Listed in Google in 36 hours?

15th April 2007

Sitting at a table in the bar after a recent SEMpdx meeting,  a member (Garry Egan) stated that he could get a site indexed by all three search engines in 36 hours, and even ranking for a non-competitive term or two.

While everyone at the table was sufficiently impressed, I already knew that this was possible and had done it myself, so I took it with a grain of salt.  Assuming the new site is properly structured, all you have to do is link to it from another site that is already getting spidered daily, and “bang” you’re going to be in the index.

However, Garry took it a step further by accepting my challenge that he do this without providing any inbound links to it from any other domain. I knew from experience that the site could be ignored for months if it wasn’t acknowledged from any other established websites.

I assumed that he was going to just create the site (Wordpress & Plug-ins) and submit an XML site map to Google, but he added in interesting twist with Google analytics, and even, (gasp) a manual site submission.

Even though he lost the beer bet of 36 hours, the site was up and running,  and currently ranking number one on Google for our chosen key phrase “Vegan pirate bar“.

I’m as impressed as anyone else, and can find no inbound links other than a del.icio.us tag. Nice job Garry!

Thanks also for outlining all the steps you took to  get listed in the search engines in 51 hours on your blog.  That’s very generous of you, and the next beer is on me!