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I have 3 sites that have been live for 2-3 months now. I have many PR 5/PR 6 site pointing to them and they are hosted on seperate class A IP addresses. The index page has been indexed by googlebot but neve spidered yet? (And no PR showing up on toolbar yet.)
Is any of this normal? Is there any "normalcy" with this type of thing? Also, this is my first experience google dance...that time of the month...kind of exciting yet nervous feeling. Wait a minute, "Do I have anything to be nervous about?" Especially since I've only had my index pages gobbled up?
The index page has been indexed by googlebot but neve spidered yet?
Somebody help me out here. What is the difference between "spidered" and "indexed"? How do you make out a page has been spidered or indexed? Does something in the log tell you that?
Indexing is the process of including the page into the SERPs. Therefore, being indexed is actually being included in the Search Engines results.
This is always a handy tool. [searchengineworld.com]
- Chad
I also thought the same. But I do not understand how a page not yet spidered, can still be indexed. I thought spidering is the 1st step, indexing is the next. How does the bot gets the page so that the indexer can index it?
This is what I meant to say:
My index.cfm page has been spidered and indexed. However, the rest of my site has NOT been spidered (and thus, can't ne indexed ;) . That's what I'd like to know...how long to get complete site spidered.
You're not using funky javascript or other wierdness to generate your menus are you? (dropdowns?)
No, I'm not using any weird Javascript drop down menus. I do use JavaScript but include the Javascript as an external file, src="something.js"
I use W3C's Link and HTML checker...not sure what to do next.
Do you require cookies to get past the main page?
I'm guessing from your original comment that you haven't seen googlebot picking up any of your other pages, right?
edit: I couldn't find any incoming links to your site, how did it get picked up?
