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[azs]

I'm waiting for Google to spider the new version of a site I'm working on. It's been several weeks since I uploaded the changes and they have yet to index the revised pages. I noticed that the site in question has a ".com' address and a ".net" address, the later of which forwards to the former.

Could this be getting in the way of Google's ability to index the site? How long do you generally have to wait for Google to index new pages? Does it matter that as of now, only the site's homepage is generating page rank?

[Jill]

It can take a few months for Google to index new sites and new pages. Do you have outside links pointing to it? That will speed things up a bit, but the inner pages can take awhile.

Try not to think about it for a few months and simply build up some directory listings, and the like, while you're waiting.

Jill

[fred]

Hi

It can take a few months for Google to index new sites and new pages.

once it took google 3 months to index changes on a site that was there for a while.

Keep waiting and get some incoming links

[azs]

If Google has already indexed the homepage - which includes a site map - why would it take longer tor the internal pages to become indexed? I would think when the homepage got indexed - so do the rest (especially with a site map).

[powerofeyes]

As madam Jill from highranking says. Patience is a virtue. Now the google dance is going on and if you would have generated some 10 quality links then there is a high chance for google to find your site,
if you feel it is already too late to get your site into this indexing please generate good quality links before the next google dance somewhere in the middle of next month,
thanks,
vijay

[Jill]

Now the google dance is going on

It is?

[Cygnus]

It is?

I honestly believe the Google dance no longer exists; it looks more like rolling updates are more the norm now...someone yell at me if I'm way off base, but that's what GoogleGuy on WebmasterWorld was saying would happen anyhow.

Cygnus

[powerofeyes]

Hello Jill,
I verified in www.google-dance-tool.com and some more sites which gives the results of different datacenters and I can see difference in rankings in different datacentres,
That is a clear indication of google indexing,
VIJAY

[Cygnus]

Hello Jill,
I verified in www.google-dance-tool.com and some more sites which gives the results of different datacenters and I can see difference in rankings in different datacentres,
That is a clear indication of google indexing,
VIJAY

That doesn't mean it's dancing though; different data on the various centers is normal. Another good "dance" site for you to check is http://dance.efactory.de/, which states the dances are dead.

[powerofeyes]

Hello Cygnus,
Did you check the no of results in the top 3 data centers(www2,www3,www) for any of your optimized sites. It differs for all my client sites,
So let me put this way google is indexing not dancing
VIJAY

[polarmate]

Call it what you want but the fact remains that backlinks were updated in the last week. That in any case was the primary reason for 'the googel dance.' Rankings changed during this time because the PR which is based on backlinks was recalculated.

[Cygnus]

Call it what you want but the fact remains that backlinks were updated in the last week. That in any case was the primary reason for 'the googel dance.' Rankings changed during this time because the PR which is based on backlinks was recalculated.

Backlinks were not updated across the board last week. They may have been updated on your site, and some sites in your industry, but not across the board...unless for some strange reason Google decided to neglect the financial services industry (the only one I really follow closely).

Cygnus

[Cygnus]

Hello Cygnus,
        Did you check the no of results in the top 3 data centers(www2,www3,www) for any of your optimized sites. It differs for all my client sites,
So let me put this way google is indexing not dancing 
VIJAY

Thank you for that link. While I probably won't use it to determine whether any sort of dance is going on, it's nice to compare datacenter results simultaneously.

To answer your question though, the set of keywords I monitor did not have backlink updates, nor did the positioning change much over the past few days. If dancing still exists, it's happening in clusters.

My analogy for this: the dance used to take place in the entire ballroom; now it might just be table to table.

Cygnus

[Scottie]

Vijay-

When the Googlebot crawls your site and stores the information it finds in the database, that is indexing.

When they update the database, it used to be once a month and was called the Google dance in the SEO world because rankings went up and down across the datacenters.

These days, they have a rolling update and although it seems there is some monthly updating, it's not nearly as impactful as it used to be and it's not across the board.

[polarmate]

They were updated for sites in the industries/categories that I follow. So I am not talking of just my sites.

This thread at WMW (where GoogleGuy posts) : http://www.webmaster...orum3/17180.htm might interest you.