When starting out checking up on this daily seeing if Google, Yahoo or MSN cached the pages linking out and then watching if/when they showed up in the SERPs. The result was quite a roller coaster ride. One day the test pages would be cached and the next day the cache date was from several days prior.
This happened frequently. The same thing with the SERPs. One day all the test pages would show up and the next day gone and then the next day just some of the test pages showed up and the next others, but not necessarily the ones from the previous day. It was interesting to watch.
After about several weeks of daily monitoring trying start to cut back to every few days, then weekly; then, you'll kind of forgot about it with the occasional thought "Hey, I wonder how that test is going", in which take a quick look and forget all about it again. Here we are now, over a year later and I think you can confidently display the results as definitive.
This happened frequently. The same thing with the SERPs. One day all the test pages would show up and the next day gone and then the next day just some of the test pages showed up and the next others, but not necessarily the ones from the previous day. It was interesting to watch.
After about several weeks of daily monitoring trying start to cut back to every few days, then weekly; then, you'll kind of forgot about it with the occasional thought "Hey, I wonder how that test is going", in which take a quick look and forget all about it again. Here we are now, over a year later and I think you can confidently display the results as definitive.
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