Hello everyone! Does anyone know how often the Google SERPs are updated? My website comes up in about 68th place for a certain keyword in Google, and I would like to know how long it would take before I would notice a change in ranking after making SEO changes. Any help would be appreciated.
usually you can see results a few days after your site has been cached.... but to answer your question precisely: Updates are always happening
What do you mean? If you mean their algo its random. If you mean being cahed then its everytime... Regards
Thank you for your response Shoemoney! So, since at least one of my website pages is coming up in google for a search term, it has already been cached, right? Therefore any future SEO optimizations I make to those pages should be updated within a few days, right? Basically I want to know this: If I make SEO optimizations to my pages today, how long must I wait to see the results in my SERP? Also, although this website is only 2-3 months old, some of my pages are being indexed already, but I would like to know how many are actually indexed - how could I check how many of my pages are indexed in Google? I know next to nothing about SEO at this point, so I am sorry in advance if these are really dumb questions. Thank you for your time.
Another question for you SEO guru's.. Let's say that I want to rank well for the term: "Website Layouts", and right now my layouts page is at this address: http://mysite.com/layouts.php. Would I get better rankings if I changed the file name to: websitelayouts.php, website-layouts.php, or website_layouts.php? Or perhaps a folder name, and/or a new filename like: http://mysite.com/website layouts/websitelayouts.php? Would any of the above help? If so, which is the best method? Also, if any of you guys have learned your SEO skills from a specific source (ebook, website, etc.), I would be interested in knowing where to find it. I have learned a lot from just reading these forums, but if I had an easier/faster way to read through the information that I really need to hear, then that would be awesome.
Well, your question has different answers. There is on-page optimization and off-page optimization. It sounds like you're talking about on-page - the stuff you edit on your webpages. Off-page is basically who links to your site and the terms they refer to it - the way other web sites describe your own and how many link to it. For on-page stuff, you have to wait for Google to crawl your website. There is a regular crawling schedule, and sites that are more "important" with higher Pagerank, etc. get crawled more frequently. Basically, Google has to come to your site and figure out what's on there. I've seen it be from once a month to daily for sites like DigitalPoint. However, they are switching to a new crawler as part of the "BigDaddy" update which is going on right now. That will likely mean differences in how this works. Several times a month, they seem to do updates to the system that add in the effect of new links, the off-page stuff. The only problem is that at this exact moment, we are at the tail-end of a big update to Google's systems. They have been doing weird stuff for the last two months, some people think they're using old data right now, etc., and I don't think they're on a normal schedule. Basically what they have been doing is gradually merging two separate sets of Google search results into each other and replacing the old system with the new one. This is supposed to be completed in a week or two. So you might have to wait until then or even longer before stuff starts updating normally.
Well as far as I have noticed the updation process... takes anywhere from 2-3 months... the last update being the longest one... And the robots come to your site regularly whenever they find your site... and the sites those having good pr get crawled by google on a regular basis... everyday... or the next day...