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How long does it take for Google to see Changes to a site?
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Hi,
I have a low PR site (PR 1) that I am starting to work on. Ingeneral when you make changes to my site how long would it take Google to recognize and index those changes?
The reason I am wondering is because the site I am working on had a lot of duplicate content (around 700 pages), I got rid of it all, but I wasn't sure how long it would take Google to spider all these pages and re-index them since the site is low PR.
Thanks,
Ken
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Ive started a new blog from scratch with optimized content and it's only taken 5 days to be indexed (on a 1 yr old site). That time will shorten in the future with more posting consistency for most any site. As for the former 700 page website, I'd guess that Google would learn to trust, say, a new website faster than it would trust a website that it had learned not to trust due to duplicate content. Im still a novice.
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Hi Ken,
That really depends on the website and how often it is updated. If it is a site that is updated often, Google increases that rate at which it crawls your website.
The easiest thing to do, presuming you have a webmaster tools account set up for the website, is to submit the site to Google's index.
To do this, go to webmaster tools:
- In the left hand menu select 'Diagnostics'
- Then click on 'fetch as googlebot'
- Click 'Fetch' toward the top of the screen (This will fetch your homepage)
- After a few seconds the fetch status column will change to 'Success'
- Next to this column you will have the option to 'Submit to index'
- You will then have the choice of either submitting this URL or this URL and all linked pages
- Select the latter and click submit
This should speed up your indexing!
Hope this helps.
Elias
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