I honestly welcome anyone trying to punch holes in my assumptions. the goal here is to learn something, not to establish myself as someone who doesn’t make mistakes. Look at my Google spidering request post. It is based on a fundamentally wrong premise and I wouldn’t have learned this unless I wrote about it.

@Will: the point of the post is the SPEED at which Google indexes the site after Sphinn submission, not the indexing itself.

My posts show up in Google indexes immediately.. sometimes so fast it almost scares me.. I’ve posted an article, read it it over, decided I needed to punch it up, gone to Google to search for related stuff and found my own article minutes after posting it!

Well my blog is just at the beginning. It will take a while until I get to 14-15 submissions to Sphinn and by that time I assume it will accumulate some link love. But you are right about the need to see it happen several times in order to call it a phenomena.

>>>IMHO, if you have sites taking months to get indexed, there’s a problem with the root site.

I don’t know. It could be other things. Maybe the WordPress platform together with sphinning gave it indexing priority. BTW, Google is now pulling my category and archive pages which were not sphinned, so it seems to be speeding up the deep-site indexing as well.

>>>>I will admit that I didn’t Sphinn this story. The whole “did it get indexed in an hour” is moot, because simply being indexed doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme. It’s no different than blog and ping or any other “shortcut to being indexed” – it does you no good in the end, because you need links to rank and with links, you’ll get indexed anyway.

First of all kudos for not sphinning something you did not think was worthy. I have started contributing only recently but have been reading since the very beginning of sphinn and the amount of unworthy votes is absolutely disappointing. For example the recent story of Google adding more site links has been sphunn through 3-4 different stories. And each time it got 14-15 sphinns, so people are voting just because the submitter is popular or whatever. I appreciate these discussions much more.

Regarding the links, there is nothing we disagree on here. In the great scheme of things this is probably not the most crucial thing, however I believe in small pieces of puzzle which may not be important right now but can be very helpful to someone sometimes down the line.

How many times in a row did it do it? If you submitted 14 articles to Sphinn and it did it 13 out of 14, I’d put some weight i that theory. But, because this is one instance, its very possible that it was happenstance… you may have just submitted at the very right time.

>>>If you know of other sites that would cause that kind of effect, I would be more than happy to hear

I’ve had the experience with Digg and numerous other sites. My own site is pounded pretty hard and whether or not a post of mine gets submitted to any site, it’s indexed within a few hours. Same goes for my boyfriends blog, that he hardly ever writes in and has little “authority”. IMHO, if you have sites taking months to get indexed, there’s a problem with the root site. The problem is NOT being indexed within a day or two… it’s not “out of this world” that Sphinn would GET you indexed within a day or two (or a few hours).

I will admit that I didn’t Sphinn this story. The whole “did it get indexed in an hour” is moot, because simply being indexed doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme. It’s no different than blog and ping or any other “shortcut to being indexed” – it does you no good in the end, because you need links to rank and with links, you’ll get indexed anyway.