Usage of Google Sitemaps - time to index ; an example
What is the time until Google updates the serps for updates webpages?
This article describes an example for adding a new article to enarion.net and the timing until it appears within Google.
About the website - enarion.net
Just some short information about the website. The highest current public PR is 6, there are many ingoing links - with higher and lower PR. No special actions have been taken to get these done (no payed links, no link network, ...).
It's taking place in the Google Sitemaps program (since the beginning in June - but that doesn't matter).
Google crawls most of the website each day - but normally only the main pages.
All pages have Google Ads.
The timeline
The page contains an article that has been published on November, 23nd 2005 at 09:10 am CET. Afterwards the sitemaps file has been updated and Google has been forced to reload the changed Google xml sitemap file from the Google Sitemaps webmasters area. This took not longer than 5 minutes.
Google came and visited the webpage at 2005-11-23 09:28:46 from crawl-66-249-71-50.googlebot.com with a normal Googlebot - spider and at 2005-11-23 10:22:30 from crawl-66-249-64-7.googlebot.com - also with a normal Googlebot.
Than... nothing happened. Some normal visitors navigated to the page and visited it, but Google did nothing.
The next morning between 03:50 and 4:00 a.m. CET the page suddenly appeard at the serps. This is really fast, I would say - only about 18:50 to 19 hours.
Short version of timeline - time to get indexing
2005-11-23 09:10 webpage has been published
2005-11-23 09:15 Google sitemaps file has been generated, Google forced to reload it
2005-11-23 09:28 access from crawl-66-249-71-50.googlebot.com with Googlebot/2.1
2005-11-23 10:22 access from crawl-66-249-64-7.googlebot.com with Googlebot/2.1
2005-11-24 04:00 the webpage shows up at the serps and stays
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Sebastian wrote an article with a similar content: How long doese it take to get indexed by Google?
