Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:50 am Post subject: How long for Google indexing with link from PR5 site?
I have a new site which has not been indexed yet.
There is a link to the new site from a PR 5 site which is crawled everyday, but Googlebot has not even visited the new site, much less crawled and indexed it yet.
Is this normal? Could there be any other reason for this?
Besides the fact that noone can predict when a site will be spidered or indexed, you have to ask if your link on the PR5 site is able to be indexed?
Check and make sure that something wasn't done that prevents the link from being indexed.
Here are a few things to look for:
1. a straight href link <a href="http://www.your-domain.com">info</a>
This is the preferred way to have a link, there are others, but this is the most common. Javascript or hidden links can't be spidered.
I set up a link exchange with a site recently. As always I check my links here and there, but the link exchange wasn't showing up to my benefit. So I went to the page where my link appeared and started checking things out.
After the original exchange (which was done with a standard link), the owner of the other site changed it to a <span> link (commonly referred to as a hidden or dynamic link) which is not indexable. So I removed their link.
2. does the page your link is on have a robots meta tag that says "noindex" or "nofollow?"
If it does this is bad. The first one prevents the page from being spidered, the second one may prevent your link from being picked up for future indexing on that site.
3. Does the site exclude the page from indexing with the robots.txt or .htaccess files? (This can be harder to figure out).
One easy way is to check and see if the other links on that page are showing as backlinks to that site.
You can also check with the SE's and see if your link is showing as a backlink. Obviously Google isn't, but what about Altavista, Alltheweb, and others? If the link is showing as a backlink there, it will eventually with Google, you just have to give it time.
Hope this helps,
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The PR5 site is definitely indexed, including the page with the link. In fact, Google crawls that site, and that page almost every day. The link is a very straightforward link with the site name as the anchor text.
My concern is due to the fact that I understood Googlebot to automatically follow links in real-time as it finds them, and it finds my link every day; still no crawling of my site however.
I understood Googlebot to automatically follow links in real-time as it finds them,
I don't know where you heard that, but it isn't my understanding. Google holds the links it finds and puts them at the bottom of the list they have to index, once they have traveled up the list, then the spider goes to them.
No idea how long it takes to travel up that list, or how long that list may be at any point in time, but the bot is fast and incoming links to your site make it faster. Get more!
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The PR5 site is definitely indexed, including the page with the link. In fact, Google crawls that site, and that page almost every day. The link is a very straightforward link with the site name as the anchor text.
My concern is due to the fact that I understood Googlebot to automatically follow links in real-time as it finds them, and it finds my link every day; still no crawling of my site however.
First of all how do you know if your site was crawled or not, do you have a stats package to show bots or you only assume it hasn't found you?
Anyway it can take up to 6 weeks for a backlink to get registered as such, so do not worry, get other links in the mean time.
After the original exchange (which was done with a standard link), the owner of the other site changed it to a <span> link (commonly referred to as a hidden or dynamic link) which is not indexable. So I removed their link.
Could you go into details a little?
The span tag is generic tag for using styles within a block, as far as I know, so it may have been actually a genuine link. Did it have javascript also?
Monica, it don't remember if it had javascript, however I do know it had no <a href> tag, so it was styled to appear as a link and act like one, but would not be recognizable as an indexable (sic?) link, and would therefore transfer no PR.
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