Is Your Blog Indexed?

Search engine traffic is extremely important because it is targeted traffic. A reader lands at your blog based on a topic of interest they searched for so they are already interested enough to read your blog. If they like what they see they might even become repeat visitors or subscribe to your blog. Once I started getting interested in search engine traffic I wanted to see if what I was doing was effective at getting traffic from search engines. Essentially my question was how do I know my blog is indexed by a search engine?.

The main method I use to determine search engine indexing is my stats. I watch my stats for signs of the search engine bots crawling (aka indexing) my blogs as well as actual traffic from them. The stats I use also has a search engines wars feature so I can compare the amount of traffic from a few search engines. What is very interesting about this feature is when I first started tracking search engine traffic, my most popular blog (cooking) was getting traffic mainly from Google and minor traffic from 3 other search engines. Now it is getting traffic from 16 search engines. In other words whatever I am doing is working since I've gone from getting traffic from 4 search engines to 16. I'm rather pleased about this. I'm seeing similar results in the stats for my other blogs so that is very encouraging.

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