Google has my link page indexed, how long before they crawl the link?

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I have four sites that are not currently indexed. They've been live for a few weeks now. All sites are in google webmaster with sitemaps.

Yesterday, I was able to post links to all these sites on active forums in my signature file. I linked them like so...

My Sig File:
My stuff > thing 1 > thing 2 > thing 3

You might not be able to tell at first glance, but in the example above, all of the ">" characters are linked to a site. This is where I put my site links.

Now I know that google has indexed the pages containing the signatures, since I did a search and see the actual posts I made there in google, complete with the sig. However, the sites are still not indexed. Does this mean they have not been crawled?

Does google bot immediately crawl all links (except no follows) that it finds, even on forum posts? If so, does it take a while for these sites to appear in the main index?
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    I've had new sites show up in a day and others take weeks... sites with absolutely no backlinks and no content other than the default wordpress 'hello world' post have been indexed while other sites that I'm trying to build up take forever... google is just like that.

    It's like backlinks, some show up right away and others show up months later.

    Some guys are really good at fast indexing, maybe one of them will pop in with some suggestions.

    Try some additional social bookmarks, digg and the rest. Create enough roads to your sites and the search spiders are going to find their way eventually.
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  • Profile picture of the author kira178
    no, after update some month ago, google craw is very fast but indexed is still low
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew O
    Sometimes it just depends. When I have a new site I will social bookmark it with a few dofollow sites, maybe post it in a forum signature and get some articles submitted to the directories right away. Usually it doesn't take more than a week before they're indexed. Do you have any other links besides forum signatures? You may want to find a few more backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author AJsVRE
    Originally Posted by clickbump View Post

    I have four sites that are not currently indexed. They've been live for a few weeks now. All sites are in google webmaster with sitemaps.
    For what it's worth, I always make sure google finds my site first before I claim it in webmaster tools or put a sitemap on it. It was something I had read previously and have just been following. It's worked out so far, It hasn't taken more than a few days at most to index my sites.

    Have you built any standard links to those sites? By standard, I mean not in forums like you described in your initial post.

    When I start a new site, here's what I usually do:

    1- ping it at pingomatic (yes, I ping non-blog, plain html sites)
    2- build a few links from Angela's backlink packet. Not too many, and usually it's just one site that works well for me. (although I've done 3 when first starting as the most). -- Ping that backlink page using pingomatic
    3- do the alexa trick (I'll explain below)

    That's it. That's usually good enough for me, and sometimes I'm indexed in a few hours, sometimes 2 days.

    The "alexa trick" is typing the following into your url bar and hitting enter: (obviously replace "yourdomain" with your actual domain)
    Code:
    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/       yourdomain.com      (take out that space.. I don't know why, but it keeps messing up the link otherwise)
    http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=yourdomain.com
    You'll get a bunch of Amazon bots hitting you up for doing that (Amazon owns Alexa I think?) and they are kind of annoying, but whatever, it gets me indexed quick.
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  • Profile picture of the author Louise Green
    If you add too many backlinks too soon it can actually slow down indexing and ranking.

    Also if you're adding multiple keyword rich anchor text links to the same page in the same sig, Google will determine that natural linking isn't done like that and may not pay as much attention to your site as you need, only one link is needed per sig, anymore than that to the same page and Google will suspect an SEO strategy is at play.
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  • Profile picture of the author sanjid112
    I just used blog and ping and some single sig in the forum i joined that fit to my targeted costumer and it begin to index in google.

    And I also use alexa, and it is worth to try, since mine is working well.
    But, yes, sometimes it takes a month or more to make it indexing in google.
    That's question, I do not why, but maybe what lovelylou write above me, google suspect it as SEO strategy.
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