This has happened to me twice. A prospect calls me to see if I can help with a site. I start googling various terms and the site to see the problem. In the first case a page that wasn't indexed is indexed. In another, a page that was ranking low is suddenly in #1 position. One prospect wanted to pay me! Is there something in Google's algorithm that "sees" search or email activity?
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Stupid Question. Maybe. Can Googling Cause Indexing?
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CathyS
, Apr 14 2010 07:00 PM
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Michael Martinez
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 01:02 AM
Google analyzes queries all the time. They have never admitted to using queries as a source for site discovery.
There are so many ways that a page can appear in Google's index that no one outside the company can really be sure what happened.
There are so many ways that a page can appear in Google's index that no one outside the company can really be sure what happened.
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 07:57 AM
It's more likely that the person calling for help has jumped the gun. They saw a strange result and panicked and thought they needed to hire someone to fix it rather than just wait a few days for it to sort itself out.
Most likely that's all you're seeing. Weird glitches in the search engines happen all the time. Waiting a few days or sometimes weeks usually makes things go back to normal.
Most likely that's all you're seeing. Weird glitches in the search engines happen all the time. Waiting a few days or sometimes weeks usually makes things go back to normal.
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 01:52 PM
QUOTE(Jill @ Apr 15 2010, 05:57 AM) 
It's more likely that the person calling for help has jumped the gun. They saw a strange result and panicked and thought they needed to hire someone to fix it rather than just wait a few days for it to sort itself out.
Most likely that's all you're seeing. Weird glitches in the search engines happen all the time. Waiting a few days or sometimes weeks usually makes things go back to normal.
Most likely that's all you're seeing. Weird glitches in the search engines happen all the time. Waiting a few days or sometimes weeks usually makes things go back to normal.
I think it is a coincidence ... though these two cases were instances where the pages had been having very low or non-existent rankings, not just for a day or two. But thanks!
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