9 replies to this topic

[JamesW]

Hey all

I recently revamped a web site of mine, adding more content.

Now whenver I check to see whether Google has indexed my pages I get varying results. One day, 13 pages will be indexed, then a few days later it will be back to 7, then back up to 18.

Has anyone else experienced this trend?

Cheers

James

[Uneek]

I noticed my website went back in time in google a week ago. They had my website up to date with the title etc. Next thing you know it has the old tattle of the website, now I have to wait till it updates it again.

[Randy]

Not lately James, but I haven't released a new site since the last update either.

How are you searching to see the numbers changing? I always use allinurl: because it seems to be the most accurate.

It's also possible that you may be seeing different datacenters each time you look, which will give you different numbers as the site is re-indexed. If that's the case, time will cure the problem once all of the DC's get sync'd with your additions.

[Grumpus]

I put up a site last week - the first site I've done in eons where I was the guy actually responsible for doing SEO on it. I'd forgotten how frustrating it is. In one minute, out the next, and so on. Even older sites with a bunch of new pages have the same kind of thing in there - new pages in, new pages gone, and so on.

I've always kept a little journal for stuff like this and checking back to the last site I did (Spring of 2003) my own SEO/SEM on and some older stuff, my notes and timeframes are pretty much identical. New stuff gets picked up and listed within 2 days for an existing site and 6 days for a brand new site. Pages vanish for a day or four, then come back. Things stabilize when the next update kicks in. (Should be one coming in a couple of weeks or so, if my math is correct).

Anyway, the point here is that this is all pretty nornal. I wouldn't worry. Sure it's frustrating, but - it's a heck of a lot better than it was even 18-20 months ago where it would take a month to find your site and another month to crawl and index it.

G.

[JamesW]

Hey all

Thanks for the replies.

I also use the allinurl: command to check which pages are indexed. And guess what? It's back down to 6. LOL.

I guess I'll just have to wait for that next update to kick-in Grumpus, or I may well end up kicking something in myself!

Cheers

James

[Grumpus]

lol - Yeah. I'll tell ya, I'd forgotten how frustrating it is. I give a lot of SEO advice (though it tends to be on the "mechanical" side of it all) and I design applications that are SE Friendly so the SEO Team can go in and make short work of optimizing the on-page elements of the site. For about a year, though, I've been distanced from the day-to-day woes of watching a new site trying to muscle its way out of obscurity.

I now find myself going through my posts here (and elsewhere) where my common theme in areas such as this is always "Patience, Patience, Patience" and I'm thinking, "Boy, what a head that Grumpus guy is!" even though I know I'm right.

Usually, I dread updates because the forums fill up with dozens of the same old "I've dropped out of Google!" and "What's Happening With Google???" posts where its the same old questions with the same old answers over and over. For the first time in a year, I'm actually looking forward to those posts because I know that that's when my new site will appear.

G.

[Jill]

And here I thought we were the only ones calling you a head, G!

[powerofeyes]

Recently I am seeing a lot of shakeups, Google suddenly goes to the old index, Some are of the SERPs not updated( one client site ranking for a different keyword with a fresh date and other keyword with the old title and page - seeing this for the past 6 days),
And one more thing Google has not updated some pages which it took from our client sites 2 weeks ago, It comes regularly takes those pages but many are not yet updated in the results,
I am not sure what is happening in google, Also I had not seen Backlinks update for a 2 to 3 weeks, Probably a minor update going on, that is what i got from the Google people, Recently I had a back and forth email transaction with google, these Google people are very quick to respond when we praise them,
My first mail was a spam report with a praise for google and their quality of results they responded for it in a week saying they had forwarded the site for their engineers to look, then I replied them talking about the excellent service they provide, within 1 hour I got a reply from them indicating my name and they are very happy about the feedback i gave on the recent update,
Again I replied them saying I want to see Google on top for atleast 2 more years, They replied sending me one google News letter URL telling me to join to get info on the updates I joined it, like this it went on for 3 to 4 mail transaction,
So from what I see these Google people are always checking the mails regularly but are responding only to positive feedbacks, It was fun talking to them,

VIJAY,

[Phil]

I agree, Suddenly my "old" pages seem to be the ones indexed and not even shown unless you look into 10-15 search pages of the results...Groan....

[JamesW]

Hey all

If Google worked perfectly, indexed your pages on a daily basis (guaranteed) and provided perfect results, what would we then moan about? The weather - oh sorry, I forgot, most of you won't even be able to do that!

Cheers

James (in freezing UK)