26 March 2012: This article is one of a series of experiments I am carrying out to see how to get your Blog indexed quickly on the Search Engines.  You can see the previous article here and you can see the first article of the series here.  You will see from the original article that I am researching how do blogs get indexed so quickly on the search engines.  There are many theories on the forums on how blogs get indexed so quickly such as:- 1. Ping-o-matic pinging service, 2. Google likes blogs, 3. the sitemap generator.

I am implementing changes to my blog on a step by step basis and measuring the results of each change to see how they effect the speed at which my blog is indexed on Google.

In my last article I explained the latest steps I had taken in this experiment and published the article to see how soon would it be indexed on Google.  As I had said previously, my articles in the Tradesmen.ie blog are indexed in less than a minute and appear quite high in the rankings so I wanted to see exactly what influences this and see can we replicate it on other blogs and other pages in our websites.

So on Saturday March 24th (2 days ago) I published one article on the Tradesmen.ie blog and another article on the Barrowvale blog.  Within 1 minute of publishing the Tradesmen.ie blog it was live but half an hour after publishing the Barrowvale blog it still wasn’t live..

18 hours later the barrowvale post is still not live..

2 days later I check the results and it says that it was indexed 1 day ago so it took 24 hours:-

The next step will be to add a link to the blog on the barrowvale site.  As we have seen the blog is already indexed on Google now so it shouldn’t make much of a difference.   Next steps after that will be as follows:-
1. Add the blog to the sitemap to see does it have any effect on how quickly it is indexed in Google.

2.  set up blogs under different names such as ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’.  Seemingly Google loves blogs so we want to see does Google still index articles or content that are similar to a blog but do not use the name of ‘blog’.

If you are interested to see the results please feel free to bookmark or subscribe to the blog or to add your comments below.

Other articles in this series:-
Why do blogs posts get crawled so fast?
Why is ping-o-matic not working?
How to ping technorati from your WordPress blog
How soon will my article be indexed?

Cheers
Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale.ie

11 March 2012.  This is the first article in a series of experiments that I am carrying out to find how blogs are indexed so quickly on Google.  Have you ever wondered why blog posts get crawled so fast on Google?  I have been fascinated by this ever since it was first demonstrated to me about 3-4 years ago.  If we can understand how this works it will be a major help to increasing our rankings on Google.  I intend to carry out some experiments to find what is the secret to blog posts appearing so quickly on Google.  I have seen blog posts being indexed on Google in as little as 1 minute and appearing in the top 3 search results.   I have done some research on this subject and there are lots of different suggestions put forward as folllows:-

1. Google likes blogs (ok that’s fine but is it the name blog that Google likes or is it the fact the content is updated regularly.  If the blog page was called ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’ would it be indexed as quickly?  These are answers that I intend to find out in the coming months and I will post the finding here.  But don’t forget that whatever the cause of the these pages being indexed quickly and ranked hight at the moment is now, it may change in the future if Google changes its crawl pattern or algorithms so this is something that will need to be continually evaluated)

2. It’s due to the Ping-o-Matic pinging service that is installed by default by WordPress (well if that’s true why has our first blog post on Barrowvale.ie not being indexed yet.  I deliberately did not put a link to our blog on Barrowvale.ie to test this theory and Google has not indexed the blog so Ping-o-Matic didn’t work)

3. It may be the sitemap generator (A sitemap has been submitted but it doesn’t include the blog so Google doesn’t know about it yet.  More about this in future blogs, e.g. how to set up the sitemap for the blog and what effect it has on indexing )

My next steps will be as follows:-

a) test ping-o-matic, measure and record results

b) put a link on Barrowvale.ie to the blog, measure and record results

c) Set up the sitemap, measure and record results

d) set up blogs under different names such as ‘News’ or ‘Events’ or ‘Cool Stuff’, measure and record results

I will also identify any obvious problems that will prevent a blog from performing so please stay tuned

You can read the next article in this series here

Cheers

Oliver Dempsey
Barrowvale Technology Ltd