Is google getting faster in all aspects?

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Is google getting faster in all aspects?

bcc1234

12:10 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just got two sites into the index withing 5 days. Small crappy sites, nothing to be proud of.

Also moved one site to another host and googlebot started hitting the new host in about 1 hour or so.

Is it just lucky me or is google getting faster at everything?

vitaplease

12:26 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Good for you.

I moved host 5 months ago.
For fear of googlebot missing the move, I was sweating it out.
Googlebot found it within a day.

Are others having the same experience in moving hosts?

Kirby

4:11 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

One of my sites which had been down for 6 months was indexed and assigned PR within a few days of going live again. I assume much of the speed in which google finds it has to do with the # of quality paths (links from good PR pages) one has to it the site. That and maybe some dumb luck.

<added> belated congratulations, Vitaplease</added>

markus007

4:53 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Moved my domain last night. Googlebot found the new site before my local ISP's DNS switched over.

GoogleGuy

5:40 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

I moved host 5 months ago.
For fear of googlebot missing the move, I was sweating it out.
Googlebot found it within a day.

We try to make it seamless and fast for people moving hosts. Glad it's worked well for folks. My rule of thumb is to bring both sites up on the two different IP addresses and then switch the DNS to the new IP address. After you see Googlebot visit the new IP address, you can probably take down the old site. Doesn't hurt to leave the old site up a bit longer, but you shouldn't need to worry about it.

markus007

8:10 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

GoogleGuy, Googlebot switched to the new site asap, but Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) is still pounding my old site.

optisoft

11:20 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Ive noticed freshbot has been freshtagging in unprecendented ammounts and picking up new domains within days. I love this game - months ago you had to brutally fight to get freshbot recognition, but now it is hard to get missed. However, many search engines have taken up the freshbot idea. I see a peak coming along any time now; where the only thing left to do, to improove results, is:
hire masses of minimum wage employees to manually filter out websites ( if they dont, i might )

BlueSky

11:58 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Does little Googlebot ever sleep? He reminds me of a very hyperactive child always on the go.

GoogleGuy, Googlebot switched to the new site asap, but Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) is still pounding my old site.

How did you switch over to the new site -- using redirects?

pleeker

12:06 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

We opened a 'new' site for a new client about a week ago, maybe 10 days ago. Same domain as they had with their old host, but hosted here now. Google still has the old site; new one hasn't been found yet. Admittedly, this is a site that freshbot would've tagged to ignore forever at the rate updates were made to the old site....

caine

12:10 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

never had a problem with hosts. i've just changed nameservers for a sight and it seems not to have any effect though the ISP is completly aware of my paranoia regarding things like that.

Tomas

12:24 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have a new domain. No links to it, it's very fresh. Just title and some text. I cannot imagine how, but I just checked logs and what I saw was couple whois inquiries and googlebot signature. It also already has PR0. Any ideas on how G picks up new domains?

markus007

12:27 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

I did a redirect for the members login page. The rest of the site (40,000 pages) is mirrored between the old and new server.

claus

1:27 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

>> it seamless and fast for people moving hosts

That's great :) one thing less to worry about.

How about changing domain names? That's a bit more complicated with backlinks pointing to the old domain and all that - i know the spider's pretty quick, but is it still around three-four weeks for everything to settle all the way to the SERPS?

Any recent experiences - within the last month or so?

/claus

shady

2:50 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

I am absolutely amazed!

I created links to a brand new site on the 20th (which contains 1500 subdomains which are not linked from the front page :-) ).

Googlebot looked at almost all of the subdomains on the 21st and has deep crawled on the 22nd.

A really strange phenominon (imo) is that it found the subdomains apparently without viewing the pages which link to them! How is this possible, any ideas?

Best regards
Shady

limitup

3:19 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just out of curiosity, why so many subdomains? In my experience subdomains and SEO don't fit well together...

claus

8:56 am on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

>> How is this possible, any ideas?

You can't really create an active subdomain or domain without telling the whole internet about it. Except for links(*), there's only one [google.com] way that googlebot can discover your new sub/domain ;)

If this is right, it's very cool. Only, it seems

robots.txt

should be the first thing on a domain now, i'm glad Googlebot respects it.

/claus

(*)and except for somebody submitting the URL's of course.