Find out what the engines think are your most important pages
This is an easy one – it’s not perfect, but it will give you a fairly good idea of which pages on your site have the most “juice” with each of the engines. Use the query format – site:yourdomain.com inurl:www (sorry folks who don’t use the www). Here’s some examples:
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aseomoz.org+inurl%3Awww (I note that this matches up almost exactly with the data webmaster central gives me for pages with the most links)
- http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Aseomoz.org+inurl%3Awww – Yahoo! has a bit of a different opinion (but still looks very relevant)
- http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=site%3Aseomoz.org+www – at Live.com, they don’t allow the “inurl” operator, so you can just use “www” which may skew things a bit, but you’re still likely to see many of the most important pages first
This can be very useful for figuring out where your high link juice pages are and re-directing some of the goodness over to places that need it.
How to Get Google & Yahoo! to Spider Your Site More Quickly
These “tips” have both been around for a few months, but they’re still not common knowledge, so it pays to have them here.
Google – set up AdSense units on every page you want indexed. Googlebot has to come by anyway to check that you’re following the rules, and thus you’re often spidered more quickly. Heard from a little bird that the AdSense trick doesn’t work, but that installing Custom Site Search may…
Yahoo! – install Yahoo! site search on your domain and Yahoo! promises they’ll make short work of indexing your domain. It seemed like a dirty trick until a Yahoo! engineer told a crowd at a search convention that it’s public knowledge and not, in his opinion, corrupt or spammy.
Want to Become a Top Digg User?
Go see what Tamar (Barry Schwartz’s “sidekick”) is doing on Digg. She posts a few dozen stories a day from major media outlets – stories that got popular on Reddit, stories that were popular on CNN, stories that made the top of Yahoo! or Google News or had success in the blogosphere. She’s a smart cookie when it comes to getting to the top of Digg, and with 76 friends already in the system, anything she digs is getting 10+ votes, and a high percentage go to the top of the site.
Yes, now you too can become one of the top Diggers – and be wooed away by Calcanis and his ilk 
