How much time between changes and position update?

...or does "change and track" take a lifetime? :-)

[ahristov]

Hello everyone....

I've been reading this board for quite a while and I find it very instructive, andI have one question :

After you make some changes to a site and googlebot comes and reads them, how soon should you expect these changes to be reflected in the SERPs?

I ask because many people here write about making small changes and then tracking the results, from which I gather that there must be a relatively short timespan between the two events. Or maybe I'm wrong...

I've been in position #1-#3 for many years (without really trying) for several relatively competitive spanish keyphrases (some 350.000 results), until the Brandy update, which tossed me into the 70s or so, so I'm trying to recover...

Thanks in advance for any replies...

[zgb999]

It depends on what kind of changes you do.

A change on a page itself can be reflected within one day in SERPs.

New backlinks can take a month or more to be (fully) reflected in the SERPs.

[ThomasB]

backlinks count very fast these days imho. I have a site that was put online 2 weeks ago. I did some massive linkbuilding and can watch it climbing about 1 or 2 positions per day. And I didn't do any on-site changes.

[Sathish]

After you make some changes to a site and googlebot comes and reads them, how soon should you expect these changes to be reflected in the SERPs?

Exactly! it depends on the changes you do.

For example - I gave a link to an authority site in my category from one of my site and I my site came on top like a rocket in the SERPs. It depends.

If you had made changes to your entire site - changed internal link structure, page design, kw placement etc, then you will have to wait for a while for googlebot to deepcrawl your site and then your position in the SERP would automatically change but this would obviously take sometime.

But finally comes the backlinks. In the recent past google has been impressive (i mean a bit fast) in ranking your site as your backlinks increases.

IMO, I feel even your PR place a role in calculating the time span to notice changes in SERP's

[Sathish]

backlinks count very fast these days imho. I have a site that was put online 2 weeks ago. I did some massive linkbuilding and can watch it climbing about 1 or 2 positions per day. And I didn't do any on-site changes.

Yep! exactly what I ment.
But I still doubt google counts link-age...

[Jack_Hughes]

It seems to depend on the page too. sometimes pages are changed on the site & picked up in the serps within hours.

I renamed a page (to have a more keyword oriented name) and put a 301 in place and it took over ten days to get into the serps. brand new pages seem to get into the serps after a day or so after being indexed.

[zgb999]

Google got indeed fast in applying new backlinks to the SERPS but from what I see it is not giving the full value of a new backlink for some time.

[bether2]

but from what I see it is not giving the full value of a new backlink for some time.

That's what I'm seeing also. Page with new backlink moves up a little each day - not all at once.