How often does Google crawl a site and/or blog?

[Andy]

Hi All:

Have a question for everyone. Is there a difference between how often
google will crawl and index a website and how often it will crawl and
index the pages of the blog within that website?

We have a client, and I checked his webmaster tools and it seems that
the last time Google crawled his site was July 10. That seems like a
long time ago. If I remember correctly from Corey's class, Google
generally crawls a site once a month, is that correct? Should he be
concerned that it has been over a month? Also,what about the content
in his blog that is part of his site. Does that mean it was last
crawled on July 10? His posts never appears on the web, and he was
under the impression that as soon as you make a post to the blog,
Goolge can find it the same day. Is that true? I have taken some of
Ty's comments and suggestions from a previous post about adding some
plug-ins to his blog, and I am having his webmaster do this.
Hopefully this will help.

He is just getting very frustrated because he is paying for daily
content to be added to his blog and it seems that Google never finds
it or his site for that matter.

Any information would be appreciated.

Andy

[glaikit]

Hi Andy,

To answer the very first question - "I don't know!"

But, as anecdotal evidence I have a client let's call them Big Day
whose site is linked to FROM somebody else's blog let's call them
Eagle Eye. When I check backlinks for Big Day (using Google tools)
every single blog post from Eagle Eye shows up as a unique link and
there doesn't seem to be any delay.

I am still learning how to add muscle to a blog - I've just finished
relaunching my own. I "suspect" without any actual knowledge, that
there is not necessarily a delay, but "differences" in how Google
scans blogs and decides what to list or not. It may depend on how many
links and/or view or sphins or diggs etc. that the blog gets. I don't
know - yet.

I will certainly be using tracking on my new blog and hope to answer
these very questions. If I find out anything I'll post here.

Meanwhile, check out this page, which contains links to the most
important plugins - including ones for tracking your blog stats. It's
the same site I got my new theme from and I am VERY pleased and will
be using the plugins too.

http://www.techtrot.com/

Best of luck,
Fiona
www.weaversites.com
http://thewetsponge.com

[glaikit]

Hi again,

One more thing - make absolutely sure the writer getting paid, is
getting paid to write "original" content. If the content is coming
from an article marketing service or being 'scraped' frome somewhere
else, your client's blog posts are virtually guaranteed never to show
up.

Fiona

On Aug 24, 12:29 pm, glaikit <fdud...@weaversites.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> To answer the very first question - "I don't know!"
>
> But, as anecdotal evidence I have a client let's call them Big Day
> whose site is linked to FROM somebody else's blog let's call them
> Eagle Eye. When I check backlinks for Big Day (using Google tools)
> every single blog post from Eagle Eye shows up as a unique link and
> there doesn't seem to be any delay.
>
> I am still learning how to add muscle to a blog - I've just finished
> relaunching my own. I "suspect" without any actual knowledge, that
> there is not necessarily a delay, but "differences" in how Google
> scans blogs and decides what to list or not. It may depend on how many
> links and/or view or sphins or diggs etc. that the blog gets. I don't
> know - yet.
>
> I will certainly be using tracking on my new blog and hope to answer
> these very questions. If I find out anything I'll post here.
>
> Meanwhile, check out this page, which contains links to the most
> important plugins - including ones for tracking your blog stats. It's
> the same site I got my new theme from and I am VERY pleased and will
> be using the plugins too.
>
> http://www.techtrot.com/
>
> Best of luck,

> Fionawww.weaversites.comhttp://thewetsponge.com

>
> On Aug 22, 6:57 pm, Andy <aca...@idalica.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi All:
>
> > Have a question for everyone.  Is there a difference between how often
> > google will crawl and index a website and how often it will crawl and
> > index the pages of the blog within that website?
>
> > We have a client, and I checked his webmaster tools and it seems that
> > the last time Google crawled his site was July 10.  That seems like a
> > long time ago.  If I remember correctly from Corey's class, Google
> > generally crawls a site once a month, is that correct?  Should he be
> > concerned that it has been over a month?  Also,what about the content
> > in his blog that is part of his site.  Does that mean it was last
> > crawled on July 10?  His posts never appears on the web, and he was
> > under the impression that as soon as you make a post to the blog,
> > Goolge can find it the same day.  Is that true?  I have taken some of
> > Ty's comments and suggestions from a previous post about adding some
> > plug-ins to his blog, and I am having his webmaster do this.
> > Hopefully this will help.
>
> > He is just getting very frustrated because he is paying for daily
> > content to be added to his blog and it seems that Google never finds
> > it or his site for that matter.
>
> > Any information would be appreciated.
>

> > Andy- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Ty]

"he was under the impression that as soon as you make a post to the
blog,
Goolge can find it the same day"

If you don't have the blog set up to get pinged after every article is
posted, it will just get indexed over time. Even at that, just
because your articles get pinged and indexed doesn't mean they will be
at the top of search results. If your blog deals with popular topics,
then Google won't favor your article over one that has age, link
equity. Remember you need time, linking, anchor text etc. Have you
started a link campaign for the blog?
My advice would be never suggest to any client results that quick, if
this is a new blog, and the topic is hot, then it will be some time
before organic traffic flows, but you are doing the right thing,
optimize, content. Just be patient...:)
Oh, and Fiona is absolutely right, make sure content is 100% original

[Corey]

Everything I've seen, heard, and read seems to indicate that there is
not a lot of difference in the way Google spiders blogs and websites.
After all, a blog is a website.

Blogs that seldom get edited, get spidered and indexed less often.
Blogs that frequently get edited, get spidered and indexed more often.

It goes for blogs and for regular websites both - with little
difference between them.

Of course, if Google is coming around every two months and you start
editing your site every day, it won't figure that out for quite a
while. It does not see every time it is edited. It just sees if it
has been edited since the last time they visited.

So it takes a while for them to catch up.

In other words, they may come every two months at first. If they see
it has been edited, they may come every one month, then every two
weeks, etc. It will take quite a while for them to start visiting
frequently.

That's what I've seen.

Corey

[glaikit]

Makes perfect sense to me !
Fiona