Google indexing slowly?

Getting kicked by MSN search

[great_9]

My sister has started writing a blog. It's a high-quality tips-for-women kind of blog. :-)

MSN search added her blog in it's index today, but google didn't. Is this the current practice on google? Since the blog is linked from a number of sites with good PR, the site is hosted on google's blogspot, adsense team has apporved her application and etc.

What is going on at google?

[tedster]

What is going on at google?

Well, new sites can have a tough time showing up for quite a while these days, and being involved with one "arm" of Google holds no guarantee that Google organic search will take notice or hand out rewards.

Best bet is just go ahead with the blog as if Google didn't exist and then one day be happy when traffic jumps. I have some commercial clients who have decided to do just that with a new site, and they are now profitable with no Google traffic at all.

[thecityofgold2005]

The past couple of weeks I have noticed that my sitemap downloads has slowed down (maybe once per 2 days rather than many times per day).

I have also notice that my Google cache in 23 September, also very old by Google's historical standards with my site.

Any ideas?

I would say that an update is imminent but we've had much too much of that already on these forums.

[europeforvisitors]

New sites: See the many "sandbox" threads.

Existing sites: Google can be very quick to index new pages. On my own site, I'm continuing to see new pages show up in the SERPs within a day or two if they've got links from the home page or other pages that get crawled daily. For example, page 1 of an article that's featured on the home page may be indexed in 24 hours, while pages 2, 3, 4, etc. may take a week or more to find their way into the SERPs.

[Beachboy]

I currently find MSN search to be faster to index and providing more relevant search results than Google, at least for one class of client I have. Now it's a matter of MSN doing the marketing to change user habits.

[europeforvisitors]

I currently find MSN search to be faster to index and providing more relevant search results than Google, at least for one class of client I have.

I wouldn't go that far, but I have noticed that both MSN and Yahoo are now indexing new pages a lot more quickly than they were in the past. (I published a new article on Friday that was already in MSN and Yahoo Search when I checked just a moment ago. That came as a pleasant surprise.)

[SEOPutte]

I see my sites get crawled and fully indexed faster in both MSN and Yahoo.

[stuartc1]

Im running a test right now, In fact I started last night....

I uploaded a page to one site, and linked to it from 3 sites. Today I found that MSN had found all the links and had them listed (took less than 12 hours) it's also coming up number 2 for my test search string. At this rate I'm expecting MSN to have the actual test page listed in a few days (and hopefully find it number one). But I suspect it could take weeks or months for google to index the page.

Hopefully things will start to get better at google!

[robotsdobetter]

I'm finding that MSN visits more often, but Google is indexing more web pages. So far this month Yahoo is at the top, Google next and MSN last. MSN has never been at the top, almost always last. This stats comes from over 15 web sites I own, also none of them link to each other.

[stuartc1]

I take it all back. My test page and phrase has came in number one on google in less than 48 hours. And still only the referal page is number 2 on msn. Nowhere to be seen on yahoo.

This simple test shows that MSN finds stuff fast, then gets lazy. Google takes at least 24 hours before it'll show in the index... and yahoo is off playing golf somewhere :)

Im actually surprised that this page would appear in google so fast. I have new hope for google after all.

[ssjxxx]

It seemed that Google had completely forgotten about one of my sites over the last couple of weeks. But finally Googlebot came back to me today. :)

66.249.64.35 - - [07/Oct/2005:00:00:00 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2227 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

Yay!

[mindaugas]

I totally agree.. "yahoo is off playing golf somewhere :) "

Besides, last couple days google indexed new site - totally 29,000+ pages. After this I don't think that Google indexes sites slowly..

[great_9]

Now yahoo has put the blog in it's index. Google still sucks at this point.

[phpdude]

Is it in the Google Blog search?
[blogsearch.google.com...]

I think blogs mixed with search results should of been nixed a long time ago.

Hopefully, Google pulls all the blog listings out of the main search and will only feature them in the blog search.