Indexing is live what about rankings ?
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I noticed that when I request indexing in the webmaster tool my new content is live within minutes. Does it take longer to update the ranking or is the ranking updated as soon as the new page has been indexed.
Thank you,
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Sort of.
Once crawled, changes made on a page may help or hurt your rankings or do nothing. Also, these changes may help your rankings for some keywords and hurt your rankings for other keywords assigned to that page.
On site changes are only one part of ranking a page. Incoming links are the other major part of the equation. If your competitors have more and/or better links than you, your on site changes alone, won't shoot you past them in the SERPs.
Rankings improve overtime as you continue to make on site tweaks, build more internal links to a page, and gain more backlinks to that page as well. It takes time to build links and it also takes time for Google to crawl those links as well.
Although I know it's tempting, sometimes it's best to not check your ranking report each day because it can be frustrating from day to day if you're not seeing movement. It's better to spend time daily on getting links or adding content to your site and then only check your ranking report weekly to keep your focus on the actual work.
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If I summarise , once my page is cached it means that I should see a change in ranking ! However, in some cases the change in ranking could improve over time. Correct ?
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Getting indexed just means that Google has your page in their index. They can then show it in the SERPs wherever their algorithm wants to, whether it be in the top 10 results or ranked at #283.
As you continue building relevant links to your site and adding more content and following all best practices for onsite optimization your page will rise in the rankings. Depending on the difficulty of the phrases your are trying to rank for, it could take several weeks to several months or years to get to page 1.
Keep in mind that after you make a change on your page, you have to wait until Google re-crawls that page for the updated version of that page to be in their index and, therefore, see a potential change in rankings.
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Hi,
Indexing of your pages is just the first step. Achieving better rankings doesn't happen overnight (unfortunately). It can take up to 6 months and longer before you will see any significant change in rankings.
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