Google Frequently Indexing - Good or Bad?
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Hi,
My website is only 4 months old and receives about 40 to 50 organic visits every day. It currently has about 100 pages out of which only 3-4 rank in the top 10 for the target KWs. I usually try to publish, at least 1 article a day but sometimes certain articles are more than 2000 words long with a few of infographics and hence takes way more time (maybe even 3 days to publish one)
Only over the last week, I am observing that every time i am publishing a page (usually daily) google is indexing them the same day. This I have heard happens for moderately big sites but my site is really small at this stage. Note: For the first 80 pages, I used to "fetch as googlebot" in webmasters as otherwise my site would be crawled once in 2 weeks but over the last 3-4 weeks, i rely on googles scheduled visits.
Is this a good or bad sign?
I would like to assume its good because of my engagement. Though for only organic visits, my Gogle Analytics bounce rate is 65% in analytics out of the remaining 35%, the avg time on site >7 mins. That means if someone sticks to my site, they consume a lot of my content. Also, since analytics' bounce rate is not same as the search bounce (back button) I would like to consider that the bounce is actually lesser than that.
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Hello Ashish, indexing and caching of pages depends upon many factors :-
(1) dynamic nature of website (2) frequency and priority of webpages in XML sitemap (3) posting of webpages in G+, twitter and other social sites, freshness and uniqueness of content and lastly how popular your website.
Its good new that Google is crawling website quickly just because of hard work associated with your work.
65% bounce rate is too much. Bounce rate directly depends upon session, session% and number of page view per visit. If you any particular visit in Google analytics, bounce rate shows lesser for visit with good number of page views. Hence more page visit per visitor, lesser bounce rate.
To decrease bounce rate, use more related links and images to landing page. Additionally, use of images and inforgraphics can drastically lower down bounce rate and hence good keyword ranking.
thanks and cheers
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Makes awesome sense! thanks
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It's normal.
Google as a crawl budget.
Once your website is indexed (sitemap submission) the crawler visits your website daily and depending on a number of factors does crawl a portion of your website only, a different yet somehow overlapping portion, everyday. It usually crawl every single page within few weeks but I have seen the crawler stubbornly refuse to crawl certain pages for longer.
A small website with just 100 pages it's unlikely to hit any crawl budget.
When it comes to fresh content, new pages, it's more hungry, google crawler likes fresh food, and google algo tries to index fresh content as soon as possible.
So what's happening to your website is perfectly normal.
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