How Long Does it take Google To Recrawl or Reindex a Page
Question: If a particular page of my website is indexed at Google for a long time and If I changed the content or meta tags recently, how long does it takes Google to reindex or recrawl the page again and update the results?
In the following video, Google engineer Matt cutts shares some good tips regarding how often Google crawls and reindexes your webpage, if you change the content of the page after a long time.
According to Matt, Google will crawl your page at definite intervals and look if the page has updated or if it has “additional content”, since the last time the bots crawled and indexed that page. If after successive visits the bots find no new or “fresh” content, they may lower the frequency of crawling.
However, if you change the content of the page after a while, the bots will discover the change sooner or later and they will refresh their index. There is no need to update your sitemap or submit the page again in Google webmaster tools.
According to me, there is no need to worry about reindexing or recrawling, as the bots are smart enough to determine how often they should crawl a particular page of your blog. If your site structure is good and every page is accessible via static links, the bots will have no problem finding and crawling the particular page in question.
Wow… This is interesting…. I was looking for this info…
So the best way to re-index a post wud be to either add some new content … or invite comments…
Btw, i didn’t know he shaved off his head …
@Debajyoti: The best way to ping Google is to get fresh links pointing to that page. Create a new post and link to that older post. When Google crawls the fresh post, it will see the link and crawl that old post.
By the way, Matt shaved his head some time back. Thanks for the comment.
i have created sitemap for my site and submitted it to google webmaster for the indexing purposes.
I also want my site to be indexed on yahoo and bing..
will you please tell me that how can it be done.
Also i need to know that do we need to make changes in our sitemap in order to consider it for reindexing on different search engines..
Please help me out ..
@Shruti: Interesting question.
If you have unique content in your website, you do not have to worry about Indexing. Google, Yahoo and Bing will find your website themselves and Index it. Focus on writing unique and original content. If you have submitted your website’s sitemap to Google webmaster tools, then you will certainly see the number of indexed URL’s besides the sitemap.
Regarding sitemaps, it does not matter whether you have a sitemap or not, search bots will are able to crawl and index websites that do not have a sitemap. No need to worry about changing sitemaps and all, the bots are intelligent enough to find your site.
If you want to quickly index your pages, try to get external links pointing to your site. This may be from other blogs, by posting comments or guest posts. You may also use forum posting to get quick links to your site’s pages.
Once the links are there, the bots will crawl you faster.Thanks for the comment.
Thanks Amit..
The information provided by you is really valuable.
@Shruti: No problem.
I visited your domain and it is a website (not a blog). Since a website do not have a large number of pages, you have to get really quality backlinks. Blogs have a lot of content and thus search engines sometime prefer blogs than websites.
thanks for your info.. my blog very bad in google crawler & i want to searching info how long google re-crawl my blog again.
Great discussion…. i was just looking up the same thing. I only updated the site two days ago and was just curious. Thanks for the great info. Sounds like google is pretty quick:)
Yes its good info, but I think it would be nice if you could somehow trigger the recrawl, like making a ping to google when your content changes.
Stella Startos
But again the waiting time can be extremely long if you have made changes you would like to have reflected into google’s index.
Best regards
Stella S.
Very good and specific information. This is exactly what I was looking for. I am slowly updating and SEOing old posts. So now that I know it actually helps I will continue.
Thanks TTC.
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I have a question for Amit Banerjee. Hi Amit I would just like to say first you a legend for giving out advice thank you.
Amit I have a travel agency and have just launched a website which has been long overdue. Now my problem is I don’t understand very much at all about search engine and getting my site higher up the front page of google.
Mate can you help me? What do I need to do to take on the big boys in this industry without throwing their sort of money at it?
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Thank you
And thank you to anyone else who can help
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How long does it take for an article that is deleted from a blog to stop featuring in the google search results? I deleted some articles from my blog and wanted to post them on another website but its being rejected as duplicate content…so how long should i wait for the reposting?