I asked myself this question so many times, “Can Bing and Yahoo! really compete with Google?” So I documented something last night.

Ok, ok, this morning, at past 2 o’clock in the morning.

I have to admit, I slept late las night, I mean morning already. I wrote a blog entry for my personal blog and posted it at 11:53pm, just before midnight. Then I finished reading and scanning other blogs that I am subscribed to. I have a habit to read everything before I sleep. It took me a while though to finish reading and scanning them.

Then before I went to bed, I thought of checking the top 3 search engines if the blog entry, Mount Gurten, Wabern, Bern, Switzerland Day Trip, that I posted at my personal blog got indexed. I typed the keywords “mount gurten” in Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and what did I find?

Well, the blog entry was number 3 on the first page of Google search engine results page (SERP) while it cannot be found in Bing and Yahoo! search engines.

I typed the keywords “mount gurten wabern” and it was number 1 on the first page of Google, and again, it cannot be found in Bing and Yahoo! search engine results pages.

Google was so fast in crawling my site and indexed the blog entry within 2 hours. What was Bing and Yahoo! doing then?

Just before I posted this blog entry here, I checked Google, Bing and Yahoo! again. The search engines results pages (SERPs) are the same.

Which makes me really wonder, can Bing and Yahoo! really compete with Google?

I know Bing and Yahoo! have different algorithms than Google but does it not show that they are not sort of paying attention when people are publishing?

Google, Bing and Yahoo! search engines already indexed my personal blog and other blogs, so to crawl and index it again is not a problem. So what makes Bing and Yahoo! so slow in finding out that a website or a blog has just been updated?

Maybe sleeping?

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ProBlogit.com ProBlogging Venture Tips and Ideas, Reviews and Opinions has been crawled and indexed by Google. Pro Blog it dot com is 1 month and 2 days old today. It was also a month and 2 days ago when I submitted ProBlogit.com to Google search, MSN Live search and Yahoo search, the day I started writing about problogging. I did not really mind when it will be indexed or crawled by the big search engines but just after a few days, I saw that all the three search engines have already crawled ProBlogit.com.

I just left it that away, and then thought that I might as well document the search results so I can share the reports to you. So after three weeks of being online problogging and that was a week ago, I checked Google search, MSN Live search and Yahoo search.

The image of the screenshot above was taken on April 30, 2009. I only got the above results after searching Google for the second time using the same keywords “problogging ideas”. ProBlogit was ranked number three during the first Google search.

I concentrated on Google search results, used different keywords to see how did I do with Google search. For a time being there, with keyword “problogging” I was in page 6 and sometimes page 7 on April 26, 2009, and in page 1 with “problog it”, “problogit”, “problogit.com” keywords. I did not check other keywords other than that but on April 30, 2009, I checked again how was Pro Blog it doing with Google search. I used some more other keywords to search for Pro Blog it at Google.

Pro Blog it Google.com Search Results on April 30, 2009 using the following keywords:

Page	Number		Keywords
7	4		problogging
2 	6		problogging tips
1 	3		problogging ideas 	1st search
1 	1		problogging ideas 	2nd search
1 	3		problogging tips and ideas
1	9		problogging reviews
1 	1		problogging venture
6 	10		pro blogging tips
1	6		pro blogging ideas

Pro Blog it Google.com Search Results on May 04, 2009 using the following keywords:

Page	Number		Keywords
23	9		problogging		1st search
21	4		problogging		2nd search
4 	5		problogging tips
1 	4		problogging ideas	1st search
1	3		problogging ideas	2nd search
1 	3		problogging tips and ideas
2	2		problogging reviews
1 	3		problogging venture
19 	4		pro blogging tips
3	5		pro blogging ideas

What about the “problog it”, “problogit”, and “problogit.com” keywords?

Pro Blog it Google.com Search Results on April 26, 2009 using the following keywords:

Page	Number		Keywords
1	1		problogit
1	1		problogit.com
1	2		problog it

Pro Blog it Google.com Search Results on May 04, 2009 using the following keywords:

Page	Number		Keywords
1	6		problogit 			1st search
1	4		problogit 			2nd search
1	5		problogit.com 		1st search
1	3		problogit.com 		2nd search
1	7		problog it

I did not search Google on April 30, 2009 using the above three keywords but the sites which are ranking higher today than Pro Blog it are actually my two other Websites, my web design site and my personal blog.

With keywords “pro blog it”, I could not seem to rank high with these keywords, so today I changed the title from “ProBlogit.com” to “Pro Blog it”. You probably noticed it. I would like to see how will it affect my rank at Google with keywords “pro blog it”.

So, you see, it is like a now you see now you don’t thing, and it is like riding a roller coaster, in a few minutes you are somewhere up there, and in just a matter of seconds, you are down somewhere, or even nowhere to be found.

How does Google crawl or index the sites or blogs? As I see it, the more you write, the more Google will find you. But there are hundreds or thousands of people out there, bloggers and probloggers alike who are writing every minute of the day, so your rank at Google search is most likely to change everyday, every minute of the day.

I just realized too that because I am not writing during Saturdays and Sundays, Google seems to notice it.

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We have our blogs but no one is reading them. That is always the problem of new bloggers. Well, it is not just enough to start a blog, and write content for a blog. We also need to promote our blogs. But before we promote our blogs, let us make sure that we have enough blog entries. If people decide to visit our blogs, we have enough articles for them to read.

There are several ways to promote a blog or a Website.

1. Search Engines

Submit your blog to the search engines. Google, Yahoo and MSN Live are the most popular search engines. The truth is even if I have no content on my websites or blogs, I always submit them to Google Search, Yahoo Search and MSN Live Search. Take note, I just do that for the search engines only.

I will give you the links right away, where to submit the url of your blog.

To submit the url of your blog at Google, go to
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl.
To submit the url of your blog at Yahoo, go to
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit.
To submit the url of your blog at MSN Live Search, go to
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx.

With Yahoo though, you will be prompted to login first before they will process your submission. You can also submit your blog feed if you like.

What is the difference between a feed and url? In this case, the original RSS feed of this blog is http://www.problogit.com/feed because I am using WordPress as the publishing platform.

But I am using FeedBurner too, http://feeds2.feedburner.com/problogit for other purposes which I will be discussing later on. The url is the domain name itself, http://www.problogit.com only.

You can also further submit the url of your blog to other search engines like AOL, Alta Vista, Lycos, Ask.com, Cuil.com and a lot more.

Sometimes just like Yahoo, some of the search engines might ask you to open an account with the search engine first, so be prepared for that. Take note though, when you open an account with different search engines, please use different passwords. You can use the same username but make sure you have different password for each account.

2. Social Media

Join social networking services. There are different kinds of social media such as social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, microblogging sites, video sharing sites, and photo sharing sites among others.

Popular social networks are Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, Bebo, Orkut and Hi5. There are more sites like Multiply, Tagged, Tubely, Skyrock, and WAYN among others, and there are still a lot out there.

When you join these social networking sites, be wary of others too. Just don’t bombard your friends and colleagues with all your blog entries. Do it in moderation. Give them some time to get used to your style of updating them on what is happening to you through your blog.

Popular social bookmarking sites and social news sites are StumbleUpon, Delicious, Bloglines, Technorati, Digg, and Reddit among others. Google Reader is now considered as social bookmarking site as well.

Popular microblogging sites are Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku among others.

Popular video sharing sites are YouTube, Vimeo, Revver, and Metacafe among others.

Popular photo sharing sites are Flickr, Zooomr, Slide, RockYou, and Photobucket among others.

With all these sites, you need to open an account, so you know more or less that you will be memorizing a lot of passwords, which is again another topic to be discussed later on.

3. Internet Forum

Join Internet forum. It is another way of promoting your blog. You will learn a lot from the discussion inside the forum. If you have any questions, people are always willing to help.

4. Other Bloggers and Probloggers

Visit the blogs of other bloggers and probloggers. Study their blogs and eventually join the discussion by commenting on their blogs. Sooner or later if they think that you are good, there is a possibility of guest blogging. Meaning, you might be invited to write for their blogs. That is a great indication that you are indeed on the right track. It will definitely be very beneficial to you especially if the probloggers are very popular.

There are still a lot of ways on how to promote your blog such as having newsletters, paid advertising, attending social media events, and joining discussion groups, and so on, and so forth. But I know that you will soon discover them for yourself, so I just wrote about the popular ways on how to promote a blog.

Well then, if you are ready to promote your blog, hop on to those sites I mentioned and get yourself known in the world of problogging.

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