Time to get new domain indexed

much faster than expected

[kittykat]

Hi, everyone

I had been under the impression that it takes several weeks for a new domain to get listed in the google index.

However, i just put up on Feb. 3 a new site, with a new domain, and it is already in the google index. I have a link from another PR5 site to this new site.

Although this new site does not yet have any pagerank, it is turning up No. 1 for my keywords.

Is this a new phenonemon?

How long has it taken people to see their new sites show up in index?

[TeofenGL]

we have seen one other pretty much inexplicable success like what you describe, but also have a domain that could not get into the index for 18 months...

[Yidaki]

That's the "fresh bot give away". The PR 5 page that links to you prob gets crawled frequently by the fresh bot. So your site was found and listed quick. Be happy! You can expect to see your site dropping down in the next days and weeks ... you need to hunt more links to stay on top. ;)

[gmoney]

I recently had this happen as well for a site I was working on. Googlebot came and grabbed only the home page and within a couple of days Google was giving the site referrals.

I think the reason why sites are ranked high after the freshbot birth into the index is that maybe all the PageRank from the links to the site is concentrated on the home page. Later, after Googlebot indexes the other pages, then the PageRank will be more distributed around the pages and thus rankings may drop. It is just a hunch.

[Brett_Tabke]

Freshbot is the best thing to happen at Google in several years. It works great for sites, as well as keeping those results minty fresh.

I found something I was looking for a couple days ago that was just 5 hours old.

[GoogleGuy]

Yah, I love our fresh crawl together with Google News. It's a one-two combination to get up-to-date info.

If you really stop and think about it, the perception of search engines has really changed in the last few years. Search engines used to take *months* to update. Nowadays webmasters get really angry after only weeks. ;) Seriously though, I'm glad that Google is so minty fresh these days.

[Jesse_Smith]

On about the 14th of January I put up a new site, over 500 files, and on the next day, BANG, almost all of them were listed. Now if only fresh bot links stayed listed, then all of us would be even happier!

:::Search engines used to take *months* to update.

Not all of them! Back in 1996, submit URLs to Altavista, and bang, next day they were listed. When Infoseek was first made you could 'watch' the page get added. Submit it and bang, it was added right then! Now those are the days that I miss! They all seem to take a lot longer to get listed now than way back then, unless your a ODP or Zeal editor yourself. :D

[edited by: Jesse_Smith at 5:29 am (utc) on Feb. 7, 2003]

[Krapulator]

IM BLOODY ANGRY!

I put a new page up half an hour ago and its still not in Google!

Cmon google - get your act together.

[skibum]

Just had a new site grabbed by freshbot, showed up in the index with a full white bar, was being revisited regularly and then vanished completely from the index....

Maybe next time it'll stick.....

[Hoople]

LOL Krapulator

[WindSun]

".. put a new page up half an hour ago and its still not in Google!"

Think that is funny?

We got a new domain name that became availble. We purchased it Thursday morning, it propagated to the test website at around 2 PM. At 2:13 PM we got a Google hit.

The odd thing about it is that we had never submitted the site. I wonder if it got the URL from the Google toolbar we have installed?

[Albaba]

I hate freshbot :)
make me insane when my position drop by other site :).
and force my eyes to watch it every day :)