Google indexing speed

BFCTom

BFCTom

BFCTom

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Hi,

Is the quickness Google adds your site to their listings a show of how optimised for search engines you have made it?

I just made a new page on my site, then did a quick search (site: mysite.com) and was shocked to see the new page their within 9 minutes! I also tried to search the title of the specific page and it was listed on page two for that also.

Have I been doing things right or is this some sort of fluke?

:p
 
I've always wondered how this works. If you search for a new OcUK thread title it's usually there pretty quickly which I find quite interesting.
 
Depends how Googlebot visits yoursite really. For OcUK it must be very often as new threads are in the main index with an hour.

Is this brand new site you have?
 
It's not a new site no, been up since July-ish.

I was just really surprised at how quickly it did it tbh. I know OcUK gets new threads on there really fast, but my site is no where near on the content scale of these forums.
 
Well the Googlebot does adjust to how often your site is updated.

But I'm sure they've also added capactity to their pool of "bots".
 
Typically speaking crawl rate is proportional to page rank (basically how many links you have to your website).

Could just be lucky that it decided to visit your site when it did though!
 
ArmyofHarmony said:
Typically speaking crawl rate is proportional to page rank (basically how many links you have to your website).

Could just be lucky that it decided to visit your site when it did though!
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I'm not sure that page rank is such a huge factor. My newish wordpress blog as no page rank yet (not tried to link build or anything yet) but gets indexed by Google quite quickly - when it's fast the new posts appear in Google within a couple of days.

The OCuK forums sub domain is only a page rank 4 too.

EDIT: resubmitted sitemap last night containing my new blog post I wrote last night and it in Google right now. E.g. Google link http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...+google+analytics"&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=
 
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