Hi All -
 As I was scanning sites again tonight, I actually saw a PR update going on as I browsed! (www.getaracecar.com from PR2-PR3 tonight, along with several other site changes)
Sites that were PR1 10 minutes ago… are increasing and changing as the night progresses!
Check your own sites… see if there are any changes.
Mark

Here are my stats. I don’t know what they mean or how I got them spidered.
helpyourdiabetes.com

Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25)   –   Full list   –   Last visit
 

6 different robots*
Hits
Bandwidth
Last visit

Googlebot
24+19
1.31 MB
29 Feb 2008 – 09:27

Yahoo Slurp
19+11
952.55 KB
26 Feb 2008 – 01:35

Unknown robot (identified by hit on ‘robots.txt’)
0+27
834.95 KB
29 Feb 2008 – 09:30

Unknown robot (identified by ‘bot/’ or ‘bot-’)
6+6
366.56 KB
25 Feb 2008 – 01:20

The web archive (IA Archiver)
0+7
220.30 KB
28 Feb 2008 – 14:55

Alexa (IA Archiver)
3+3
189.31 KB
13 Feb 2008 – 05:12

* Robots shown here gave hits or traffic “not viewed” …

Niche Site 4 Tools For Ghost Hunters (Sitemap)
(Dynamic Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: None yet
Pages indexed in Google: (as of 02/29/2008) 0
Created BANS site on 02/26/2008
Submitted dynamic sitemap to Google’s WebMaster Tools on 02/28/2008
Costs: $7.15 total
$7.15 +/- domain name at GoDaddy
Earnings: $0 total (As of 02/29/2008)
Timeline: First spider on 02/28/2008

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1 different robots*
Hits
Bandwidth
Last visit

Googlebot
4+1
7.19 KB
28 Feb 2008 – 14:33

Rochelle

Wow – am I falling behind or what? Actually… the answer is a big NO! I wanted to slow down a little… and give you all a bit more time to get your stores running! OK, we know that’s just plain BS… I fell behind! :-)
So… What DID I do for the past couple days? First and foremost, I took my second siteto the point that it is done for a week or two as the indexing begins! I don’t know how many of you sat through the 41 minute …

Well, I’ve jumped all over the place this week because I get bored doing too much of one thing – I haven’t concentrated on one site at a time (like Mark said to do) OOPS!  But…I have put up 7 sites this week with main categories and pages, keywords, etc. I have not put much work into the content or articles – that is one of my goals today.
Niche Site 1: Buy Crib Bedding 
Cost:  $7.50 for domain name; $15 for inbound links
Earnings: 
Submitted to: USFreeAds, Directory Submitter and paid someone $15 for …

 Just started site today 02/27/08 bought domain from godaddy, uploaded all site info into hostgator,changed some of the mains,put in public sitemap mod and xml.sitemap added to my google acct. got 10 inbound links submitted (not fun)
cost $7.15 for domain 
site http://www.buy-a-bike.com  ( sitemap )
earned $0.00

Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25)   –   Full list   –   Last visit
 

3 different robots*
Hits
Bandwidth
Last visit

Googlebot
4+2
47.12 KB
27 Feb 2008 – 19:27

Unknown robot (identified by hit on ‘robots.txt’)
0+1
28.12 KB
27 Feb 2008 – 19:18

Yahoo Slurp
1
0
27 Feb 2008 – 17:15

Niche Site 1 Chainsaw Deals (Chainsaw Deals Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 2/27/08
Costs : $33.00 total
$11.00 domain name (I don’t want my personal info out there!)
$22.00 outsourced articles
Earnings: $0.00
Notes: Submitted 6 pages to Kaboodle and 2 pages to Clipmarks
Timeline:

2/21/08 – Domain purchased
2/25/08 – Googlebot came a-callin’ (best I can figure is that setting up a Google Alert, per Rochelle’s recommendation, was the cause of this because I had done no link-building at that point)
2/27/08 – unknown bot came to visit
2/27/08 3:30pm – 1st …

OK… Kind of a weird post title, but you will learn it was for good reason.
In general, I watch very little TV… I mean, I will catch a bit of news or anything that has to do with building something (Modern Marvels, etc) BUT… there are two things I generally wont miss. Sunday afternoon football or NASCAR (for the 4 hour Sunday nap), AND for some reason, I actually like American Idol! Yup.. 42 years old, and I absolutely get into seeing what may be our future Pop Stars.
I am NOT a touchy-feely kind …

The title is somewhat misleading, it should say… “Watch ME add a New Niche Store in an Hour!” :-) Really, the video is 41 minutes long… I take it from looking into my kitchen last week and thinking of a niche, to the store being active in a very broad niche! This site is going to be one of the unique ones you want to watch from start to finish!
Comments ALWAYS welcome!

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the day off… It is quite a long story that will be featured in its own post very soon. I learned a lesson though… when it is suggested that you protect your Wordpress install by closing all security loopholes, listen! If you run a wordpress blog, visit Matt Cutts (GoogleGuy) blog and read his post about the best way secure your blog.
I spent all day Saturday recording a video of installing a new Build a Niche Store site from scratch! OK, by scratch, I mean… you …