How long takes to a page show up in Google results after removing noindex from a page?
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Hi folks,
A client of mine created a new page and used meta robots noindex to not show the page while they are not ready to launch it. The problem is that somehow Google "crawled" the page and now, after removing the meta robots noindex, the page does not show up in the results.
We've tried to crawl it using Fetch as Googlebot, and then submit it using the button that appears. We've included the page in sitemap.xml and also used the old Google submit new page URL https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
Does anyone know how long will it take for Google to show the page AFTER removing meta robots noindex from the page? Any reliable references of the statement? I did not find any Google video/post about this.
I know that in some days it will appear but I'd like to have a good reference for the future.
Thanks.
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Just to let you know that the page was indexed in less than 24hrs. We didn't use Tony's tiip (share on G+) but we did all the following:
- Used GWT tool - fetch as googlebot
- Submit the URL using the button that appears after fetching as googlebot
- Included some sidewide links to the page
- Included the page in our sitemap.xml
Thanks all folks who added some insights and tips!
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Thanks for the tip Tony! We didn't try this yet.
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Depends on the site, if the site is Microsoft.com with a link from the home page, you can expect it to appear same day.
If its on boringoldsite.com then it could take a week or more.
But mostly a few days -
You can do two things in Google Webmaster tools to identify how long it will take for a page to index or even speed up the process of re indexation:
- Use Google's crawl rate and indexation reports
2) google tools fetch as googlebot
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Hi Fabio,
Share the page in question on G+. Indexation of G+ posts (including links) can be as quick as 1/2 hour. Also make sure the website is linked to from the clients main G+ profile as a custom link.
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We had a sub domain website (very small... four or five pages) that was blocked via the robots.txt file for two or three years. When we decided to have it indexed I did just what you did; fetch via GWT and clicked the button to add it to the index. This worked and then the next day... or maybe two days later, it was gone. I did this a couple of times...
It didn't hit the index and stick for two weeks. But since then everything has been just fine.
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One of my competitors had a designer put a new look on their website. As soon as they uploaded it we went to the site to sniff the code. We saw that the developer left the "noindex" on all of the files. We laughed and laughed about that. Within a few days their entire site dropped out of search and it took them a couple weeks to figure out what happened while we enjoyed a big increase in sales. But, when they uploaded the site with the noindex removed, within a few days the pages were mostly back in search and two weeks later they were back to normal.
The amount of time required is influenced by the amount of spider action received by the site. If your site has low PageRank and does not receive a lot of spider action you can go much longer without being reindexed. Deep pages on a site without much spider action can take weeks to come back. The site in the example above is a PR6 site with mostly PR3 and PR4 pages.
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