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Indexing problem please help

by FaisalKhan
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The new posts of my site used to get indexed instantly, but about 36 hours ago, I published a post, but it is not indexed yet! I published another post 5 hours ago, but not indexed yet. Webmaster tool shows 106 submitted, 102 indexed.

Any probable reason and solution will be appreciated.

I am using 3.4 WordPress instead of 3.5. Also, installed W3 total cache plugin recently.
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  • Profile picture of the author larryboy03
    I wouldn't worry to much it just takes time sometimes, also make sure you submit a sitemap once a week.
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    • Profile picture of the author FaisalKhan
      I use plugin called Google XML Sitemaps for submitting sitemaps. Any better suggestion?
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  • Profile picture of the author aceshigh888
    It's crazy how fast those things go on google I posted something on here asking a question. Then maybe waited or was busy for a very short time. Then I continued the search for my question on google and low and behold there was my post on here! I was like "that's nuts!".
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Well, I doubt google was searching everywhere all the time. I bet what happens with the instant indexing is that they hit a site that is ****NOT**** warriorforum, and a new page or changed page references a page on this site and they index it. The spider logic should be some of the oldest, and lowest level code, since it is the only way to find ages that haven't been submitted in some way. Anyway, that is somewhat random. It DOES, however, mean that more popular sites are more likely to be indexed often because more sites will reference them.

    BTW it is unreasonable to just EXPECT that a free site, that is looking at BILLIONS of pages, is going to happen across your site in 5 hours. There has to be some TRIGGER, because time just doesn't cut it. Google has a LOT of triggers they can use now. Spidering, google searches, submissions, adwords, gmail, chrome, that toolbar they have, other sites they own, etc... If they used all that and you had a popular site, they could come around a LOT. Of course, I don't know what all the triggers are, or which ones they use. I only know of some, know they use certain ones, may use others, and can't be expected to monitor everything on the internet. IMAGINE a 3 character change you make changes a page, that has 100K of data on it. That is NOT unrealistic. IMAGINE if they polled billions of pages like that to find changes like yours. Everyone would be asking for them to be shut down. But a spike every now and then at random spots is something people would figure they could live with, and smaller sites might not even notice.

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    • Profile picture of the author Haroon Ballim
      Posts published on the warrior forum or other high traffic sites will often get indexed much faster because of the authority they carry.

      From what you say is that posts that you normally publish on your blog usually gets indexed much quicker than your last two posts. Index times tend to vary but if it is way out of line from the index times you normally achieve , ping those posts again .

      If you are running off wordpress in your admin panel go to 'Settings" >>> "Writing" . At the bottom of that screen you will see ''Update Services " When you publish a post wordpress automatically advises the following services ' . Ensure that that field is populated with a number of ping and update services urls . That will help your posts getting picked up by Google faster .

      Remember not to over ping as you wouldnt want to be flagged as a ping spammer
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Haroon Ballim View Post

        Remember not to over ping as you wouldnt want to be flagged as a ping spammer
        So what frequency would be considered spamming? I mean even every 5 hours sounds like TOO MUCH!

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  • Profile picture of the author monkseo
    Originally Posted by FaisalKhan View Post

    The new posts of my site used to get indexed instantly, but about 36 hours ago, I published a post, but it is not indexed yet! I published another post 5 hours ago, but not indexed yet. Webmaster tool shows 106 submitted, 102 indexed.

    Any probable reason and solution will be appreciated.

    I am using 3.4 WordPress instead of 3.5. Also, installed W3 total cache plugin recently.
    whoa whoa - slow down there skipper!

    it takes time.

    1. when you make a post, its just post - google doesn't need to index it ever.
    2. if you are an established site, they should get indexed sometime soon, if they are good content, 100% unique.
    3. did you update your sitemap & resubmit it?
    4. did you send out any manual pings?
    5. is your google author rich snippets installed?
    6. have you social bookmarked the new post yet to create some backlinks to it? and ping those backlinks? my special cheap secret sauce to get things indexed fast or if I have an issues is Onlywire
    7. whats the url of your post? whats your site? I would like to check it out.
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