Comments on: Google Indexing Speed

By: Felicia

Felicia — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:10:30 +0000

Tashana, I actually applied to About many moons ago. I went through the process of creating a mock About site and waited for many months to see whether or not I landed the gig.

I didn’t get the spot so I took all of that content that About didn’t want and became a Suite 101 writer. I haven’t looked at About ever since.

In the long run I believe everything happens for a reason. I’m sort of a free spirit when it comes to writing. Meeting my weekly obligation at Suite is probably testing my limit with mandated writing. I believe About has a minimum weekly or monthly writing requirement that is more than 1 article a week (I might be wrong).

As you probably know, I suffer from a self-diagnosed condition called work-aversion-it is. I get a sinking feeling in my gut which is followed by nausea and then the need to run for the hills whenever I am forced to write on a pre-determined schedule. That’s why I had to turn down the Examiner gig.

I know folks are making a lot of money at About, but I guess I’ll have to develop my fortune elsewhere.

By: Tashana

Tashana — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:33:28 +0000

Felicia have you ever thought about being an About.com Guide. They have a need for a social networking guide, a clip art guide and all types of things. From what I understand you are actually guaranteed a monthly fee on top of your page view residuals. I keep wanting to apply but they never have anything available that I’m actually a subject matter expert on. I’d be curious to know what you think.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:57:31 +0000

I see what you’re saying Bristolboy. I’m no expert on pings but a ping service notifies a network of update services of new content on a site. No need to manually notify everyone, the ping does all the work. Folks who visit those sites will know that my blog/site has been updated. Services like Technorati, Blogsearch, Pingomatic and a host of others spread the word.

Although Twitter is far reaching, I’m not so sure that my limited network of Twitter followers (or Redgage, eHow or Xomba followers) have the clout to spread the word quickly enough to get Google to index my site within 10 minutes of a new post.

Don’t get me wrong, I still use the TwitPress plugin which automatically tweets new posts and I occasionally use other sites for backlinks, but I’m not sure my backlinks and tweets have the same clout as my pings for quick indexing.

Wow, tweets, pings, it sounds like a song in the making.

By: Bristolboy

Bristolboy — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:08:55 +0000

I have heard a lot of people mention that pinging is a good idea for many services. However, would not a quick link on a well spidered social networking site (eg Twitter or even something like Redgage where you can also earn) do a similar job, as well as providing a backlink?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:59:49 +0000

I am still so horrible with html and the technical aspect of freelance writing. It’s something I really want to work on.

As for Google indexing speed, I think it has been slow for the past week. I know there were some people complaining about this over at Suite. I hope it doesn’t continue to be delayed.

Anyway, thanks again for the informative post. I always enjoy reading your posts because I almost always learn something new.
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