***Update: The Googlebot has ringtonerevue. It looks like it cached the site less then 3 hours after posting this link on the blog. “This is G o o g l e’s cache of http://www.ringtonerevue.com/ as retrieved on 9 May 2007 05:03:55 GMT.” The post was set to GMT time as well “ This entry was posted on Wednesday 9. May 2007 at 03:27.”

It looks like Yahoo Slurp also got the page, just a little bit later then Google:

So there you have it. One link is enough to get a site indexed. Not that there is much content or any test of how far they will go into a site, but proof enough that all you need is one good link to get your site discovered in the search engines.***

So, this post is going to be a little bit different then the normal post. This post is to test just how long it takes Google to follow a link from a decently indexed, currently pagerank 5 blog. RingtoneRevue.com is a ringtone site I plan to develop at some point. The domain was registered on 7/9/2006 but I haven’t done anything with it. There are no links that I know of and the site wasn’t pointing to anything. A few days ago, I decided to set it live and put up a basic index.html.

So far, no visits from the Googlebot or any other bot, except for Alexa (IA Archiver) which came today. Pretty interesting, considering that I do not have the alexa toolbar installed. Lets see how long it takes for this post to trigger some Googlebot love and get a new site in the index. To that effect, a silly short paragraph will commense.

Ringtones are lots of fun. I really like listening to my special ringer. It makes lots of special musical tones that bring me joy. It is my special ring tone.

So there it is, unabashed SEO linking to a new site. Googlebot, I call thee over that way. Go forth and index my young bot friend. May you find the limited content appealing enough to add to your vast treasures of pages. I promise more will be there soon.