SERP Monitoring “achill island” on Google – 16.02.2009
In General this week there have been only minor changes in positions, over all most of the sites stayed in exactly the same place as last week. On the Other hand we have seen really big movers and also quite a few pages that appeared for the first time. The overall number of results has also increased to more than 600.
Weekley Google SERP Report “achill island”
SERP Monitoring “achill island” on Google – 09.02.2009
First Page
Number in brackets, showing last weeks position
1. www.achilltourism.com (1)
3. www.achill-island.com (3)
5. www.visitachill.com (6)
7. www.achill247.com (5)
9. www.achillproperty.com (8)
Last 5 Results
Number in brackets, showing last seen position
497. www.d0okinella-pipeband.com (-)
459. www.achillholidayhomes.com (470)
436. www.bervieachill.com (-)
427. www.achillcamping.com (435)
418. www.realtnamara.com (449)
New in the List
204. www.achillpottery.com
354. www.thesaulagallery.com
436. www.bervieachill.com
497. www.dookinella-pipeband.com
Not in the List this Week
Number in brackets, showing last seen position
www.achill-surf.com (444)
Winner of the Week
Number in brackets, showing last weeks position
168. www.achill-online.net (279) +111
88. www.redfoxpress.com (198) +110
342. www.achillcottage.com (399) +57
30. www.achill-ireland.com (52) +22
Looser of the Week
Number in brackets, showing last weeks position
187. www.thesandybanks.com (89) -98
104. www.achillbliss.com (60) -44
340. www.kerndter.eu (314) -26
101. www.art-gallery-ireland.com -20
Submitting your URL to Google, Yahoo & MSN
Posted on Februar 9, 2009, under Knowledgebase, SEM, SEO, SERP.
The Three big Search Engines Google, Yahoo and MSN have improved their services for submitting and monitoring URLs in the last years. The probably better known of both are the Google Webmaster Services. MSN Live has setup a similar but far less comprehensive service called Live Search Webmaster Center, so does Yahoo with its Yahoo Site Explorer. All three services require a login. You can use the Google Service, by registering you Google Account to this Service. To use the Microsoft Service you will need a Windows Live ID and for Yahoo login with your Yahoo Account.
To submit or update your URL you should use the URL Submit/Update Form (no login required). A better way to tell Google about your page/site is to submit a xml-sitemap. You can do so by login into the Google Webmaster Services. If you have authenticated your site by adding a special metatag
<meta name="verify-v1" content="unique_id" />
to the <head> section of your index page, you will be able to upload a sitemap for that site. The unique_id will be generated by Google, depending on your sitename. Alternatively you can upload a special file to the root folder of your webserver. To learn more about Sitemaps Google provides very detailed information. Once you have a sitemap generated and submitted you might need to tell Google that it has changed, when you have added, deleted or modified pages. Some systems like e.g. Wordpress, do so automatically if you have the right plugin installed, some do not. So to “ping” Google to refetch your sitemap you can use the following:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url
where sitemap_url is the URL of your sitemap.
MSN Live
The same procedure for submitting / updating information about your URLs and sitemaps apply to MSN Live. You can submit an URL to MSN Live, tell Microsoft to fetch your xml-sitemap and “ping” the service to refetch you sitemap, by using the following:
http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=sitemap_url
Where sitemap_url is the URL of your Sitemap. MSN also requires the authentification of your site, you will have to place a special metatag
<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="mail_id" />
to the <head> of your index page, where mail_id is generated from the email adress you registered the page with. Alternatively you can upload a special file to the root folder of your webserver.
Yahoo
Last but no least, also Yahoo provides the possibility to add an URL to Yahoo. You can also register your site with the Yahoo Site Explorer and upload an xml-sitemap. Here too the authentification of your site is required and you can do so by adding
<meta name="y_key" content="unique_id" />
To the <head> section of your index page, where unique_id is generated by Yahoo. If you want to ping Yahoo to fetch your sitemap, use the following format:
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ updateNotification?appid=api_id&url=sitemap_url
Where api_id is your Yahoo Developers ID and sitemap_url the URL to your sitemap. Alternatively you can upload a special file to the root folder of your webserver.
SERP Monitoring “achill island” on Google – 02.02.2009
First Page
1. www.achilltourism.com (1)
3. www.achill-island.com (3)
5. www.achill247.com (7)
6. www.visitachill.com (5)
8. www.achillproperty.com (9)
Last 5 Results
399. www.achillcottage.com (422)
372. www.calveysofachill.com (383)
341. www.west-end-house.com (345)
326. www.dooagh.com (334)
324. www.achill.com (314)
New in the List
175. www.rowlandrental.com
279. www.achill-online.net
Not in the List this Week
www.agtek.ie (313)
www.achillcamping.com (435)
www.realtnamara.com (449)
www.achillholidayhomes.com (470)
www.achill-surf.com (-)
Winner of the Week
81. www.art-gallery-ireland.com (272) +191
Looser of the Week
198. www.redfoxpress.com (81) -117
314. www.kerndter.eu (248) -66
75. www.valley-house.com (27) -48
Google says the Internet will harm you, even their own Website …
The internet is bad!
Google has patches something to its search results, which apparently is not really working. Whatever search you try it comes up with a warning about the site maybe harming your computer…
Google has been working on this kind of Malware warning for a while and seems to have implemented the ultimate filter. That also makes the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostics page redundant (which displays a 502 Error at the moment)
For more Information on thet topic: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/05/safe-browsing-diagnostic-to-rescue.html
Monitoring “achill island” on Google
About two weeks ago I started a weekly monitoring of the search string “achill island” on Google.
Here a few interesting Facts about this search:
- Even though the search shows “Results xxx of about 375,000 English pages for achill island. (0.45 seconds)”, Google will only show 661 results. Even after clicking on the link repeat the search with the omitted results included. It will only show a maximum of 872 results.
- Doing first search beginning of January only scanned the first 100 results, returning 25 sites based on Achill Island.
- Last week I went through all 661 results and ended up with a total of 44 results (6.66%) being local sites, of which 23 were in the first 100
- Today I found 43 sites (6.51%), of which 24 were in the first 100
- All together I found 49 local sites so far, some sites seem just dissappear, to reappear the week after.
- Some sites I know have not made their way to this search at all. This tells, that the relevance of the website is minor in relation to the monitored search string.
In Detail:
- www.art-gallery-ireland.com was on position 69 two weeks ago, and dissappeared last week. This week I found it on position 269
- www.blackfield.com appeared under the name www.twilightguardian.com two weeks ago as well as this week
- www.redfoxpress.com dropped from position 72 to 191 and came back to 81 this week
- www.clubachill.net made a leap from position 417 last week to position 243
- www.achill-surf.com dissappeared.
Winner & Looser
This weeks winner are: www.clubachill.net (+174) and www.redfoxpress.com (+110). This weeks looser are: www.achillbliss.com (-23), www.realtnamara.com (-20), www.achill-ireland.com (-16) and www.achill.com (-15)
Top & Bottom
On the first page of the Google Search results you will find: www.achilltourism.com (1), www.achill-ireland.com (3), www.visitachill.com (5), www.achill247.com (7) and www.achillproperty.com (9). On the last page you will find: www.achillholidayhomes.com (470)
