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Google is overhauling its search system ..
The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places
Kinda unfair no?
Blogs at blogs.google.com, news at news.google.com are indexed within minutes, not so with the standard google spider..Kinda unfair no?
Not really. Do you wait a week before linking to new pages or items on your domain?
As far as Google Universal Search goes, I haven't seen any effect so far, and I don't think the new SERP format will have much impact on the average publisher.
Not really. Do you wait a week before linking to new pages or items on your domain?As far as Google Universal Search goes, I haven't seen any effect so far, and I don't think the new SERP format will have much impact on the average publisher.
No, I do not. However, from the sounds of it, blogs and news will get instant indexing, whereas the average site content will continue its standard slow 2 week indexing. This was not a big deal when the results were not unified, but now they are.
I forsee SERP wars aplenty.
No, I do not. However, from the sounds of it, blogs and news will get instant indexing, whereas the average site content will continue its standard slow 2 week indexing. This was not a big deal when the results were not unified, but now they are.
Two weeks? In my experience, Google crawls and indexes new pages that are linked from the home page within 24-48 hours. Not that I really care: In the overall scheme of things, waiting a week or two isn't a big deal--unless you're running a news site, in which case you might want to read:
Google News: Help for Publishers
[google.com...]
In any case, this is the AdSense forum, so the real question is whether Google Universal Search will have a negative impact on AdSense publishers. I really don't think it will in most cases. Some site owners who get knocked off page 1 of Google's SERPs for [whatever] may lose some traffic, but other site owners will pick up the traffic that the knocked-off-page-1 site owners lose. As usual, it's a zero-sum game where the winners and losers may change but the total number of winners and losers remains the same.
Blog posts, which are often commenting on items in the news, should also be indexed as soon as possible.
If there is an improvement to be made, Google needs some method of weeding out the non-news sites that are posing as news sites.
FarmBoy
However, from what I see here, news and blogs (instantly indexed) will be shown when searching the google main page.
This means NOT JUST at news.google.com, or blogs.google.com, but also at google.com.
So you have worked hard to get your page at the top of the SERPS and with one post of a blog entry somewhere, or a news story somewhere, your page(s) get bumped right out, instantly.
I would not have a problem with it per say, if google indexed sites as quickly as they do blog pings or news feeds.
Perhaps if submitting your sitemap.xml file got google to index at the same pace as the other two, it would seem more fair.
Today I wrote an article, let's say the title was "Foo Title". After I posted I went to blogs.google.com and did a quoted search for "Foo Title" and there my article showed up on top as normal (sorting by date). Pretty quick, one minute.
Went to google.com with the same quoted search. Only one result and it was not mine. I waited about 15-20 minutes, and refreshed the search and what do you know, boom, I got top rank on the result.
So basically I knocked a guy down to second who had sole "pole" position on that particular search term.
Those who capitalize on this first will make some quick traffic IMHO and therefore more Adsense earnings..
