Complete Site Re-Index in Hours

[DXL]

I recently launched a redesign of a website with 20 new pages. PR3 homepage, about 1,400 inbound links, on the web since the 90's but with no prior optimization.

Within a few hours, Google had indexed every page of the entire website, and the results were all showing up in the SERPs. I have never seen a site re-indexed so quickly, what factor played the biggest part in this happening in a matter of hours?

[dusky]

I've seen this happen with one of my sites, I think it's the combination of age and quality inbound links in addition to the redesign. Chances are you had some problems with it, well, googlebot probably had and you resolved that problem with the new design. I remember doing so and unintentionally fixed a problem I did not think I had. If if it's a total redesign without changing page URLs, titles and descriptions (including the meta part of them) and the linking structure is the same or improved somehow, my guess is to expect good tidings!

[g1smd]

It is also possible that you happened to upload just before Google's scheduled crawl of your site, and you hit it lucky.

[Wlauzon]

We have a technical discussion forum that is seperate from our main site, and I have seen posts in there indexed and show up in search results in less than 15 minutes.

Which makes me wonder what criteria Google uses to figure our often to index a site.