Still As Life

I have been noticing over the past few days that Google has been indexing my blog within a few hours of my posting. I just Googled for my last blog post and it's not there yet, so it clearly isn't quite instantaneous. However, for a website that is frequently being updated, an index update thats only an hour or two old is clearly quite beneficial for everyone involved.

I had noticed how quick it was updating a few days ago. It was just today that I saw a blog post by Brendon Sinclair on Tailored Consulting about Blogger posts getting indexed almost instantly.

While the circumstances are slightly different and Tailored.com.au clearly has a higher pagerank than Stillaslife.com as well as no doubt getting many more pageviews and so on. Brendon also keeps the blog updated even more frequently than I update mine, so automatically it should be getting crawled more frequently than mine. However I thought I would check this anyway just out of curiousity.

Tailored.com.au has been crawled since his post 4 hours ago. I would like to watch this more closely and see if his website is in fact being crawled as quickly as it seems. As Brendon mentioned in his blog, even if it is only Blogger that is being indexed so quickly at the moment, if Google has found a way to effectively index websites, even within a couple of hours, this really puts them even further out in front of all the other search engines.

I have noticed it has been over the past couple of weeks that the speed has really increased so I wonder if it is something to do with Google's last major algorithm change. I am interested to see if the same thing is occurring on Wordpress and other blogging systems.

As I write this, I have also done a quick search, and now at 3:22, the blog post that was used as a test for this purpose by Brendon is number one when you search Google for "Raymond F. Sinclair".

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