There was a thread involving this a while ago but I want to bring it up again now that this service has been around for a little bit and see if people feel differently now. Has anybody seen increased traffic to their sites, better indexing, or any other benefits of this service? I know it's in BETA and Google specifically states that participating has no effect on PageRank or position in search results but I'm not seeing any changes for my domains at all. I have quite a few domains that have now been signed up for months. I see that Google downloads my sitemaps every few hours or so but my logs are not showing the Googlebot visiting any more frequently, regardless of how often my feed says I update my pages. It also appears that I don't have any more pages in their index than I did before participating despite the fact that they appear on my sitemap.
Anybody else have a similar experience?
-Mike