Google quicker with external links than internal

[member22]

I had an internal page with no external links. I just received an external links and within 72 hours my ranking moved up. Then I created some internal links to see if it would move up but 8 days later I still see no change ...

It seems to me to google is " quick " at seeing external links but " slow " at seeing internal links.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced what I am currently experiencing...

[tedster]

Internal links don't impact rankings nearly as much as external links do - I'd say that's a big part of what you're noticing.

[member22]

I agree with you but I think the reason might also be the fact that my pages ( with the changes ) have not been index yet.

[tedster]

Well, you don't usually need to theorize about that. You can check the crawling directly in your server logs and check the indexing in Google's cached page - although the cached page date can lag behind the actual updating sometimes.

If it's a new page, just enter the URL in the search box to see if it has been indexed or not. Also note, Google may crawl a page but decide not to include it in the index.