Purple Widget – An SEO Experiment

The entire Purple Widget website is now indexed in Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.purplewidget.com&hl=en
It shows all 16 pages that existed (before this post created a new page).
Of course we don’t rank in the Top 30 for the search term purple widget just yet – in fact we’re not in the Top 500 results, but it should be noted that [...]

Purple Widgets is now LIVE in the Google index!  Only 1 page, but we’re there!  This isn’t a revelation by any means but still nice to see, took less than 3 full days:
Pages from your site are included in Google’s index. See Index stats.
Ironically it’s not the home page.  But that will change soon:
First Link [...]

I’ve taken a step toward getting “seen” on the web.  A sitemap.xml file has been submitted to Ask, MSN and Google.  I used a WordPress plugin to automate this process for me.

Status

Your sitemap was last built on October 1, 2008 8:51 am.
Your sitemap (zipped) was last built on October 1, 2008 8:51 am.
Google was successfully notified about changes.
MSN was successfully notified about changes.
Ask.com [...]

I’m glad you asked.  As you can see by the title this site is an SEO experiment.  So that clears it up – right.  Thanks for stopping by.
Okay, a bit more.  My name is Scott Endsley, I’m an SEO Marketing Strategist for VML in Kansas City.  I’ve been doing search engine optimization for several years [...]

Now that I’ve been live for a day and a half I figured I should get Google Analytics installed, as any SEO will tell you – you must have analytics on a website or you have no idea how and why people are getting to your website.  Nobody is really visiting this site so it [...]

I’ve been thinkg about it and talking about for a long time now and finally – I’m live!
You’ll be learning much more in the very near future about PurpleWidget.com but for now it’s important to know the following:
It is 7:47pm CT (that’s 8:47pm ET for those that don’t realize anything exists outside the East coast) [...]