Dating Services Most Favored By Google (Or Best Marketed?)
I would like to carry out another test with selected dating sites – my plan is to check how many pages indexed by Google and how many incoming links Google displays for each particular site.
This info is to show how good those dating services are at online marketing and search engine optimization.
As a result, we will see Google most saturated dating sites. It is another metric to evaluate general performance of online dating services. Websites with 100 000 indexed pages are likely to do better than those with 1000. Google will not crawl insignificant (from his bot’s point of view) sites that deep and much.
When it comes to incoming links I should mention that Google does not display all links with his command link:www.site.com So, the stats do not reflects all dating service incoming links, but part of them.
I will do this test with general dating services that as we know from our previous researches are much more trafficked than specialty services.
|
Dating Site |
Indexed Pages |
Inbound Links |
|
316 000 |
2 920 |
|
|
87 |
9 |
|
|
158 000 |
507 |
|
|
14 700 |
712 |
|
|
304 |
172 |
|
|
73 500 |
3 |
|
|
355 |
27 |
|
|
5 870 000 |
128 |
|
|
519 |
523 |
|
|
241 000 |
43 |
|
|
1 300 000 |
484 |
|
|
56 000 |
1070 |
It is not the first time we see that search engines data is not as reliable as we would like it to be. One test shows us that certain dating services are on top, another test conducted in the same search engine proves that completely different services should be doing great with search engines. Though with our today’s test it is quite possible that numerous pages are protected from bot crawling for privacy issues.
What data are reliable? I think the data that the dating services get using their in-house web analytics systems. The data that no outsider can get access to…