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I recently submitted my site to google, having already a few links to the site from other websites. At first, I saw that my index-file was cached by google very quickly (after search for keywords), although searching for my url did not produce any results yet. I also found that a lot of other search engines (like euroseek and yahoo) had the same cached index file available.
After a couple of days, my site completely disappeared from all the search engines. Can anyone tell me if this is the normal procedure (maybe, hopefully :-) ), before getting crawled? Or do I really need to worry? My site uses dynamically created pages (osCommerce).
Any other tips or comments on getting listed in a right way are also more than welcome.
Thanks for your help!
Chris
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What you may be seeing is the "Everflux" effect that takes place.
If you have quality inbound links, and Google knows about your site, then I would NOT worry too much.
Personally I like to give at least 2 updates from Google finding a site to being completely indexed and in the SERPS.
enjoy the board, and feel free to ask as we do not bite (well I dont, cant comment on some of the others)
Shak
Welcome to WebmasterWorld!
Yes, this is normal. If your site is less than a month old, but you have some incoming links from sites that Google already knows about, then you can expect to be deep-crawled sometime in the next few days - The deep-crawl usually follows or even overlaps the final stages of the monthly update.
If your site is deep-crawled over the next few days, then it will appear "permanently" in the Google search results at the beginning of next month.
Google's freshbot may come by every few days and spider your site, leading to its appearing temporarily in Google's search results. But unless you are fresh-crawled very frequently, your site will disappear and reappear based on the fresh-bot crawl schedule. The fresh-bot - nicknamed "minty" - is currently an experimental thing at Google.
Take a look in the WebmasterWorld library (link above) for the Google Knowledgebase, or try a site search for "everflux", "fresh bot", and related topics.
Jim
Webmasterworld is really amazing, I am sure to spend here a lot of days surfing al the posts. So much can be found here, for a newbie a little too much :-), therefore I appreciate your help of guiding me in the right direction.
Regards,
Chris
