GoogleBot Crawl Frequency

What's a likely lag time for Google to crawl new title tags?

[SamNiccolls]

About 3 days ago I made changes to the 50 most trafficked pages on my website. Specifically, I changed the title tags and meta descriptions to better describe the contents of those 50 pages.

There's obviously going to be a lag time before Google crawls and registers these changes, but I was wondering if anybody had a concept of just how long this might take? Each of these pages are included among the 100,000 or so pages in my sitemap.

What's a reasonable period of time to expect this to take? Days? Weeks? Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[tangor]

Could be hours.

Google crawls me REPEATEDLY day and night. How soon it appears in the SERPS is something else, usually 48 hours. Then again, I don't add that many pages daily, nor do I update current pages that often. Your mileage may vary.

[SamNiccolls]

So you're saying it's entirely possible that Google has already crawled the pages, yet they haven't showed up in the SERPs yet. Got it.

I'll keep an eye out, but thanks for the quick response.

[tangor]

Just don't expect a quick response from Google... believe it or not Y or MS will be there first (aggressive).

Just give it time. You created the mousetrap, they will come...

[wilderness]

SamNiccolls,
There's simply no rule-of-thumb in these issues.
It's simply a matter of being in the right-place at the right-time.

I've expereinced Google spidering new pages within hours and then included the page in SERP's within a day or two. One the other hand, I've had google not crawl pages for weeks and take months to include in SERPS.

Another has mentioned that SERPS in Yahoo and MSN appear much faster than Google, which I see frequently.

Don

[Samizdata]

If I understand the question correctly this is about pages that are already indexed but have had their Title and Description tags changed - search engines can be very sensitive about such things and I would expect a significant delay (at least a week, possibly much longer) after spidering for the changes to be reflected in the SERPs.

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