Once every week, you’ll want to check the progress of your blog getting indexed in the search engines. If the number of pages indexed are growing, then your traffic from the search engines will start to increase as well.

One free tool you can use to check your site with is UpTimeBot. Just type in your domain name and you will get a summary of results from Google, Yahoo, MSN (the big 3) and other smaller search engines like AlltheWeb, AltaVista, HotBot, Teoma, Lycos, AOL as well as Alexa rankings.

For example, when I type in ‘moneymakingblogs.com’ I see the following results for indexed pages:

Google: 110
Yahoo: 4
MSN: 8

One thing I’m not sure about is the accuracy of the results for MSN. I did a manual check at MSN using ’site:moneymakingblogs.com’ and it actually shows 44 indexed pages. I did the same thing for Google and Yahoo and the results matched. So only MSN is showing more pages indexed than what UpTimeBot tells me.

By the way, the tool also shows you the number of backlinks that you have.

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