Comments on: Indexing timeline

By: Grey Richard

Grey Richard — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:29:41 +0000

Very Informative Article for those who are looking forward a career in search engine optimization.
Thanks A Lot

By: David Thomas Marquardt

David Thomas Marquardt — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:25:24 +0000

Matt you are a rock star! Thanks

By: Paul Myers

Paul Myers — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:21:30 +0000

Great ‘old’ post! Especially so now the panda update has been released (and not before time). Funny reading about big daddy, a lot of time has passed since then and I have to say i think Google has maybe lost a little focus, as with all the updates I still see irrelevant sites popping up in searches above site with genuine content and offerings. Hopefully you guys (Google) are on the right track with Panda. Time will tell but we are seeing some good site loss rankings as well as the bad.

By: Derek Jansen

Derek Jansen — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:38:52 +0000

I’ve noticed an excellent decrease in indexing time over the past few years. Google’s really good at picking up new content and indexing it in no time, especially if you use WP.

By: Megha

Megha — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:58:56 +0000

This is true. In this age of internet business many people are spamming just in order to create negative impact on your site. So, try to keep safe distance from such spammers.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:17:37 +0000

I’ve just read this and it seems that spammers are the only people whom will have a site that will end up penalized by Google indexing rate. I’ve been searching high and low these past few days for any reason my own site has stopped getting indexed quickly. I really can’t see any reason.

I would really love to have some light shone on it but after visiting webmaster forum I was met by guys who do nothing but talk down to you and then ever since that indexing has gotten worse. Matt I’m getting real depressed about this. I really don’t know what’s going on. Everything I do is for the people, I’m not even building any links to the site it’s all natural but since 15th June indexing has gotten really bad and even worse since inquiring on the help forum.

I know you don’t gotta reply too but I’ve got real respect for you and Google and for the people who visit my blog but not being able to publish posts on hot topics and get traffic for it is really making me feel depressed when me and big Steve are working real hard on this site. I do hope you can reply to me.

By: Shaun Parker

Shaun Parker — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:52:52 +0000

Hi Matt,

Ive been in the industry in the UK since before you guys started your world domination, today I spent some time looking through some old bookmarks on a pc I have not used for years and found this one. Talk about a trip down memory lane, Big Daddy was just one of many waves to come from you guys, I think Florida was the one though that was ‘The’ industry tidal wave that will never be forgotten.

Anyway hope Im not too off topic here just was amazed and full of nostalgia.

By: tina

tina — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:12:58 +0000

Hi, my website indexed status is

URLs submitted Indexed URLs
8,079 445

I dont understand why is that, if 8,079 url submitted then why only 445 url indexed pls advice thanks
tina

By: Gouri

Gouri — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:29:50 +0000

In google search, I can find results which were published just minutes before. Whereas, in case of my blog, I can see my posts indexed only after a few days. This problem has started from my second post onwards. My first post was indexed & available in google search within few minutes of publishing. Is this due some setting problem with my XML map or robots.txt plugin?

By: Perplexed

Perplexed — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:51:12 +0000

Matt / All

There seem to be many sites that Google has not re-indexed for months and in some cases years, resulting in inaccurate information appearing in the results (snippet descriptions). These seem to be especially prevalent with domain information web sites, including

http://www.souv.net/whois-com/ip-address/domain.com
http://www.who.is/whois/
http://whois.domaintools.com
http://www.domaincrawler.com/domains/view/

For example when performing the following search

DotCorner.com last update date site:http://www.souv.net/whois-com/ip-address/

The snippet text reads:

Jul 24, 2008 … Last Update Date: 2007-09-05. Name Servers: … Registration Service Provided By: DotCorner.com. Contact: …

The live page shows

Last Update Date: 2008-09-07

Indicating that Google has not re-indexed the page for at least 11 months.

As a result there are many cases where performing a name search on an individual shows up domains that the individual may have owned years ago. In my case, Google is showing me as the owner of domains which now either contain explicit content or names suggesting explicit content.

Is there a reason for this, and what can be done to fix the issue?