Getting Recrawled by Google
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I have been updating my site a lot and some of the updates are showing up in Google and some are not. Is there a best practice in getting your site fully recrawled by Google?
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If your site does not get crawl completely, i will recommend
a) To create a site-map, so that search engines can understand the site hierarchy and can deep crawl the site
b) Look at your site structure, Make your site more organized so as to have better crawl. It should not happen that a user needs to visit - home page > category page > sub category page > article or below to read the article. At best, article snippet should come on home page for a day. If not, should be accessible from home page > category page > article
c) Submit the article posted to Social Media - Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter etc. It will help search engines discover your link faster
By sure - will improve the crawl mechanism to your site
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PS
#1
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/beginners-guide-doing-a-site-audit-using-google-webmaster-tools/
http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1352276?hl=en
Same rules for Google https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages
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Heres more
Kristina Kledzik from distilled wrights about this a lot
http://www.distilled.net/about/people/kristina-kledzik/
http://www.zemanta.com/blog/technical-seo-audit-for-publishers/
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/site-navigation-for-seo/
http://yoast.com/how-to-get-google-to-crawl-your-site-faster/
http://www.stateofsearch.com/a-guide-to-crawling-indexing-and-ranking-your-websit/
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/how-to-do-a-5-step-site-audit/
http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/easy-ways-seo-can-kill-your-site
Use Screaming Frog SEO Spider Use this with http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide
http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/three-seo-deal-killers.htm
Other good to know
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/beginners-guide-doing-a-site-audit-using-google-webmaster-tools/
http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/5-seo-strategies-we-swear-arent-going-anywhere.htm
http://www.mnsearch.org/john-doherty-from-distilled-teaches-mnsearch-about-technical-seo/
Hope this help's,
Thomas
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Hi,
Yes here is a link to some good info & tips
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/advanced-seo-troubleshooting-why-isnt-this-page-indexed/
Absolutely. Make sure you have a fast hosting company hosting your website.
Make sure there's no flash, Ajax, or JavaScript obscuring your site from Google bot
Make sure your robots.txt file is not no following or no indexing any thing that you want to be found by Google
Same goes for your tags
- noindex X-Robots-Tag in HTTP header (X-Robots-Tag: noindex)
- Incorrect mime type declared in HTTP header. For example, for an HTML document, if it was declared as Content-Type: text/javascript
You can use Google Webmaster tools and the selection fetches Google bot and submit all URLs to index if you want to make sure it is being indexed in Google knows that you want the site indexed.
I hope I've been out sincerely,
Thomas
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