If you have a blog, here's a tip how to leverage your blog to help search engines quickly find a new page on your web site. If you have a website, but no blog, perhaps this will convince you to consider starting your own blog.
I conducted this test a few months ago when both my website and blogs were fairly new. My website, in fact, was still experiencing the Google and Yahoo delays for new sites and I had only a few pages indexed in both Google and Yahoo. My blogs had significantly more pages indexed and more search engine traffic.
I created the new web page on my website (http://www.terrakon.com/sales-questions/). Then, I created a relevant post on this blog (Marketing Centricity) with a link to the new web page on my site.
Within ten hours, the web page had been spidered by the major search engines (Yahoo, MSN and Google). In less than three days, the page was indexed by MSN and Yahoo - and Google a few weeks later. Even better, the page regularly appears in the top rankings for one of my keyword phrases in at least one of the major search engines.
For my "control," I created a different new page on my web site (http://www.terrakon.com/sales-book-summaries/soft-sell.php). After three days, it had only been spidered by one engine (Yahoo) and not indexed by any of the search engines.
Based on my limited test, as well as several other test results I've seen, it seems you can speed up the spider and indexing process by utilizing your blog. Give it a shot and let me know what happens with your site test.
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