Google Index/Cashe questions
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I have 15k+ pages. I have 4.5k pages indexed.
What relation is the google cashe to indexing pages? My site gets cashed every two days. The competition in my SERP goes 2-3weeks to get cashed. What does this indicate? Is your cashe date your last google crawl?
How can I get google to crawl my site? Is there a way I can get google to crawl my site starting from an internal page. This way I could set up a better linking structure that would benefit from doing activities that get that page indexed to help get my site indexed more thoroughly...
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I guess I might try that. I was concerned 40-50 links on an internal page (very internal = No PR) would kill that page and any chance of the internal pages ranking.
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Yes, you have a good take on it JML. I too would love to hear what others have to say about this.
Have you thought about putting a "View All" option (link) on your listings pages? This could make it possible for both users and Google bot to access all of the listings without having to deal with the latency inherent with paginated pages. (Googe's own research has shown that users prefer scrolling through lots of content instead of having to move from one page to another....just a thought).
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So if I can get google to come to an interior page, how deep will it dig. Perhaps I need to figure out how many times can I call google per month, then have that many interior pages that have a significant number of links that lead to additional static pages (each link) that are linked out as well.
Like a pyramid. Google enters Interior Page (A). It's a static page (wordpress) that links 99 links that all link to 99 pages that link to 99 pages. Google would go about three in? I could get more indexed like this.
My page is linked well. It's dynamic content (real estate listings) that have hubs set up. There is a lot of pagination which is what I think google stops at. It enters subdivision "X" and there are 10 listings per page, paginated. There are 300 listings in that subdivision. I don't think google is going too far in to that subdivisions listings page. I need to understand google indexing better.
I invite more participants. Thank you Dana. I need more info all
Help!
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Yes, you can get Google to crawl your site starting from an interior page using "Fetch as Googlebot" which is available as an item in the left hand navigation menu is Google Webmaster tools. After entering the URL of the page click on "Submit to Index" and then a box will open that gives the choice of submitting just that URL or submitting the URL plus all linking pages. Choose that second option. You can only do this a limited number of times a month so be judicious about which ones you submit this way.
As far as cache date, convention wisdom is that the more recent your cache date, the better. What this means is that Google is actually crawling your site more often. A cache date of 3 weeks or more happens when Google has come to your site or page many times but rarely finds any new content. WHen that's the case, google bot visits less frequently. Because Google values fresh content, it's better to have a newer cache date and to have google bot visiting more frequently.
I would be a little bit concerned that you have 15K pages and only 4.5K indexed. That ratio seems low to me. This might be an indication that google bot is having trouble crawling your entire site. Also, how new is your site? Is it a few months old or a few years old? Google bot crawls new sites more frequently, simply because they are new content. Over time, depending on how often your content is edited, updated or new content is posted, the crawl schedule will change.
I know this is only a partial answer to your question. But hopefully it provides a little insight.
Dana
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