Search Engine Roundtable has a post today about Google indexing pages that are not linked from anywhere. Their theory is that the Googlebot is spidering GET forms.
Shoot, I’ve had brand new sites, with no links leading to them, spidered almost immediately since last April! My lingerie site was being spidered every two weeks since inception, and I didn’t add any backlinks (or GET forms) to it since I was still looking for a shopping cart. It was pulling over 600 visitors a month, probably guys looking for porn, but still… My theory at that time was that there was a voyeur at Google that really liked the models, and and what better excuse to peek than to sic the spider on it?
Since then I’ve launched other sites that have been indexed before I was ready for it. There are no sexy lingerie models on those sites, but they rank for long tail keyword phrases and get visitors just the same.
The only thing I have done that would alert Google to the new sites is to put analytics on them. Maybe that’s all it takes to get the spider there and the indexing process in motion.
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Hi Kay,
Followed you here from ActiveRain (actually I just clicked the link). Thanks for all the great information, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get goggle to notice my two different sites and know I think I know a way to get it handled. Thanks for the great information, I’ll be coming back here often.
Bonnie
TheHomeInspectorsWife
My site is not crawled soon … its crawled once in a week … or everytime i check ..the crawling date is very lately ..
i also started blog on the site and update it regularly with new content …. the blog crawls much better then the site homepage ..
I have inter linked all pages well and try getting quality backlinks to my sites too …
any suggestion on how to get our site crawled soon everytime ???
Bonnie - you’re welcome, I’m glad if I helped you figure it out. Be sure to subscribe to my feed.
Valentino - once a week is not bad. As you continue to add new content, the spider will come around more frequently. Continue to link from your blog to all the pages on your site, not just the home page.