Joe Majewski

Google Slow to Index Blog Posts

By using Google’s site operator, you can quickly see a list of pages that Google has indexed on any given website, or even directories or subdomains within a website. For example, performing a Google search for site:www.JoeMajewski.com, you will retrieve a full list of all pages that Google has found on my (this) website.

Usually, my new blog posts are indexed within minutes of being posted. Worst case scenario it would take thirty minutes, but never longer than that. The reason this happens is because WordPress pings a service that lets Googlebot know that new content has arrived upon publishing a new article.

Lately, this has changed. It has been 4 days since I posted an article about Google performing their PageRank update, and that submission has yet to be indexed on Google. This may be ironically due to the PageRank update causing it to be lost during the process, but I cannot think of any other reason as to why it still wouldn’t be indexed.

I have also written an article about an hour ago (that is unrelated to most other entries that I write) that is also not yet indexed by Google. I am assuming that the PageRank update is complete, and that things are back to normal (no more Google Dance, as the SEO geeks call it), so that tosses that theory out the window. But perhaps it is not indexed because of the fact that it’s unrelated to most of my other content.

I would be disappointed if Google changed the way that they archive blog posts, as I always enjoyed seeing my latest submissions show up on the search engine minutes after being published. If anyone has an explanation for as to why it is taking so long to get my articles archived, please comment and let me know.

Another reason this baffles me is because I just received PageRank 2, meaning that I should have more priority than I did before, so if anything was to change, I would expect it to be for the better. I will continue to investigate this issue, as I find it important for my content to be archived as soon as possible for best performance.

As always, I’ll keep you updated if I figure anything out. There must be some reason for the slow indexing that I’m receiving, and I’m curious to know if this is happening to others as well. Over and out.

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