Google "Dance"

[Guest]

Google is really starting to my head in at the moment!

 

Ive been in Google for about 2 or so weeks now, and thats great but ive only got 26 pages listed permanently. Sometimes I appear to "Dance" and I will get 119 listed in there.

 

Basically I do much better in the listings when i have more pages listed because some of my products arent being listed 85percent of the time.

 

Its bizarre, i do a search of site:www.supertent.co.uk and refresh it a few times and then ill go back to a measly 26 pages!! grrrrrrrr

 

Is this normal, will it ever settle at 119 pages or is there some more dark, sinister reason why they keep changing me to 26 pages listed as the 26 pages are only half my products!

 

Cheers,

 

Jon.

[kgt]

Google indexes somewhere around 8 billion pages. It truly takes a long time for even hundreds of computers to crawl all of these pages, index them, and calculate the rank.

 

For some overview information about Google and crawling, see

 

http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/2a.html

 

The most important thing with Google is to have other sites link to yours. The more it's referenced by other sites, the more often Googlebot will crawl it, and the more often it will update your site in the index.

[Guest]

Google indexes somewhere around 8 billion pages. It truly takes a long time for even hundreds of computers to crawl all of these pages, index them, and calculate the rank.

 

For some overview information about Google and crawling, see

 

http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/2a.html

 

The most important thing with Google is to have other sites link to yours. The more it's referenced by other sites, the more often Googlebot will crawl it, and the more often it will update your site in the index.

 

 

Fair enought but im just wondering why it seems to vary between 2 different numbers of pages that are indexed. its like sometimes im connecting to one google that has a lot of my pages and another time im connecting to a google that only has 26 pages.

 

The pages have been indexed theyre just not showing them it seems.

 

Confusing!

 

Jon.

[kgt]

Keep in mind that crawling != indexing.

 

Your pages may be crawled (read) but they will not necessarily be indexed the moment they're crawled. Indexing a page is actually a very complicated procedure. Keywords, word frequency, font face and size, and page layout are just a few of the ways Google indexes pages. Ignoring stop words (common words like "the"), every single word in your site gets added to the index. This way, if I search for "dog", Google needs only to look up the word dog in the index to get a list of all pages that have the word dog.

 

As far as why some of your searches on your site produce 26 pages, and others more, I can only speculate. Google stores the index with this information on MANY different servers. Accuracy and speed are generally warring goals when it comes to web searching. Possibly some of the index servers experience high load and their results are left out for the sake of speed. Google's very tight-lipped about how exactly they do all of this. Aside from the initial papers written by Brin and Page when they were at Stanford, most of what the outside world knows of Google is based on a combination of piecing together tidbits of information and a general knowledge of how things are done in the information retrieval field.

[Guest]

Keep in mind that crawling != indexing.

 

Your pages may be crawled (read) but they will not necessarily be indexed the moment they're crawled. Indexing a page is actually a very complicated procedure. Keywords, word frequency, font face and size, and page layout are just a few of the ways Google indexes pages. Ignoring stop words (common words like "the"), every single word in your site gets added to the index. This way, if I search for "dog", Google needs only to look up the word dog in the index to get a list of all pages that have the word dog.

 

As far as why some of your searches on your site produce 26 pages, and others more, I can only speculate. Google stores the index with this information on MANY different servers. Accuracy and speed are generally warring goals when it comes to web searching. Possibly some of the index servers experience high load and their results are left out for the sake of speed. Google's very tight-lipped about how exactly they do all of this. Aside from the initial papers written by Brin and Page when they were at Stanford, most of what the outside world knows of Google is based on a combination of piecing together tidbits of information and a general knowledge of how things are done in the information retrieval field.

 

but its really annoying though! some of my products are unsearchable because it decides to leave them out now and again! GrrRrrRRRrrR!!!

 

lol :)

 

big up msnsearrch for indexing my pages and then leaving them be, maybe its coz i paid for Bcentral and theyre giving me the preferential treatment!!