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Will site page published 2003-03-20 be indexed by 2003-05-07?

How long does it take?

         

g1smd

2:31 am on Mar 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have a friend who has published a "bare bones" web page about an event that occurs on 2003-05-07. On that date, the page will have a live web cam, picture highlights, and all sorts of other information. At the moment, the page just contains text about what is going to happen. On the day, many people will be looking for information about this event, so it would be nice if it were indexed in Google. The question is, will this page, published today, be indexed in time, by 2003-05-07, or is it too late? How long does it take to get indexed? Many of the other pages of this site are already indexed for several years, so Google only has to notice the extra page and scan it.

Jesse_Smith

2:46 am on May 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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:::The 16556 figure was just for page views (I assume) and was from 2003-05-07 00:00 UTC until 2003-05-07 24:00 UTC. It is also for just the first page of the site,

That's unique visits, with some visiting more than once! If you had the number count more than one file then it would of been page views. That is VERY good for one day!

BigDave

5:01 am on May 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Congratulations! for such short work your results were astonomical ;)

g1smd

11:36 am on May 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Boom boom. Heh heh,

Yeah, the count was for page views of index.html only. So that is also counting visits. It used an external counter, so ignored requests for other pages, favicon.ico, and other such stuff. However, some people who clicked through to the next page, very quickly, may not have been counted.

Hmm, in the last few minutes the site has gained a 07 May 2003 dated fresh tag, and the Google cache now shows a page dated 2003-05-07 04:40 UTC. That cached page was replaced on site by a newer page, only about 3 or 4 hours later. So Google must have visited during that short space of time.

Still in the top 5 places for just about anything that I type in.

Interest has now waned, with just 1200 visitors yesterday, and so far, just over half way through today, it has barely reached 175 visitors. This decline is pretty much as expected.

g1smd

6:30 pm on May 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Still in, but now without fresh tags. Probably soon going to drop out until the next update.

g1smd

10:08 am on May 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

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No! Still listed. On www a newer version is now in the cache and the reported file size has increased to show the latest one; but there is no fresh tag on this fresh listing.

Still showing very old result in -sj, www2, etc, and other results in the other datacentres.

g1smd

8:59 pm on May 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Now fresh tagged as 11 May 2003, even though site contents has not changed, but dropped from #1 to #3, with the top two positions being occupied by two pages from another site which also has 11 May 2003 tags.

g1smd

12:19 am on May 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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No longer fresh tagged, but still in. No content changes made for the last 6 days. Awaiting the next update (any day now?) to see if the listing really does "stick".

Also still on -sj with an early April page doing OK.

g1smd

6:39 pm on May 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Site contents have still not been changed since 2003-05-07, but listing has been fresh tagged yet again on www; has been showing 13 May 2003 all day. Site moved back up from #3 to #1 as well.

Noticed that -sj still carries cached version from over a month ago now, no fresh listings have been applied on that datacentre since then at all.

Jesse_Smith

12:11 am on May 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Your going to be listed until about two months after you take your site down or ban it with the robot file. Google has no idea that it's a one day event site.

g1smd

5:14 pm on May 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Users will want to browse the results and images forever, so the site will stay up. On the day, people wanted to see events live, now they just come back for the image gallery.

Well the answer to the question, was, yep, it was listed on the day; but more by luck than judgement perhaps. Perhaps this thread can be used to show what happens to a new listing on Google; maybe it will show how almost random it all seems to begin with.

Still getting wacky results in all the various datacentres:

In -sj, and -fi there are still the pages cached from early April.

New in -cw is a fresh listing for 14 May 2003, today.

The other datacentres at -va, -ab, -in, -dc, -ex, and -zu simply show the same results as can be obtained at www, as before.

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