How many spiderings before getting a ranking?

It seems once is not enough!

[ewordsmith]

I have noticed that new pages recently spidered by G get only a white bar even though they justify a ranking based upon where they site in a site. I get the impression G wants to see they are stable and have been present for a while before it gives them their ranking. Is this a fact? If so, how long does it take? Is this a time factor, or is it based on the number of times it is spidered?

[johnser]

>>>get only a white bar

Google needs to update its PageRank for all sites before you go green. Normally happens within 2-3 weeks assuming you have a couple of PR4/5 links

>>>is it based on the number of times it is spidered?

Nope - normally once you have been visited by Freshbot, you'll then get spidered on every page by Deepbot which is due any day now.

Work on getting a few decent PR4 links to your site and check again in 2 weeks. You'll be pleasantly surprised :)
J

[steveb]

Pagerank calculation is based on the total number of links to a page. Getting spidered the first time is due to a single link that Google follows. These have nothing to do with each other, beyond once you are crawled the first time then Google knows it needs to get onto the job of calculating your pagerank.

You'll show pagerank from two to eight weeks after you get crawled.

[ewordsmith]

To clarify, I already have PR8 and one of the new pages is linked from that page. So I guess I have to wait 2-8 weeks to see it ranked then. Other pages at this level are PR7.

[steveb]

If when you say "ranked" you mean "pageranked" then yes. if you mean the search results that's completely different.

In terms of pagerank, that page will likely show a PR7 sometime in the next two months, probably a three or four weeks from now.