Ok. I’ve started a little experiment. Knowing what I know about SEO (not a ton, but some), I’m wondering if I can capture some kind of SEO-based randomly descent placement in google’s results. Here’s the plan: I capture google “trends” terms every hour. Then, I pipe those terms through all kinds of news sites and extract the top hits via yahoo pipes. I grab the RSS results from the pipe and create a web page using those results. So, I have popular queries, good-ish content, and do all of the things right (as far as I know) to get them indexed as fast as possible (still not great at that). However, the site is chock full of content. Sitemap is updated hourly and downloaded by google every 24 hours (trying to get faster fetching than that), and google’s crawler is hitting my site every 2 seconds almost all day long fetching new links and pages. Pages have titles, keywords and should be very seo-friendly overall. It’s been about 2 weeks since I started the project and it is really interesting watching google index my site and rank them accordingly. I think that 2 weeks is not enough time to say one way or the other how good the experiment is going since the pages don’t actually enter google’s real index for about 4 weeks. I’ll post more when things get interesting. :) The site: http://xis.cc

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