A Little Experiment

dragonfly · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2008, 12:17

I have several pages that rank reasonably well for a narrow phrase such as "Same Day Courier #town#", this has been part of my target, however due to my metatags and content nothing that rates for "same Day Delivery #town#" nothing at all. This is my fault for not using the word delivery at all hardly, as was pointed out recently elsewhere on the forums. I have today, rejigged a few keywords, and just uploaded the changed files. Now lets see how long before they start getting indexed.

I'm not talking about hitting #1 spot. Just the time for the changes to take effect. My thinking is that, this will give me a good guide as to how long it take for our little tweaks to find their way into google.

Anybody care to hazard a guess?

dragonfly · #2 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 13:36

Well the pages are just starting to show up in google now, interesting they were cached on the 13th.

So i reckon approx 1 week from been crawled the results start to filter through to results.

Interestingly my home page hasn't been crawled since the 7th. Think maybe there is a queue of pages waiting to be crawled for some of my sites.

OldWelshGuy · #3 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 14:05

have a look at the WMT details on pages and pagerank.

dragonfly · #4 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 14:12

Page rank on the google webmaster stuff is mostly "low" with a few pages as yet unranked.

What is WMT?

SEO Guy · #5 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 15:46

W- - m - - - - - t - - - -

OldWelshGuy · #6 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 15:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by SEO Guy

W- - m - - - - - t - - - -

Oh great the old Hangman hijacking ploy

I guess 'A'

dragonfly · #7 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 16:21

Webmaster Tools then

I googled it and got Waste Management Technology or West Midlands Transport. Guessed it wasn't either of those.

Yep that's where I was looking for my page rank. Most of the site is ranked "low"

SEO Guy · #8 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 16:32

Have you ran all the diagnostics?

UKSBD · #9 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 16:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonfly

Interestingly my home page hasn't been crawled since the 7th. Think maybe there is a queue of pages waiting to be crawled for some of my sites.

Are you basing that on your logs or the page cache?
I added a new link from my homepage the other day. no other link pointing
to the page, within 24hrs the new page was indexed but the cached
snapshot of the homepage was still saying 7th August.

dragonfly · #10 (**permalink**) 18-08-2008, 17:08

Webmaster tools state when the home page was last crawled

The log files and the cache date are the same, however it didn't appear in search results for nearly a week. Suggesting that it was processed fairly promptly (i.e. with in a day or two) however the indexes at google took nearly a week to update.