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How do you know if a page is indexed often by Google?

by 3afash
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How do you know whether a page is indexed often by google or not being indexed that frequently?
#google #indexed #page
  • Profile picture of the author Oconnor1
    If you put the domain name in quotes in a google search it will show you all the sites linking back to you, seo articles and everything else. Not sure if that is exactly what your answering but I know on a new site or blog I do this often to make sure my article posting is getting indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author KenThompson
    Do you mean being crawled by Google? Take a look at your weblog stats
    in your hosting account, usually awstats, and you can see what bots/spiders
    are crawling your site and how often.

    I'm sure others have more knowledge about bots/spiders, but you can see
    their activity on your site in that manner.

    Ken
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  • Profile picture of the author John Alves
    I just click the cache of the homepage in the index or of other pages on the site. The indexed date does not matter much. It depends on how often the site is updated with new content. It also depeends on the authority of the site. If you get backlinks often, your site is going to get indexed more frequently. There is an option in Google webmasters tools where you can change the cache frequency.

    In Google Webmaster Tools:

    1) Click on Site Configuration
    2) Click Settings
    3) Go to Crawl Rate
    4) Select "Set custom crawl rate"

    You can speed up the crawl rate in there. I wouldn't recommend doing it unless you really want to because I feel like the Googlebot knows how often a site should be crawled.

    By creating more content and getting more backlinks, your index speed is going to go up automatically anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrmagos
    As Ken said, if you're the site owner, you can look at your stats (awstats, apache logs, etc.) to see how often the GoogleBot hits your site. I'm not sure there's a way to find out how often it crawls another person's site - at least not easily. One thing we do know about the GoogleBot is that it will tend to crawl pages with fewer slashes in their URLs more often - meaning a site's home page will be crawled, and therefore changes indexed, more often than sub-sections or pages deep within the site's structure. However, that's only one factor - PageRank and backlinks also figure in to how often a site gets indexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author FredJones
      For your own site - the question is already answered by the others.

      But for other's sites, I do not know. If you really want to look for a few pages, say one or two competitor page, one simple way could be to keep looking at the site's cached page (Google site:yourcompetitorsite.tld and use the "cached" link) and keep looking at the dates. While this is not a scalable solution but it still may work with a bit of tedium devoted for a page or two for all practical purposes.
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  • Profile picture of the author hendricius
    You can check the cache of the page by adding "cache:" before the page url for the last crawled information
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