When Will Google Spider My Site?By Garnet R. ChaneyMany of my clients and friends who have websites will ask me "So how long will it take google to index my site?" Many of my friends, after hearing me talk about how I get hundreds of thousands of search engine hits, and how later I get lots of traffic from the search engines, wonder how they can benefit from this free traffic. It's a common question that I hear a lot. I saw a question on a forum where someone wondered why google had only indexed less than 1/3 of 1% of his site. In another thread, he commented about Google's merry and unpredictable path around the net as "one of the many ways Google can be gay" (which was quickly flamed by the diversity police.) I gave Blayne some clues from my experience: | Hi! It might be too early to worry. Google is often the last one to completely spider my sites. Teoma, Altavista, Inktomi, and others all get to my sites much faster, and gobble much more of them in their first visits. Google seems to first spider the home page, then a couple of weeks later it will get the pages mentioned on the home page. Then a couple of weeks later it will get the pages that were mentioned in the second set. And so on. Eventually, when google has travelled a lot of your pages, it'll start visiting to recheck the old pages, and you'll have a regular steady stream of google visits. - Garnet http://www.webfind.us |
Recently, I helped one of my clients reorganize his site into a 150 page information portal. Within a week he saw an improvement of his ranking and findability in the Yahoo search engine. It's taken a little longer for Google to visit his site, but during the last two months, his web traffic has been doubling each month. I taught him a number of techniques for improving the quality of the content that he adds to his site, and I am sure he'll continue to enjoy more and more web traffic to his site. Visit my free website promotion list for several dozen more ideas about how to promote your website.. | |
