Has Google changed its Algorithm for New Pages?

Has anyone noticed?

[guddu]

Hi,

I have been noticing that after the March update, google has changed the policy a bit. It crawls the website and takes the new pages, but only the URL of the new pages for the first time. Then, after 1 or 2 more crawls, it takes the title and meta tags. Then only the webpages start appearing on the keywords. (Please note, I am not talking about a new website)

(Prior to March, this has not been my experience with Google. Every time the pages used to be updated along with title and meta tags.)

Has anyone else noticed the same.

Has google really changed its policies or is just me to misunderstand that?

Regards

guddu

[swerve]

This has been my experience with 2 new sites launched in the past few months. Update #1: just url Update #2: Title and snippets. Two sites is not a very large sample size, but for what its worth...

[takagi]

Google will show only the URL if Google knows about the URL, but didn't spider it (yet). It cannot display the Title/snippet/cache unless it spiders it, or finds the information somewhere else. A nice example of the last case was mentioned by GG in msg#8 and msg#10 of this [webmasterworld.com] thread were the robots.txt prevented Google from spidering the page, but DMOZ had a link and Title.

In the summer of 2000 Google had 1,060,000,000 paged indexed. But 500 million were not spidered. Now the percentage of spidered pages is much higher. But still it is possible to see an not (yet) spidered page in the SERP.

[swerve]

Thanks, Tagaki, but this is understood. The question in this thread relates to whether there is a pattern, in which links to new sites are not spidered during the first update in which they are encountered (and thus only the URL shows in search results).

[guddu]

Thanks takagi. But swerve is right. What I wanted to ask is this going to happen continuously, as this would mean a delay in rankings. For us SEOs, this is an important fact to be known.

Regards

Guddu

[WebGuerrilla]

It's too early to say for sure, but I've been seeing some things that would indicate that Google might be taking a bit more of a cautious approach to brand new content.

Things will be a bit more clear after the next update.

[guddu]

Thanks WebGuerrilla

Keeping my fingers crossed until next crawl.

Regards

Guddu