Joe Majewski

Google’s Slow Indexing Rate for Blog Posts Resolved… Kinda

Last night I posted an article about Google’s slow indexing rate for my latest blog posts. Usually my articles get indexed within minutes, but recently it has been taking over 12 hours before Google gets around to adding my posts to their search results.

I did some research and found that others have had that same problem in the past. I still don’t know the exact reason that this was occurring, but rest assured, Google did get around to indexing my articles, albeit it took almost a full day.

For anyone else having similar issues, I would suggest just waiting it out, as maybe Google’s pinging service was queued up heavily during the time of my submission, or possibly they were in the process of updating their search engine. Regardless, I can only assume that things will return back to normal in due time.

If this problem persists, I will escalate my concerns and shoot an email in Google’s direction to find out why. I understand that Google’s crawl rate is composed of many variables, but that should have no affect on their pinging service, which tells Google that new content has been published and alerts them to index the new page.

This situation is out of my hands, as there really isn’t anything that I can do to cause my pages to index quicker, except to legitimately write new content on a regular basis, as always.

Google has always revolved around the thesis that content is most important regarding getting a high ranking in the search results, so the best thing to do when a problem like this arises is to, you guessed it, write new content rich with information useful to others.

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