SEO Tycoon

**SeanB** · 11:27 AM

I just found this tool that you can use to compare the saturation/indexing of your site compared with others:
http://tools.seobook.com/general/sesat/

For mine, troublefreepool.com, it shows zero for MSN, yet when I click on the zero, it takes me to a list of indexed pages. What I'm noticing is that all of the indexed pages on google and MSN are cached from the past 2 weeks.

This corresponds with the timing of my installation of a phpbb seo mod so I'm wondering if perhaps this is why the pages are all so recent - or is that just typical?

Also, any idea why MSN would show zero in the result, yet still have indexed pages?

**chrishirst** · 11-07-2007, 04:55 PM

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This corresponds with the timing of my installation of a phpbb seo mod so I'm wondering if perhaps this is why the pages are all so recent - or is that just typical?

Maybe maybe not. HOWEVER, no doubt installing a "seo" mod, whatever that maybe, has changed ALL the URLs in the site, so you'll have to wait until all the pages are recrawled and reindexed, may take 4 to 6 months for everything to get back to whatever "normal" would be.

**Learning Newbie** · 11-07-2007, 05:32 PM

I just tried. It says my blog (www.great-library.com) has 344 pages indexed in Alltheweb, 319 in Google, 327 in Yahoo, and 0 in MSN.

Probably MSN recently changed their code a little and broke this tool. I wouldn't pay it any mind.

**SeanB** · 07:34 PM

Thanks Chris and John. That makes sense.

I'm at 290 on Alltheweb and 2750 on google and zero on MSN and Yahoo. I wasn't really worried about it, just wondering about the efficacy of the mod.

**Learning Newbie** · 11-07-2007, 07:49 PM

Do you know how the mod works, what it changes, or anything along those lines?

**SeanB** · 11-07-2007, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Do you know how the mod works, what it changes, or anything along those lines?

Here's a link:
http://www.able2know.org/forums/about15132.html

The main goal is to make the urls easier to crawl. It actaully removes some features from the page for guests/spiders to keep them focused on the real content. It also makes the urls appear as static html urls; which according to the author is "search engine candy." I suspect that may be a bit of an overstatement, but doubt it hurts. Anyway, you can read about the specifics in the link above.

**chrishirst** · 11-08-2007, 04:41 AM

That "article" is so full of totally wrong information it's hard to know where to start

**SeanB** · 11-08-2007, 10:59 AM

I don't think it's intended to be an artilce, but a thread about the mod which started in 20003. I would bet that SEO itself and what's considered good practice has changed quite a bit in 4 years. For example, he talks about "page rank drain" issues quite a bit. Now, manipulating page rank is seen as a waste of time, but it would still seem to make sense to remove some of the uneccesary forum features/links, from the guest view if those things might dilute the real content and take the spider away from the information you want crawled.

The thread goes on for 162 pages so maybe they've cleared up some of the errors, but I couldn't say since I'm not about to try and go through all that.

The main thing I needed was the url change, which removes session ids from guest urls. This seems to be done by all the seo related phpbb mods though so you do have choices.