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Subject: Web search on Google
Category: Computers
Asked by: thedoo-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 05 Nov 2002 14:59 PST
Expires: 05 Dec 2002 14:59 PST
Question ID: 99779
When I search my website information on Google, I am still getting
outdated web pages.  I have submitted my new site to Google over a
month ago but it has not changed.  How can I effectively update Google
so someone searching for me or my website will get the appropriate
pages.  There has to be more than submitting my site, I have already
done that.  What else?
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Subject: Re: Web search on Google
Answered By: aditya2k-ga on 06 Nov 2002 08:28 PST
 
Hi thedoo,

Good day and thanks for your question.

Google updates its index approximately once every month. The only
sites that are updated on a day to day basis are sites whose contents
change frequently (e.g. news sites)

Re-submitting won't speed up the process. You don't have to worry.
Wait until the next index, and your new site will be listed.

From the Google Webmaster's FAQ :
Q) Do I need to submit updated and/or outdated links and pages to
Google?
A) Google updates its index frequently, so there's no need to submit
updated or outdated links. We should pick up any changes to your site
during our next crawl.
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#outdated

Alternatively, if you've submitted a new domain name, it could take
upto months for it to get listed. The more popular site yours is (i.e.
no of incoming links) the lesser it will take to get listed.

Q) How long does the Google robot take to index a URL once it's been
submitted?
A) Depending on the timing of the submission and of our crawl, the
entire process can take between six and eight weeks.
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#delay

If you have any clarifications, then please don't hesitate to ask.

Warm regards,
Aditya2K
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Subject: Re: Web search on Google
From: rahga_-ga on 06 Nov 2002 00:07 PST
 
First of all, it's nothing personal. Google visits some sites daily,
or even several times a day. Some sites can go for months without
seeing Google update information about their content. Google
prioritizes it's search results primarily by looking at how many pages
link to your website. If several thousand websites were to link
directly to your website, Google would probably give at least a few
visits a month. That's the way it works for all of us. Re-submitting a
URL won't really help.... After all, if you have to submit a URL in
the first place, that means nobody is linking to your site, and you
aren't even on Google's relevancy radar screen nor the daily update
list.

On the bright side, an election day in the US just passed, and while I
could be wrong, I think my logs indicate that google's bots love days
that surround an election.

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