Google who art in Heaven....

Those readers who have been following my 360 degree feedback site in these postings may have noticed that it took a massive hit on the rankings this morning, down to page three or even page four on google.com. A bit of investigation shows that many of the blog entries are showing up in the search engines with unexpected URLs. So my hypothesis is that the homepages of the blogs are being crawled, but not the archives. Obviously after a while each blog posting ends up in an archive and is therefore less visible to the search engine spiders.

My answer to all this: I created a couple of pages PPP BTY which contain links to all the blog entries about my site - in the hope that they will soon be spidered, that the blog entries will be discovered and properly indexed together with the backlinks to my site.

Meanwhile - look at my position in the listings and pray....

Search Lord in Cyberheaven

Lord Google, of all the cyber Gods;
Thou art the mightiest, of them all.
Hallowed by thy glorious name;
Ever shalt though reign.
Let not temptation fall upon me to spam you,
Lest my penalties be eternal SERP damnation.

Bless my 360 degree feedback site with a one thousand hits a day.

The SEO's Prayer....

Google.com who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy first page,
Thy PageRank cometh,
Thy algorithm be done,
In the Adwords as it is on Page One,
Give us this day,
Our targetted inbound traffic,
Forgive us our duplicate content,
As we pray for those who link to us,
Tempt us not to spam,
Deliver us from the Supplemental Index
The listings, the SERPS and the PageRank,
Are yours now and evermore.

Search Google.com - bless our 360 degree feedback website.

The search continues....

Next stage in the great Google experiment to see how blog entries affect the ranking of my 360 degree feedback site. Remember I am going to mention it in a post on here every day for the next three or four weeks to see how the ranking is affected.

At the time of writing google.com lists me at nbr 18 for "360 degree feedback" having gone up a notch from yesterday. The highest it has been is nbr 8 on google.com and it is consistently nbr 1 or nbr 2 on google.co.uk.

My hypothesis is that google are picking up on the RSS feed from Blogger and hence we are seeing a fairly immediate step up in the listings followed by a drift back down.