How long does Google take to re-cache a site?
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Specifically, I just redesigned my site. I'm reading Danny Dovers book, and learned about checking the cache version of the site to see what google is REALLY seeing . . .
. . . which evidently is my old site.
Obviously, my sites not going to make any real progress with SEO as long as the site is out of date. It says it last checked the site on 5/5 and I launched the site on 5/9.
Obviously, it does not do these things immediately, but anyone have any ideas on how long it should take before google starts to show me some love?
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Okay Damon, email sent.
I would maybe edit your message above, to remove your email. I know seomoz is more secured against spam bots than most forums due to being a subscription based membership, but even so it may be safer for you anti-spam wise, to not leave it in plain text, but obviously your choice there
"Freebies are good . . ." - Well, when you spend so promoting websites for money, it is nice to sometimes help just for the sake of helping, and publishing your release won't cost me any money, or much time - so glad to help out. I like seomoz Q & A forums, it has a much stronger atmosphere of collaboration than most other webmaster or seo forums I have been on over the years, so I am happy to try to 'do my bit' as I know in the future, I will undoubtedlybe asking, and receivingadvice from others! - what goes around, comes around...
Cheers Damon!
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Thanks! I would like to take you up on that if the release is up to snuff. I'm a little green at all this (Kermit's got nothing on me!).
Freebies are good . . .
Sleep tight!
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I have used this site before and the approval wasn't too long: http://www.information-online.com/ - They also allowed an anchored backlink, which is nice, but they appear NOT to be Google news approved.
Then I found this little list for you, but check on Google news approval if you want fast indexing (go to news.google.com, and search using the site: operator, so like: site:web-address-of-pr-sitehere.com
free-press-release.com
bignews.biz
prlog.org
live-<acronym title="Google PageRank">pr</acronym>.com
<acronym title="Google PageRank">pr</acronym>-usa.net
theopenpress.com
information-online.com
freepressrelease.com
freepressindex.com
ideamarketers.comThese guys seem to offer a free service, but maybe not with links (not sure, maybe they do allow links for free!) and they say they are Google enws approved (seem to be): http://www.prfrog.co.uk/free-press-release.html
We do also own a Google news approved PR site ourselves, so I could always do you a freebie with a link back to you if that helps
Don't worry, not trying to sell you anything, just let me know if you want one published for free (would have to be well written, by you, though!).
I am off to sleep now, but will check in tomorrow to see if you want a freebie. If not, have a bash with a couple of the ones from the list above, however these were just found via a quick Google search mainly, so I canot vouch for any of them.
Hope that helps!
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Kingpin, love the press release idea (hits two birds with one stone! Backlinks AND re-crawl).
Writing a release ought to be easy. Any suggestions on google approved press release sites?
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How long it takes to re cache is really pretty directly related to how long it is until it re-crawls the site/pages.
Like Ryan said, have you linked/confirmed the site with Webmaster Tools? You should be able to see crawl stats there.
In fact, if you have added the site, submitting an XML sitemap via your webmaster tools account like Ryan mentioned would be good, but also...
As you have redesigned the site recently, how are your writing skills?
If you can string a few paragraphs together coherently, then consider writing a press release about the site's redesign. You can find info on how to write a press release via a Google search, but basically keep it pretty professional sounding, have an intro paragraph that explains in a few words (2/3 sentances) what they whole piece is about, and finish off with an 'About [company name] section, including a link back to your site.
If you can spend an hour doing that, then submit it to 1 or 2 free press release sites (make sure they are Google news approved) and Google will find/crawl the link to your nice, newly designed site pretty quick, which should help to expediate the re-caching somewhat.
Hope that helps (please excuse any typos, its late here, and I need another coffee!)
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Have you submitted a sitemap for the new site and do you have the site attached to Google Webmaster Tools? You should have more insight into crawling if you do so.
In the meantime you can use a text browser like the one here: http://www.seo-browser.com/ or at http://whois.domaintools.com/ or here: http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/se-spider.html to get an idea of what a spirder sees.
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