weird google behaviour...

what's going on with the spidering?

[irock]

I've moved my site to a new IP under the same DNS last Sunday (oct 6), and asked the host to propagate the new IP.

On the very same day, my new IP site has some program problems, but surprisingly, Google (216.239.xxxx) dropped by and grabbed the content from the new IP site, which is full of PHP errors.

On the following Monday, I saw some of my google cache listings containing the same error from the new IP site. So, I thought Google must have refreshed their DNS database; otherwise, they wouldn't be able to find out about my new IP.

Anyhow, I waited all week long for Google to come to my new IP, but nothing. Yesterday (oct 12), Google freshed the cache and show my old IP site content. Google apparently went back to my old IP and to do daily content freshing spidering.

Will Google ever come back to my new IP? Any experts know?

Thanks in advance.

[Sasquatch]

That was a freshbot crawl. Your new site popped up for a couple of days, then it goes back to the old index till the next update or you keep updating your content for when the freshbot comes back (fixing your php errors would give you some nice new content). You should be fine in a couple of updates.

The IP addresses that are quoted for freshbot/deepcrawl are only mostly accurate. They can assign any of their servers to whatever task they want, the differences quoted are only trends.

[irock]

Hmm... So, is this month's deepcrawl over already?

[Sasquatch]

My site was pretty much done last weekend. I don't know if it's still crawling the big sites or going back and crawling sites that had problems.

But what you described was the way that fresh crawls work.

[allanp73]

During the fresh crawl my ranking jumped to #7 later it went to the #11 spot. Does this mean that after next month's update my site will be ranked #7? If so then the fresh crawler is useful for predicting the next month's ranking. Do people use it this way?