Yesterday I had submitted the sitemap of my site to both Google and Yahoo. I am going to find out if the search engines have visited my blog or not. I first log into my cpanel and look for lit of visiting crawlers. Both Google and Yahoo have visited my blog. Google seems to have beaten yahoo on speed. Here is a snapshot from my webstat for your reference.

Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25)   –   Full list   –   Last visit
4 different robots* Hits Bandwidth Last visit Googlebot 8 8.63 KB 12 Dec 2007 – 15:39 Yahoo Slurp 7 49.68 KB 13 Dec 2007 – 11:30 Unknown robot (identified by ‘bot/’ or ‘bot-’) 2 11.08 KB 09 Dec 2007 – 19:31 Unknown robot (identified by ‘crawl’) 2 49.74 KB 13 Dec 2007 – 09:31

* Robots shown here gave hits or traffic “not viewed” by visitors, so they are not included in other charts.

Next I want to figure out if they have added my site to their index or not. So I head to google.com, put my site name (binaryday.com) into the search box and hit enter. Oh no. Bad Google It has not yet added my site to its index. Let us see if Yahoo i any better. Again I head to yahoo, enter binary.com into the search box and hit enter. Yahooooooo…It has indeed added my site to its index.

Verdict of the Day : Yahoo rocks. It has added binaryday.com to its index in less than 24 hours since I submitted the sitemap to it. 

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