How fast does Google index a link?

by JFVJ
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Hello everyone,

Just a quick question, if you ping and social bookmark a link how long does it take until Google indexes it? Hours, days, weeks?

thanks
Fabio

**EDITED** I am talking about forum profile links. My backlinks from these sources are taking ages to index. Question: Only indexed links count has backlinks?
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    It depends on the site. It could take minutes. It could take weeks.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      And....google may never index it.

      Oh. Don't post to google.

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      • Profile picture of the author Rache
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        And....google may never index it.

        Oh. Don't post to google.

        Paul
        are you serious? I thought that may hasten the indexing, oh my
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
      Originally Posted by tiptopmovie View Post

      post your site on google.com/addurl/
      That is horrible advice and a waste of time. That is intended to get a new site listed by simply adding domainname.com which basically informs their spiders to come 'check out our new site.' It is not intended to submit urls like: domainname.com/directory1/profiledirectory/profile?=123blahblahblah.php

      That is neither effective or necessary. The bottom line is many of those profiles will never get indexed, some will and some won't but it depends on a lot of factors. The deeper you have to click through the site to find the profile the less likely it is to get indexed as the spider will only crawl so deep, unless of course you are focusing attention on building up a bunch of backlinks to each of those profiles which in the long run would be very time consuming and not worth your time. Your time could be spent in much better ways to obtain links.
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      • Profile picture of the author ribas4
        Originally Posted by Peter Gregory View Post

        That is horrible advice and a waste of time. That is intended to get a new site listed by simply adding domainname.com which basically informs their spiders to come 'check out our new site.' It is not intended to submit urls like: domainname.com/directory1/profiledirectory/profile?=123blahblahblah.php

        That is neither effective or necessary. The bottom line is many of those profiles will never get indexed, some will and some won't but it depends on a lot of factors. The deeper you have to click through the site to find the profile the less likely it is to get indexed as the spider will only crawl so deep, unless of course you are focusing attention on building up a bunch of backlinks to each of those profiles which in the long run would be very time consuming and not worth your time. Your time could be spent in much better ways to obtain links.
        thanks for suggestion..
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        • Profile picture of the author peterdavid
          You may try add the url on google, it might speed up
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            Originally Posted by peterdavid View Post

            You may try add the url on google, it might speed up
            Nobody reads responses anymore?

            Come on people.

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            • Profile picture of the author abednego
              Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

              Nobody reads responses anymore?

              Come on people.

              Paul
              egh

              Reading is overrated.
              So is utilizing the search feature!
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      • Profile picture of the author JFVJ
        Originally Posted by Peter Gregory View Post

        Your time could be spent in much better ways to obtain links.
        When you say this what kind of backlinks are you talking about?

        Fabio
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  • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
    Indexing profile backlinks is a job in its self i have been obsessed with this for months now, buying all the softwear i can and doing all sorts of tricks even spinning articles adding a couple of the profile links to the bottom in the resource box and submitting them to article directorys to get the page found but this is very time consuming although works well for me. All i can say is that unless you take some serious steps to get them indexed more than 50% never will ! But i work very very hard to get my profiles indexed and can get about 40 out of 50 indexed in about 2-3 weeks but i have to out source the link building coz of the time i spend indexing them !
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    • Profile picture of the author ARVolund
      Seriously dude you need to think about automation. If you are spending more than an hour a day bookmarking your backlinks your are doing it way wrong.

      How many are you doing and how long does it take you?

      Richard

      Originally Posted by jimkirk1943 View Post

      Indexing profile backlinks is a job in its self i have been obsessed with this for months now, buying all the softwear i can and doing all sorts of tricks even spinning articles adding a couple of the profile links to the bottom in the resource box and submitting them to article directorys to get the page found but this is very time consuming although works well for me. All i can say is that unless you take some serious steps to get them indexed more than 50% never will ! But i work very very hard to get my profiles indexed and can get about 40 out of 50 indexed in about 2-3 weeks but i have to out source the link building coz of the time i spend indexing them !
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      • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
        Originally Posted by ARVolund View Post

        Seriously dude you need to think about automation. If you are spending more than an hour a day bookmarking your backlinks your are doing it way wrong.

        How many are you doing and how long does it take you?

        Richard
        I spend about 1 hour a day maybe two if i have just had a batch of 80 links built for me, Hey look its like this i see no point in out sourcing my profile links to be created if im not going to spend the time to get them indexed if you know a sure fire way of getting profile backlinks indexed i`m all ears like i say i can get about 80-85% of my backlinks indexed but it takes my time but... it only takes the same time most guys spend building them where as i out source this part. So i would really like to hear your automation way of indexing profile links as most marketers would agree this is not easy..
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        • Profile picture of the author ARVolund
          I run mine through four different processes. First I run them through BIE (you can find it in the WSO section) Not using the new version yet but I will probably be adding that to the mix as well when I get a chance. Then I add them to some mu blogs that I have and after that I have a couple of scripts I wrote that I run them through.

          Takes up to two hours for up to about 1k links. Setting up the mu blog posts takes the longest part of that as I have to set the links up in the articles.

          If you are doing 80 a day I would just try BIE. You will have to spend some time setting it up but once that is done you can do them in a few minutes a day no problem.

          Richard

          Originally Posted by jimkirk1943 View Post

          I spend about 1 hour a day maybe two if i have just had a batch of 80 links built for me, Hey look its like this i see no point in out sourcing my profile links to be created if im not going to spend the time to get them indexed if you know a sure fire way of getting profile backlinks indexed i`m all ears like i say i can get about 80-85% of my backlinks indexed but it takes my time but... it only takes the same time most guys spend building them where as i out source this part. So i would really like to hear your automation way of indexing profile links as most marketers would agree this is not easy..
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          • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
            Originally Posted by ARVolund View Post

            I run mine through four different processes. First I run them through BIE (you can find it in the WSO section) Not using the new version yet but I will probably be adding that to the mix as well when I get a chance. Then I add them to some mu blogs that I have and after that I have a couple of scripts I wrote that I run them through.

            Takes up to two hours for up to about 1k links. Setting up the mu blog posts takes the longest part of that as I have to set the links up in the articles.

            If you are doing 80 a day I would just try BIE. You will have to spend some time setting it up but once that is done you can do them in a few minutes a day no problem.

            Richard
            Thanks for that advice Richard, Well i am already using BIE i have it running on 3 urls i also use Steve Hawkins Indexer along with other things i use. I can see you can upload loads of your urls `1k` as i can also add a fair few of mine but again i still belive that even using methods like BIE it is still very hard to get all the profile pages indexed which is why i take the time to make sure i get nearly all of them indexed i hate the idea of paying someone to build me profile pages and i not get every one indexed.
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            • Profile picture of the author paulgl
              A lot of advice here, some iffy, some "okay."

              People should know that if you must somehow make your
              links known to google, then they aren't worth much to
              begin with, are they? I have never ever had any such thought
              that I need to any such thing.

              Too many people are hung up on the number of backlinks.

              Paul
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              • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
                Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

                A lot of advice here, some iffy, some "okay."

                People should know that if you must somehow make your
                links known to google, then they aren't worth much to
                begin with, are they? I have never ever had any such thought
                that I need to any such thing.

                Too many people are hung up on the number of backlinks.

                Paul
                I think there is more than one way to google serp success.

                Its clear you have both experience and success doing what you do, how you do it. However, there are several people doing almost the polar opposites of how you "do your thang" and "currently" achieving results, good results... Rankings wise.

                I see little difference in this strategy than doing keyword density checking and good On Page SEO. I mean ... writers like to just write and put their thoughts down as they flow... those arent always in the optimum format for googles algo - so people All Day - Every Day - Every Year -go back thru their content with a fine tooth comb and tweak it for Google. Adding in keywords - removing them. Naming images with their KW phrases. Putting certain phrases in H1 tags, adjusting hte meta tags - all in order to help google fall in love with their page. chasing after Long Tail Keywords.

                Whats the difference between doing all that gyration around "quality content" to help google bot fall in love with your content, than it is to help google bot find and fall in love with your BACKLINKS?

                that said ...

                one's goal for your backlinks - is to not merely just get them "indexed" - but into googles cached page index.

                there are several ways to help this along on its merry way - and a powerful new one .... that works rather well will be here soon. Best part its as easy as installing a WP blog - a plug in and pasteing in a a few urls!!!
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                • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
                  Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

                  there are several ways to help this along on its merry way - and a powerful new one .... that works rather well will be here soon. Best part its as easy as installing a WP blog - a plug in and pasteing in a a few urls!!!
                  Wow well come on then please tell me more !
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                • Profile picture of the author paulgl
                  Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

                  I see little difference in this strategy than doing keyword density checking and good On Page SEO. I mean ... writers like to just write and put their thoughts down as they flow... those arent always in the optimum format for googles algo - so people All Day - Every Day - Every Year -go back thru their content with a fine tooth comb and tweak it for Google. Adding in keywords - removing them. Naming images with their KW phrases. Putting certain phrases in H1 tags, adjusting hte meta tags - all in order to help google fall in love with their page. chasing after Long Tail Keywords.
                  That my friend, is exactly what I don't preach and neither does google.

                  Over and over google will tell you to stop trying to fool them and concentrate
                  on providing a valuable user experience. Does google err in their results?
                  Of course. But a parlor trick is no proof. Google is not perfect and never can
                  be.

                  Speaking of images, the "google" way is naming an image exactly what it is.
                  If it is the image of the navigation menu, call it navigation. But people refuse
                  and think google says something else. They don't. So they call the navigation
                  image studentloan.jpg and think somehow google wants this. Then their page
                  is crap, nowhere on google, and they blame google. The blame needs to be on
                  people who promote voodoo SEO.

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                  • Profile picture of the author JFVJ
                    How do you get PR01+ backlinks? As i told before i am a newbie when it comes to buiding backlinks, so here is how i get my backlinks:

                    Forum signatures
                    Forum profiles
                    Posting articles to several article directories
                    Building hub and squidoo pages

                    ALL of these give me backlinks unranked, and when they are ranked they will probably be PR0.

                    Can anyone please explain how do you get PR1+?

                    thank you very much
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  • Profile picture of the author maingi
    Hello,

    Googlebot finds and retrieves pages on the web and give them off to the Google indexer.
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  • It depends on content of your site and domain age as well as page rank of site.
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    • Profile picture of the author xnice
      Originally Posted by webdevelopmentcompany View Post

      It depends on content of your site and domain age as well as page rank of site.
      You are correct. And some sites who Google love them, this will index within few hours as Xomba, HubPages.
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  • Profile picture of the author poker princess
    To get fast index by Google you need social bookmarking. I hope you are also using Google Webmaster Tool to submit your sitemap. It will index your web pages very fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    How fast does Google index a link?
    Anywhere from a few minutes to never.

    Google might be good at indexing a site, but its not perfect. If google has not indexed the page that has the link, it will not find the link.

    Example - I know of some forums that have more then 75,000 threads, but only have 2,000 pages indexed with google. That means the forum has 73,000 unidexed threads. If you have a link in one of those threads, its not likely to be found. I have a signature link on such a site - the links are 4+ years old, and have yet to be found by google. I know they have not been found because their not in my google webmaster tools.

    If you want to know if your links are being indexed, sign up for a google webamster tools account, and check your backlinks. You can also use this to test how fast certain sites are indexed. Post a link, and check your webmaster tools daily to see if its been indexed.

    Yahoo site explorer is another good tool to see if a link has been indexed - but my yahoo instead of google.
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    • Profile picture of the author T.T.
      Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

      If you want to know if your links are being indexed, sign up for a google webamster tools account, and check your backlinks. You can also use this to test how fast certain sites are indexed. Post a link, and check your webmaster tools daily to see if its been indexed.

      Yahoo site explorer is another good tool to see if a link has been indexed - but my yahoo instead of google.
      They will show you only some part of backlinks they will never show you all of them. Which percent, only they knows.

      -Tom.
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  • Profile picture of the author CJ.Online
    Haha,

    With Google, you honestly never know. I've had pages added to Google within a matter of 5 minutes and then other times I've had pages added to Google within a matter of weeks.

    There's a complicated algorithm behind how frequently Google will index a page on a site, and then how frequently Google will take a look at the site's that page is linking to.

    So my personal advice is not to stress over when your page gets indexed. There's no point.
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  • Profile picture of the author cassey
    It's depends on content of your site.
    the site that is possible to indexed immediately are those being created with HTML coding, so if your website is good to that you don't need to be feel hassle. And then subit your website on the other site with the highest PR and a do follow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaunman
    Yes it really depends. Big sites like the warriorforum.com with lots of added content takes less then 30 seconds, I tested this. But sites that sit in cyberspace, um, never.
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  • Profile picture of the author inspiro
    My sites have sometimes been indexed within minutes.
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  • Profile picture of the author va_mom
    I thought it is normal for a site to be indexed for about 1 to 3 weeks... but i have not yet experienced being indexed within minutes. May i know your technique? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author intesols
    It is depend upon the site where you bookmarked your site. Most of reputed sites like stubleupon,Twitter, digg takes 2-3 days to index it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bharathipriya
    If your website is less competitive, user friendly and gains more traffic, it will get indexed easily. rather, to aquire the search position, you need to get more backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author linkswap
    To have a site indexed quickly by a search engine, it's really necessary to submit site url as well as its sitemap in search engine webmaster tool and also it's necessary to get quick good backlink from good relevant site which is almost always indexed by search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author adelainewatson
    It depends on the bookmarking site, the higher the PR the greater the chance. It may take days or even months.
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    • Profile picture of the author itsinthere
      why does google index my disclaimer page faster than other pages with a bounch of content on it? its a new site but.... that just dont seem right. I have many pages that are not indexed that have lots of content and my disclaimer page gets indexed before them?
      i just recently created a robots file and disallow /disclaimer.html page.....
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  • Profile picture of the author shafiqwork
    According to google forum it crawl a website or a link with in 24 hour to 1 week. But I dont think this is true as my site still not crawl by google for last one month.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinarnold
    This is very simple. Regardless of the type of site (html, flash, CMS or PHP), you want Google to index your pages because that's the only way you can be visible for a search query on Google. The best way to do this is submitting a sitemap to Google through Google Webmaster Central. Get data about crawling, indexing and search traffic. Increase traffic to your site.


    Page Title" being the most important factor, these 3 elements used to be the backbone of SEO in the late 90s, and they still have a lot of weight on the Google Algorithm. You can see the title of a page on top of a browser (IE or Firefox) as seen in the image below.
    The title on this page is "Internet Marketing Articles and Resources". It defines what the contents of the page are about. Pay extra attention to the fact that the title does not begin with our company name "Optimum7". A lot of websites and companies make this mistake of placing their names at the beginning of a page title on every single page on their sites. This is incorrect. The page title should begin with what that specific page is about. (The term or keyword you are targeting)
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  • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
    First it's depend upon the website then it's also depend upon how much backlinks you create for your website
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  • Profile picture of the author cheaterscode
    it defends where your links came from.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunedat
    I try to put links to my site on high traffic sites, like warrior forum. It tends to get indexed quicker that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author joesmith1608
    It depends on these
    Quality of content,PR of site where you posting,also quality of site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
      At the end of the day the only person that could give you that answer is the one person who won’t and that is “Google”.

      My advice is be patient when waiting for a site to get indexed in Google, do not kick up a fuss as it will do no good – Simply put a Billion dollar company will index a site when they are ready to and not before.

      Use the tools they give in Webmaster tools such as site verification and sitemap submission and you won’t go far wrong.

      Of note is a forum with 30l pages is only likely to have 10% of pages indexed, so do not worry if all your site is not indexed
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      • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
        Ping it, then social bookmark it. That's all there is to it really. Use a service like Automated Submission to Social Media Sites | OnlyWire to do this. I've had pages indexed in a matter of hours by doing this.

        The downside is that you're cluttering the social bookmarking sites with junk. I'm pretty sure Digg users don't care about your new forum profile backlink. So technically this method is "greyhat" IMO.
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