites may have played a game with Google Search concerning crawling and indexing and even taking the top spot on the search results page.

On September 02, 2009, I wrote this blog entry, Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland at Sofie Hofmann dot com. Yesterday, I saw that Google Search crawled and indexed another blog entry with the same title but with a different URL. The content on that site was copied from my blog entry, Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland which was published at Sofie Hofmann dot com.

I was surprised that Google Search crawled and indexed the different URL faster than my blog entry which is actually the original source of what Google Search crawled and indexed yesterday.

I checked Google Search and found out that the blog entry with a different URL was number 1 on the first page using keywords “inverness mouth of the river ness” and my site Sofie Hofmann dot com, not even the blog entry, was on the fourth page. I also checked other keywords like “inverness mouth” and “inverness mouth river ness”. The other URL was number 2 and number 3 respectively on the first page. My site was on the fourth page and third page respectively but the blog entry itself was nowhere to be found.

Those were the search results as of yesterday, the last time I checked Google Search. It may change in the next few days though if Google Search will recognize that my blog entry has more value than the other one.

Then I checked Google Blog Search using keywords “inverness mouth of the river ness”, “inverness mouth river ness”, “inverness river ness”, and “inverness mouth”. I saw that my original blog entry was actually crawled and indexed by Google Blog Search on September 02, 2009, the same day when I published Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland at Sofie Hofmann dot com. My blog entry using the keywords that I already mentioned was number 1 on the first page. When I tried using the keywords “inverness scotland”, the blog entry was only number 4 on the first page.

What I was just blogging were the reasons why I say that Google Search is maybe smart but not so intelligent enough. I say that Google Blog Search is smarter and more intelligent than Google Search in recognizing which one is valuable having crawled and indexed the original article instead of the copied one. I just do not know if Google Blog Search lets itself to be fooled too by other blogs and sites where Google Search, in my opinion, failed big time.

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Ever since I came back from vacation in May, my priorities changed. I was again on vacation in July, so I was not able to write a lot on this blog. My priorities right now are more directed at my personal hobby which is golf. Problogging is taking a back seat at the moment and golfing is at the center stage.

I was a little bit hesitant to tell you the story of my golfing experience but I thought that sharing it with you would give you the same encouragement to achieve your goals. I am telling you this story because I always like to compare problogging from playing golf. The things that you need to achieve your goals be it in problogging or playing golf have similarities, that is if you are familiar with golf. If not, try to replace golf with your own game.

Whatever game you play, you need to set your goals. You need to set your priorities. You need determination, patience and perseverance to achieve those goals.

Last year I set some goals for the year 2009. One of those goals was concerning golf and that was to decrease my handicap to below 18. So I started working on it and training myself mentally. Taking a vacation in the Philippines in May this year and having played golf even just twice only made me realize that I can actually achieve having a handicap below 18 as I saw that I actually improved my game.

When I came back here in Switzerland and participated on the golf tournaments starting June 13, 2009, I was able to decrease my handicap, slowly but satisfying enough. I even won a few prizes for playing better than my previous handicap. You can read my blog entry about it at Perks of Playing Golf at my personal website at Sofie Hofmann dot com. I just thought that if I set a goal and if I would like to achieve it, all I have to do is set my mind into it and I will definitely be able to get it. I really had this determination to get a handicap below 18.

Taking a golf vacation in Ireland in July gave me another chance to practice playing in a lower area than in our golf club. I was able to determine what club or iron should I use on certain distances as I was a little bit confused about it for a certain time. I made some changes in my golf swing, my golf grip, my stand, and the way I think. I have more self-confidence now. I started believing in myself that I can achieve lowering my handicap. Two weeks after I came back from vacation in Ireland, I was able to achieve my goal to decrease my handicap to below 18.

On August 1, 2009, I decreased my handicap 18.6 to handicap 17.6, and on August 8, 2009, I decreased my handicap 17.6 to handicap 17. To give you an idea about this achievement, on January 2009, I had a handicap 21. Lowering my handicap was not done overnight, it was done in different stages, in various weekly golf tournaments from June 2009 to August 2009.

I set a goal and I was so determined to achieve it. I set my mind into it and I got it.

So what does it have to do with problogging. Well, you can definitely apply it in problogging too. Set your problogging goals. Set your mind into achieving those goals. Set up some strategies to achieve those goals. Study your strategies carefully. Apply your strategies to achieve those goals. Some of your strategies may work or may not work but trial and error will always give you some lessons to learn. Learn from those errors and see where you should focus. If a change is needed, do not hesitate to make some changes.

In my case, as I have said, problogging is taking a back seat. I have not been exploring the make money blogging business for quite some time. I have nothing to share at the moment but I will try to share with you some topics other than making money problogging.

As you can see, I have been sharing other topics with you like how to optimize your site or how to get indexed by Google and Bing. For the meantime that problogging is taking a back seat, let me share some other things with you other than making money online.

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Your blog or site could get indexed by Google within 3 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 hours, 3 months, or it could even take longer, or not get indexed at all. If you would like your blog or site to get indexed by Google, you have to learn how to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google. That is the fact and that is no secret.

On August 11, 2009, I wrote this blog entry How to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google which was published at 10:25am. Then I checked my Google Reader as I am monitoring and tracking other sites using several keywords. There I saw that at 10:28am, Google crawled and indexed the blog entry.

How to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google blog entry was indexed by Google within 3 minutes. Then I checked Google Blog search after 12 minutes and saw that it was actually really got indexed by Google. But when I checked the main Google search, it was nowhere to be found. I left it at that as I know Google behaves differently. Google “thought” that my blog entry on how to optimize your crawling and indexing was not relevant at that moment.

After two weeks, I checked Google search today. I entered the keywords “how to optimize your crawling and indexing” and saw that the blog entry is finally listed, number 5 at the second page, Results 11-20 of about 47,200 for how to optimize your crawling and indexing keywords.

I also would like to tell you that the blog entry was not linked anywhere but I was linking several relevant topics to it. It just goes to show that with or without incoming links, Google will index and crawl your blog or site any time it wants. You can influence it a little bit but no matter what, it is Google dictating how it should be done. Some of the blog entries that I wrote got indexed within 3 minutes, within 1 hour, and within 12 hours which shows us that crawling and indexing a blog or site vary from the point of view of Google.

By the way, just a note, I changed the title from “How to optimize your crawling and indexing with Google” to “How to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google”.

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One good thing about this topic is that, I do not have to write about it anymore. Google Webmaster Central created a very good and useful slide presentation on how to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google.

It was shown at the slide presentation what not to do with your site so that your site will be crawled and indexed faster. Aside from what has been shown on the slide presentation, they also wrote some more recommendations to help the crawlers find your content faster.

Remove user-specific details from URLs.

Rein in infinite spaces.

Disallow actions Googlebot can’t perform.

One URL, one set of content.

The four recommendations above were discussed at the Google Webmaster Central Blog on how to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google.

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Last week, I wrote about the topic on how to get indexed by Google. I did not exactly know how and when Google indexed the blog entries of Pro Blog it. I just know that I wrote quite a lot for ProBlogit.com and linked the blog entries if they were worth linking for, both internally (from this blog) and externally (from my other blogs) without using Digg, Reddit nor StumbleUpon. I have an idea how ProBlogit.com got indexed, I just did not want to sound too presumptuous that I know a lot about it.

I decided to make an experiment with Bing, formerly MSN Live Search. I noticed that most pages that Live Search have, they were like transferred to Bing. ProBlogit.com was not really indexed yet by the former MSN Live Search so when I searched Bing, I only found one page which is the domain name itself.

On June 24, 2009, I submitted three domain names to Bing using the url http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx just to test how long the blogs will be indexed. But I realized that I can actually access the Webmaster Center of Bing when I changed the place from Switzerland to United States as the link to the Webmaster Center is not available in Switzerland. Then I added three domain names to really get the blog entries indexed by Bing.

When I checked Bing today, I saw that ProBlogit.com got indexed but only three (3) pages. The other site got indexed too but the result is not that satisfactory. Then SofieHofmann.com got really indexed by Bing. The number of pages at SofieHofmann.com that got indexed by Bing increased from 29 pages when it was last indexed on June 25, 2009 to 62 pages when it was indexed on June 30, 2009.

If you noticed even if Bing crawled SofieHofmann.com after I submitted it, not a lot of pages and blog entries got indexed right away, only when it got indexed again after June 25, 2009. As I see it, eventually, once Bing and Google get a habit of crawling the sites and blogs, your blog or site will most likely going to be indexed, sometimes depending on the quality of your content. It could be indexed few minutes after you wrote a blog entry, maybe after a day, or it could also take longer than one week.

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I mentioned at the blog entry Prioritizing Maintaining Blogs and Sites that Google have not really indexed the blog entries of Pro Blog it and so I am redirecting my focus to my other blogs. I did not check Google before I wrote that blog entry if Google already indexed the blog entries only to find out today that Google have actually crawled and indexed the blog entries of Pro Blog it, ProBlogging Venture Tips and Ideas, Reviews and Opinions.

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Less than three (3) months after I launched this blog, the blog entries have been finally indexed by Google. Maybe three (3) months is too long for others but that is good enough for me. It is better than not being indexed at all.

How and when did it happen? I really do not know. I was not really paying attention to it as I was on vacation for three (3) weeks. I am not an SEO / search engine optimization guru so I could not really tell you exactly what happened here. I know a little bit of search engine optimization though. I just did whatever I think was necessary and acceptable to Google.

I wrote content for this blog. I linked some of the blog entries if I find that it is worth linking from the new blog entry. Those are the two things that I can really tell you. Other than that, I really have no idea how and when did Google index the blog entries. I was not so trying hard to get the attention of Google. I just wrote content for this blog and that was it.

I have not even asked other bloggers and probloggers to link my blog from their blogs. I have not even started commenting regularly on other blogs using the domain name of this blog. I once made some comments to other blogs using my other domain name and then mentioned this blog just to inform some blogger friends that I finally started problogging.

I did not submit the URLs to Google, only the domain name problogit.com which I mentioned when I wrote ProBlogging ProBlogit.com Google Search Results. I do not have a detailed Google Sitemap but I have Archives page. I am not so very particular about these things but I do check once in a while how my blogs perform.

So, did I get Google to crawl and index my blog? Yes! How? I just wrote content for this blog, linked other blog entries every time I wrote a new blog entry, and that was it. But up to now, that is still a question, how to get Google to crawl and index other blogs and sites. As I see it, I think I just have to do what I did here, write more content as often as I can.

But wait, I would have to mention though that I have an account with Google Webmaster Tools where I added this site or the domain name problogit.com. I think it is necessary to mention this as this has definitely a bearing on how and when ProBlogit.com was crawled and indexed by Google.

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I made a decision and commitment to update this blog on a daily basis, and was able to share a few things of what I did, and will continue to share a few more things of what I am going to do along the way concerning problogging. As this problogging venture is an experiment which does not only involve this blog, I also started updating my other blogs which I have not been updating regularly to at least once a month. Then I also started updating the other blogs and sites at least once in two weeks. I was slowly making a habit to write content for my other blogs and sites until I went on vacation last month.

Now that I am back, I changed something on this blog upon realizing about a few things on problogging everyday. Instead of updating this blog on a daily basis, I decided to do it only if I have something to share with you with regard to problogging hoping to still do it on a regular basis but only at least two times a week.

I thought that if I was able to update this blog on a daily basis, I can as well do it with my other blogs which actually have been indexed and crawled by the search engines, and also already have readers. All I have to do is develop those other blogs and sites and write more often. The front page of this blog and other pages have been indexed by Google but the blog entries are still waiting to be crawled.

With that, I thought I really have to reconsider my options and priorities. I will prioritize the other blogs at this stage while I am trying to establish ProBlogit.com. I know it will take time but I have all the patience and desire to succeed in this endeavor. I will take it slowly, one at a time, always remembering what I wrote about Problogging, Golf and Patience, until blogging and problogging everyday will just become a habit. There will be a point and proper time that I will be problogging everyday again on this blog.

It is just that, I have been having my other blogs and sites for quite a long time now, actually since 1999, and I do not want to give them up. I do not want to make a choice whether to give up the other blogs and websites or just maintain one blog or two blogs. The way I see things right now, it is just a matter of making a habit and prioritizing what to do everyday.

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