Thread: Google indexing time shocker

Hey guys,

I just wanted to say that I'm amazed at how quickly Google seems to index (some) WordPress blogs.

In the past, I've made several websites "manually" (i.e., all hand-coded .php and .css files, starting from scratch), and it takes days for Google to notice when I add new content to those sites. But with my latest, WordPress-based sites, new content (posts) appears in the Google index (as discovered using the site: search) within a few hours (certainly the same day)!

Perhaps it's something to do with this pinging malarkey. In any case, I'm now a bit reluctant to go back to hand-coding sites; WordPress-based sites seem to have a real advantage in this sense.

Pinging and rss feed directories have a lot to do with it.

My wordpress sites are indexed quickly with google too.

That's why I like WordPress. But it has definately a lot to do with the ping services WordPress is using and normal sites aren't

Pinging really helps a lot IMO.

some of my new sites got indexed within 48 hrs of creation...

All are based on wordpress...

Google might have some special algorithms for WordPress blogs/sites

Some of my Wordpress sites take less than 30 seconds to get crawled and indexed.

great to know this as i haven't notice. i only notice that my visitors keep growing/