Scoble visiting the Plex

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Scoble visiting the Plex

Robert Scoble is visiting the plex tomorrow (okay, today at this point. I lost this post and need to get the Wordpress autosave functionality going). What should I ask Robert?

Aha, looks like he's got a question for me about the Windows Live Writer blog. Without doing any actual debugging (I'm not on the VPN), I noticed:

- a query for [windowslivewriter] returns pages from the site, so we do have some pages from the site in our index.
- but the site is pretty brand-new (only one post on the blog so far, dated Aug. 11, but it didn't get traction on Techmeme until Aug. 14th).
- the title of the blog is "Writer Zone," which is a little generic. If you want to show up for a query like [windows live writer], having that in the page title certainly could help.
- doing the query [site:windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com] returns some urls like windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!174.entry . In general, urls like that sometimes look like session IDs to search engines. Most bloggy sites tend to have words from the title of a post in the url; having keywords from the post title in the url also can help search engines judge the quality of a page.

Ah, but I can hear people saying that spaces.msn.com also had urls like "ericlam.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!5D73BE0B4076E647!330.entry" and spaces.msn.com has lots of indexed urls. That brings up the whole subject that spaces.msn.com has been migrating to spaces.live.com. I know that was a pretty big change for the Spaces folks. Anytime we know about big changes like that across the web, we want to help make sure that the changes go smoothly. I know I got over 12 emails from GregP over at Microsoft about the progress of the migration from spaces.msn.com to spaces.live.com, and I checked with the indexing folks at Google to ask about how long it might take to crawl sites over at spaces.msn.com and see that they'd moved over to spaces.live.com. So there's a chance that it might be something related to the hostload or the amount of new pages we can crawl over at spaces.live.com. Anyway, I'll dig into it more tomorrow.

Let me know if there's anything that you want me to ask Scoble. Smile

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