Time Lag from Googlebot visit

How long before results appear?

[readforum]

Hi there

I have recently had my book co website transferred to xcart and increased the number of books I stock as well as the info about each book.

Both MSN and Google spidered the site on 29/30 Aug. Around 300 pages have appeared in MSN the next day, a good number at position 1. But only a few extra pages have appeared on Google. Question - how long do you think before G catches up with MSN (and stops doing me out of visitors I might hope for)?

Regards

Dilip

[g1smd]

For a site with new pages added a few weeks ago, the new pages spidered by Google appeared in the SERPs about only two or three days later.

For existing pages, I see the new cache, and new snippet, within about 18 to 24 hours. However, the cache and snippet usually don't change at the same instant!

[readforum]

Thanks for that. Has anybody any more suggestions? Good old google still hasn't advanced from the 23 pages it showed in August - despite the cache showing Sept 5!

Regards

[Wizard]

Google don't spider whole site. The depth is limited, depending on PageRank. If your site has PR 2 or smaller, Google may refuse to spider more than these twenty pages.

If you have better PR, there might be other kind of problem - links to new pages may be not crawlable for one reason or another.

[readforum]

Thanks for your message.

I am now feeling much happier becayse www.yourcache.com, which shows pages indexed at datacenters, is much improved. It still shows 24 in some places but 53 in most and 536 in at least 10! Doing a search for pages from the site gives the 53 figure.

So it's looking better.

Regards

[Wizard]

During this update a weird think occured: one of my sites, which currently has over 200 pages indexed, seemed to disappear in site: search - it returned none results found. At the same time, it was still #2 for its main keyphrase, so it was just a flux, not a penalty. Let's wait for the end of the update before counting how many pages we have indexed.