WordPress post indexation speed
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Has anyone noticed any increases in the length of time it takes for WP posts to get indexed by Google?
I have a website with the following:
domain.com - CMS with lots of pages/content
blog.domain.com - subdomain for the blog using WP
It's odd.. the pages on the main site are indexed almost immediately. The posts on the blog are taking between 2-5 days.
The blog posts are all unique content, here's an example of a recent one:
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Excellent, glad you have a sitemap. Sorry I didn't look at the robots.txt for the sitemap to begin with.
So in looking at your sitemap I can't help but pay attention to your post frequency/or lack there of. In addition to the newness of the URL, just over three months.
I always feel that post frequency plays a major role in how quickly your site is indexed, so if your updating the blog every 2-3 days you can expect a quicker indexation time. Especially if you do this for a long period of time.
In your case I see some pretty long times in between posts. They average out to about 12 days between posts. Even though recently you've posted more frequently, you haven't really set a precedent to warrant Google coming back every two to three days.
I realize that dedicating resources to write content can be tough, but if you want faster indexation I have to recommend that you increase the post frequency.
Hope That Helps!
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The author tag should already be in there. It shows up when you use the tester tool: http://sht.tl/xGAw
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The sitemaps are listed in the robots.txt file: blog.looksfishy.co.uk/robots.txt
They are also submitted to GWT. When I add a new post, the urls show up as being submitted but they dont get indexed
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Hi Edward
I have not noticed any slow down in the speed of Google indexing Wordpress sites, the point from Paul about adding a blog sitemap is a good one, also ensure you submit it to webmaster tools.
I do not know if it will speed up the indexation times but it would not hurt to have the author attribution connected to a Google + account, it is another signal that the content is important to the blogger.
I hope this helps
Sean
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Hey Edward, at first glance I don't see anything extremely out of place in your WordPress implementation. However I did notice that you have a sitemap on your main site, but not on on the blog. I've found my new pages always get indexed faster when using a sitemap that is submitted to Webmaster tools. Possibly the addition of a sitemap to the blog would help.
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