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I have been relaying my experiences with IceRocket's stat tracker, so I figure another update is appropriate.
Recently, I noticed a dramatic drop in this site's statistics. For quite a while I just chalked it up to people not digging the ajlcom...(I know, inconceivable right?).
Well, in reality it was that IceRocket stopped collecting/reporting stats on sites with multiple domains. I was getting all the stats for www.AaronJLynch.com but, as it turned out, none for ajlcom.InstantSpot.com.
My AaronJLynch.com site has been around much longer, but the way that the search engines spider InstantSpot has really boosted the relevance of the ajlcom.InstantSpot.com traffic.
I quick email to IceRocket about the issue and they replied back that they are going to try and get that issue addressed in their next release (i think he said in the next week).
Recently, I noticed a dramatic drop in this site's statistics. For quite a while I just chalked it up to people not digging the ajlcom...(I know, inconceivable right?).
Well, in reality it was that IceRocket stopped collecting/reporting stats on sites with multiple domains. I was getting all the stats for www.AaronJLynch.com but, as it turned out, none for ajlcom.InstantSpot.com.
My AaronJLynch.com site has been around much longer, but the way that the search engines spider InstantSpot has really boosted the relevance of the ajlcom.InstantSpot.com traffic.
I quick email to IceRocket about the issue and they replied back that they are going to try and get that issue addressed in their next release (i think he said in the next week).
Chris Rutherford said:
You guys might want to block either your domains or your instantspots from being indexable as your going to loose relevancy due to duplicate content as this could really hurt your SERPS... What would be cool is if you guys figured out how to just link from instantspots sites to the proper domain (for example, when it showed this new blog post on instantspot's homepage it would link to http://aaronjlynch.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/12... instead of http://ajlcom.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/... This would prevent the duplicate content from getting you or worse instantspot from being blocked in googles serps. I'm sure you guys have thought of the dup. content issues, just reminding yall.
I was also really surprised at how often the spiders visit instantspot. Most stuff I post appears in the search engines within about 2 days.
I was also really surprised at how often the spiders visit instantspot. Most stuff I post appears in the search engines within about 2 days.
Aaron Lynch said:
Ultimately, we want to drive traffic to the InstantSpot domains. That is why we chose to make those links happen off the main site.
Google does spider us a lot, it is pretty remarkable the kind of relevance we are seeing on our stuff.
Google does spider us a lot, it is pretty remarkable the kind of relevance we are seeing on our stuff.
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