Fully indexed and ranking in MSN
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Well Waterutopia.com has been online for a couple of weeks now. It has been found by Google (though not fully indexed) and has now been totally eaten by MSN.
I took my time to create and submit a Froogle / Google Base feed as well, though this has yet to bring in any sales. The adwords campaign that I was running did bring in a number of sales though I have now turned it off so that I can really see the impact that the organic listings will have on business within the site.
The key to all of this so far has been making sure that the sections are well grouped, optimised and that the urls appear static to the search engines. Though these days having static urls does not make as much of a difference as it used to, it still does remove a factor that could possible still hinder a sites ranking positions in the SERPS.
Here are the traffic stats thus far. Remember that this was a brand new domain and site. Also remember that NO PPC has been used during June.
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2006 | 396 | 573 | 5327 | 31191 | 164.27 MB |
| Jun 2006 | 211 | 245 | 975 | 6521 | 42.09 MB |
| Jul 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 607 | 818 | 6302 | 37712 | 206.36 MB |
I will keep you posted on the progress of the site, however for now a few sample terms to try in msn are:
Blow Up Pools, inflatable rectangular pool, Blow Up Swimming Pools
