Site reverted back to old index date

[weela]

Hi,

I have a relatively new site that got indexed the first time around May 1st, the serps showed new dates 4thth/6thth of May or similar every few days after that all the way up until May 25th. Then sometime last week I noticed the main page reverted back to may 11th and hasn’t updated since

Has anyone ever seen this? and any ideas on why?

[bekyed]

Hi,

Being a brand new site, it will always pop in and out of the index. Yes google will index sites very quickly but until you have links to your site and gain some greenstuff (pagerank)the website will not be stable and will sometimes not be updated so regulary. Get some inbound links into your site from sites with at least pr3 or pr4, but please remember new websites can take months to be indexed properly in google.
Patience is the game, stick with it.

Bek

[weela]

I think you missed my point. I'm still indexed and getting decent traffic actually, my question was about the last indexed (refresh) date dropping back allmost 10 days.

[your_store]

Yes, your probem has been happening a lot over the last couple of months. I don't rememmber it being much of a problem before then, but that might be a case of selective memory.

Google will eventually have your most up to date page full time in the index. It's just a matter of waiting.

Added: It seems the problem is in full gear today. I'm seeing pages reverting to 2-3 revisions back which equates to at least three weeks old. This on pages that are crawled daily.

[kaled]

I believe this is normal. New/updated pages are bodged into the index, sometimes in a few hours, but they may not stick for several weeks.

We used to talk about everflux and monthly dances. Well officially, dances are more or less over, but I'm not really sure if everflux is officially dead or not. However, whether it is or is not, new/updated pages may not stick immediately.

Kaled.

[atlrus]

I got the same problem-one of my websites is showing old index - from about 2 weeks ago, and my website dropped 10 positions down.
I hope it will be back soon.

[Stefan]

Totally normal for a new site/page.

If the page has a decent PR, then it will get looked at regularly after it's moved into the deeper part of the index. Right now, it's just a freshbot listing.

(And, yeah, I know that there are no freshbot/deepbot crawls as such anymore, but things still work somewhat the same anyway... until the page is solid in the index, the serp/cache will flux in and out).

[Sharper]

Have you considered that you may be viewing different indexes when you see the difference? There is more than one data center out there, you know.... :)

[atlrus]

yeah,yeah. Google is messing with the websites.
My website was #19 for a 3,000,000+ keyword, the index page was 19k for a week now, and Google had it indexed as 19k, but today it shows my index as 12k, the cache is the one I had a week or so ago, and I am #32.

And I have had this website for almost an year now.

Plus when I checked the logs from yesterday - Googlebot crawled my index page and showed 19k of content in the log, but it still displays 12k in the results.