Umdum Update : Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN Indexing
It’s been a week since the launch of the Umdum Web Directory and Umdum would like to take the chance to thank all of those who have submitted their sites already and those who covered the launch.
We’ve been monitoring the indexing of Umdum by the major search engines and after Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com indexed us and our internal pages rather quickly, I can now honestly say:
“And on the 7th Day, Google indexed Umdum”
Yahoo was the first search engine to pick up the Umdum Directory, even before we launched or linked to it!
Additionally, Yahoo has also indexed our Umdum backlinks very quickly - much quicker than I imagined and with 13,500 backlinks (many of which I believe are from RSS syndication, but still - quite impressive!).
We could not be happier with the indexing and coverage to date and the response of webmasters and publishers looking to include their site in the Umdum “Humanity at Work” hand edited directory. Umdum loves you :)
Comments
8 responses so far ↓
John Scott on Apr 25, 2006 at 9:45 am
I don’t know, Loren. Google seems way slow these days. In the v7ndotcom contest, too, Google was days behind Yahoo.
Loren Baker, Editor on Apr 25, 2006 at 9:49 am
Is Google the Tortoise and the others the Hare?
Bruce Stone on Apr 25, 2006 at 12:43 pm
As soon as you feed Google enough quality content in your topics it they will be burning up your bandwidth. I normally don’t go public with a directory until I have a few thousand good sites listed for this reason.
John on Apr 25, 2006 at 1:13 pm
No way on this earth I would pay money to be indexed by Umdum. And as for the “we’re not evil” statement in the above image…I hope they are being sarcastic. If not, wow…no way…
John Scott on Apr 25, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Hi John,
What exactly is it about Umdum that you dislike?
Loren Baker, Editor on Apr 25, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Thank you for the feedback Stone. I appreciate it.
John : I’m also curious as to what you have against a site which has been up and running for a week?
Franck on Apr 26, 2006 at 3:30 am
How do you manage to have so many back links for a site which has been running for about a week? That’s very impressive!
John on Apr 26, 2006 at 9:18 am
JS - I think the pricing structure should be lower, until such a time as the site has analytics up that can definitively justify the $40 and $100 fees. Until such a time, a free submission option, with “strict guidelines and review” would welcome new sites more readily. As I am sure quality control is a strong focus, the free submission could be left open just to blogs and other leading edge property types to help build up an index that is leading edge in-of-itself.
LB - First, I love your work.
Please see the above. That being said, as you state it has been up for just a week, so hopefully any feedback provided will be carefully considered. It would be nice to see an about section (I could not find one). Now more than ever before, site owners are taking building their sites more seriously and are investing more equity in the process. I would not submit a property to an index that doesn’t allow me to get to know those behind the idea. Whether the submission is free or not, submitting a site is an investment. It’s an investment in “exposure” which can help to make or break a business. As far as the “evil thing”; we’ve seen how Google has been unable to live up to the “do not evil” mantra and rightfully so. It’s impossible to live up to something like that. First, evil is in the eyes of the beholder and secondly, capitalism and the trials and tribulations of growing a model will require decisions that at times, the majority may find as evil. From marketing as well as an ideological point of view, I don’t think it works. Differentiate, differentiate, differentiate.
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