Friday, March 4th, 2005, 2:13 pm
Google Refresh Cycles
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ll webmasters show interest in the ranking of their sites. It is clear to very few, however, how the ‘Google clock’ functions. Answers to that are usually derived from experience.
According to Google’s information for webmasters, one might have to wait a month for a site to be indexed properly. PageRank (which directly affects traffic and search results) is updated/re-shuffled every 3-4 months according to a rumour at the SEO newsgroups. The rumour also says that the next PR update is in the beginning of April 2005.
A re-direct is said to be the safe solution to preservation of PageRank when moving between domains. Nonetheless, this may not work perfectly, not immediately anyway.
Google Suggest appears to have a long update cycle; Google Images likewise. I estimate it to be about 3-6 months.
March 12th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Despite what Google says (“one might have to wait a month for a site to be indexed properly”), the true fact is that with a litlle effort things can be set right in about only 3 days. I have put that on my domain
March 12th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
It all depends on the size of your site and the number of inbound links.
March 15th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
The size is not so big, just a starting blog and the links a few but good. In a post there I have argued how I think that Technorati tags might have helped. After my first post the googlebot was around in only 3h and it got in the index in around 2-3 days
March 16th, 2005 at 3:40 am
Razvan,
What I had in mind when I wrote this were sites that have deep hierarchical structures. Blogs are built as a series of items that are well inter-connected and are hence easy to crawl.