Comments on: Debugging Dean

By: طبيب

طبيب — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:19:39 +0000

Does Google crawl more often if the a website content keeps changing ?

By: JS

JS — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:48:41 +0000

Lol, Poor Dean, affected by the power of the Google search

By: mark

mark — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:36:32 +0000

Touch: It’s called a “Google Dance”…. this is when Google shuffles listings around when it updates it’s data.

So that means when your site moved up, it wasn’t really up. It just got moved until the sites that really was supposed to be up was updated.

By: Touch

Touch — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:55:31 +0000

My question is why, when a page drops, does it drop so much? I recently made no changes to one of my sites, but it fell from about 7th to somewhere on the 5th page of results. Since then, it’s bounced back, but it took a couple of weeks. I don’t understand why it fell in the first place, and why it came back, but especially why it fell so far…

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:35:45 +0000

LOL, I can just see it, the next generation of birthday gifts becomes backlinks. You get your 25 friends to put a link to your site on their blogs…

But seriously, Google SERPS fluctuate so much, and it’s often hard as a web developer to figure out why your site went up or down. Often it’s something out of your control, like someone with a decent PR who had linked to you moved their site, or something in the news caused a lot of other sites to nab the top spots for your keywords.

I suggest we all link to THIS post, drive its PR up, and thus “donate” to the Dean story.

By: butlimous

butlimous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:26:28 +0000

Please Dean, don’t be embarassed. There is no reason for that…hhhhh….Thanks for the nice entry and I hope that the post remains on the top ten forever.

By: Remi

Remi — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:10:14 +0000

”Does Google crawl more often if the a website content keeps changing ? Or the crawling rate is still the same and still depends on quality inbound links ?”

In my opinion, changing content doesn’t make google crawl your site more.
but I think pagerank do have a big influence on this.. so yea inbound links matters.

Keep in mind nobody can be sure how it really works.. Google always keep their little secrets. grr

By: Sterling Silver Jewelry

Sterling Silver Jewelry — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:42:27 +0000

Matt,
Does Google crawl more often if the a website content keeps changing ? Or the crawling rate is still the same and still depends on quality inbound links ?

By: Laura MacKenzie

Laura MacKenzie — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:57:01 +0000

and like I said… spelling – I know it, its my typing, it sucks and I forget to check before I submit… dagnabbit…

By: Barry Su

Barry Su — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:30:46 +0000

Hi Matt,

I attended SES 2006 in San Jose as an exhibitor and enjoyed Google Dance which’s really exciting. After nice food and beer, I spent all my time at Google Lab chatting with Google engineers. Amanda said she knew you well and you’re in Spam dept. I wished I could meet you there.

Now I have a problem with my company site, after coming back from San Jose…

The Google Indexed pages in our site has been down to 70,000 from 1,500,000 pages. This is the second time since this year. The first time it happened in early April due to Bigdaddy switch. But what’s going on now? Is it another Google Dance or what?

I just want to find out whoes problem it is. If something is wrong in our end, please let me know what it is in order for us to correct it ASAP.

BTW, I asked Googlers in San Jose why Google more and more discriminates new sites and only favors big guys.

Thanks for your time.