2003-06-20
Domain metacollection.com connected.
2003-06-22
Added content - links, descriptions, ranking charts.
2003-06-22
Added links to MetaCollection at three partner websites (PageRank 5 and 4).
2003-06-22
Site submitted to DMOZ, Zeal, Yahoo, GoGuides.Org, and several CGI/PHP related link directories (cost free submissions).
2003-06-22
Site got accepted by DMOZ - it took only 4 hours.
2003-06-22
Site got accepted by the first CGI script directory. More directories follow the next days and weeks.
2003-06-23
Applied for Google AdSense and got rejected based on their Terms and Conditions - whatever that means ;-)
2003-06-23
The quite unknown Baiduspider hits the homepage including the CSS file. Tries to find out something by opening the CSS file with altered file name (random upper and lower characters). The Baiduspider becomes a regular visitor for the homepage.
2003-06-24
Site got accepted by Zeal Directory.
2003-06-25
ia_archiver from Alexa crawls only the homepage.
2003-06-26
Googlebot appears the first time and crawls only the homepage.
2003-06-26
LookSmart adopts Zeal listing.
2003-06-26
MSN adopts LookSmart listing.
2003-06-27
Googlebot visits homepage the second time.
2003-06-28
Alexa does a full crawl.
2003-06-28
Googlebot crawls the hole website.
2003-06-29
Homepage is listed in Google. Googlebot becomes a regular visitor and crawls parts of the site every two or three days.
2003-07-01
Wisenutbot visits the homepage.
2003-07-01
Site submitted to several search engines (except Google).
2003-07-02
Inktomi visits the homepage and crawls the hole website on the next day.
2003-07-04
Ask Jeeves/Teoma bot crawls the hole website.
2003-07-04
Inktomi bot requests "http://www.metacollection.com/;". Probably it tries to figure out how the 404 error looks like.
2003-07-04
Site submitted to JoeAnt.com.
2003-07-05
Homepage is listed in Inktomi.
2003-07-05
Site accepted by JoeAnt.com.
2003-07-09
Site accepted by GoGuides.Com
2003-07-10
Altavista's Scooter visits the homepage and lists the site.
2003-07-22
Fast-Webcrawler hits the robots.txt
2003-07-23
Fast-Webcrawler visits the homepage.
2003-08-01
Fast-Webcrawler crawls the rest of the website.
2003-09-01
After the Google update the homepage has now PageRank 6.
2003-09-03
Re-applied for Google AdSense and got accepted.
