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Day 2 – Building a Website with WordPress

On Day 1 of launching our new WordPress website, we made sure we had at least 10 posts in the queue and got our first inbound link. Today, on Day 2 of the site being live… we first want to check if the link did any good at all, and of course, add some more content!

Identifying the Spider Visits

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As you can see from my cPanel this morning – Spider activity is in full gear! The 3 main spiders I want to index the site are:

  1. Googlebot
  2. Yahoo Slurp
  3. MSNBot 

There are several references to unknown spiders in the report as well, these are keyword spy, domain spiders, and others that really have no impact on search engines. I will monitor these for the amount bandwidth they use and if they get too busy, I may start blocking their IP’s in the blacklist within cPanel.

If I saw no activity in this area today, its really no reason to panic as the site is still very new… but I would put a bit of extra effort into social bookmarking, to give the site more exposure to the web. As of this post, I have found 48 indexed page in G, but none in Y or MSN.

Creating a New Content Post

You will soon find that the new post is a trend that will continue almost EVERY SINGLE DAY! Monday through Friday, I will be adding a new post every day! Yesterday afternoon, I added a post about DIY Home Insulation for the colder season coming up… After the post was live on the site, I visited my bookmarking utility and made sure there it was listed in my online bookmarks.

No Need to Rush!

One other thing you will find about this 30 day series… I am NOT rushing anything! I am not going to post 20 new articles every day… and I am not going to go crazy finding links or monetizing this new website. The one thing every search likes to see is slow and steady growth in a new website. As I write this post every day, you may find there are some days I do nothing but write a post and bookmark it. Don’t get yourself in a hurry on your new site – take your time and do it right!

What other things do you do in the first week of a site launch?

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About the Author, Mark Hansen

has written 573 article(s) at the Niche Store Builder site.

I have been doing my part to "Build the Internet" since 1994, when I built my first website! Since then, I have built hundreds of niche websites for myself and many others, focused on design, applications, ecommerce, search optimization and internet marketing. 

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  • John Treby said:

    I may be a bit dumb here but what do you mean by -I do nothing but write a post and bookmark it. What or where do you bookmark it-I should know what you mean-do you mean join up with the rss feed of your own blog?Sorry to ask such a simple but stupid question

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    # 11 October 2008 at 8:55 pm
  • wasboard abs blog said:

    Hi John,

    Take a quick at the day one post, Mark mentions an excellent service called Overwire. Once you have signed up free, you can download the wordpress plugin which is a bookmarklet, upload to your wordpress plugins and start book marking your sites. The instructions on the site are very easy to follow.

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    # 12 October 2008 at 12:20 am
  • Flatten your tummy said:

    How do you find out the unknown robot ips and start blocking their IP’s in the blacklist within cPanel?

    thanks

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    # 12 October 2008 at 6:25 am
  • John Treby said:

    @ Washboard
    Thank you for your help-much appreciated,do you have the site link by any chance-searching on google but not hitting the correct site-only if you have time-thanks again

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    # 12 October 2008 at 8:29 am
  • Hot six pack blog said:

    Hi John

    Sorry John, I made a mistake on the site title it was very late, the site link you need is http://www.onlywire.com/

    Dave

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    # 12 October 2008 at 9:46 am
  • G B SINGH said:

    Hey Mark,

    Can we submit our post by clicking on “All-in-one Bookmarking Button” under our own post and submitting the same from SocialMarker.com when it takes us there?

    Or should we not?

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    # 12 October 2008 at 11:50 am
  • Mark (author) said:

    GB – You are fine bookmarking your own post, that is the purpose of the service.

    Bookmarking it on multiple avenues that add to the same account is not needed though, you will be charged with spamming! :-)

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    # 12 October 2008 at 1:51 pm
  • Mike said:

    Hi Mark…Love your site, been very informative. Question please…how does one get to the cpanel page where you can see that info.

    Thanks,
    Mike

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    # 13 October 2008 at 3:31 pm
  • Paul said:

    Where in CPanel do I view the spider visits?

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    # 26 October 2008 at 4:51 pm