HOW TO REINDEX YOUR WEBSITE QUICKLY IN A SEARCH ENGINE

Paul Evison 15th March 2007

I have a problem.

"Obviously", as anyone who knows me is probably saying. But for once I’m not talking about my lack of girlfriend or money.

No, I have a problem common to many owners of websites. Just how do you get your website re-indexed by a search engine quickly? This process, left to its own devices, can sometimes take 3 - 6 months…

What is a Search Engine's Index?
A search engine will store a copy of your website in what's known as its index. Often its index will become out of date, holding old information, until it visits your website again and re-indexes your website.

Our client, Allstores Clothing, have this exact problem and I need to get their website re-indexed as quickly as I can so that some improvements we've made to the website, are reflected by the search engines.

What could we do?

Unfortunately we can't actually just demand that Google or Yahoo do what we say, when we say it. But one good way to speed this process up is to put a link (or a number of them) to the website in question, on another website that we know is trusted and frequently visited by the search engines.

In theory, the search engine will follow the link, find the new website (and new content) and add it to its index forthwith. Problem solved.

Hmmmmm, where could we find such a website? It’s not easy to source good links…

Ingeniously, as you may have already guessed, for Allstores Clothing I've decided to write an article about this problem, specifically referring to our client (with the all important link), and place it on our website (you’re reading it now).

Our website is trusted by Google and other search engines and we are visited and re-indexed on an almost daily basis. Therefore, by writing this article, I’m hoping that this is a quick and relatively easily solution to our original problem.

Today’s moral

This is just one of the ways in which we work for our clients. Sometimes there are no quick or easy answers to get what you want, but with a bit of clever thinking, we’ll find a solution for you.

Notes and Queries...

Great article,

Like the fact that you explained it and demonstrated it all in one. Great job. Our website, www.homesourcecustomhomes.com gets indexed every 3-4 days. My boss wants it to happen more but doesn't quite understand that we can't force google to do anything. Do you know if there is any official google documentation that states this as a fact?
Nathan Veer 10th September 2008
Hi Nathan

I think the closest thing you can find is in the Google support documentation, here.

There's not much more to go on, but there is a line in there about how you can't pay Google to spider your site faster, and to explain that spidering is just an automated process that can't be tweaked in individual circumstances.

Thanks for the feedback anyway - and I hope this helps!
Paul Carpenter 10th September 2008
Hmm, this is a good idea. For quite a while I just had a logo and 'Coming Soon' text on our domain, www.mirbit.com , while the site was being developed. We launched the site last week, and we have been trying to improve our SEO. Even with that 'coming soon' page up for so long, Google hasn't indexed us. MSN has, but the listing just shows the 'coming soon' text as the description, and hasn't been replaced/reindexed with the new content yet. I've submitted the url to each, along with sitemaps...but haven't made any progress. After reading this article, I'll definitely be trying to get some links on other pages to our site to try to speed up the process.

Thanks for the article! p.s. you should post an updated to this article, recapping the amount of success you had with this technique.
mark 1st October 2008
I've got a similar problem with www.rockymountains.com
I'm working on it and trying many options. The site has been revised and is in develpment. It has a long way to go but it keeps it alive and visitors from all over the world. www.rockymountains.com is a top name and sends visitors to many sites of interest.
Alan 14th October 2008
It is frustrating. I reworked my entire site www.sierrastitch.com and Google is still showing the old content. This is a nice solution. I have read that the more links your have out there the faster you get re indexed. Thanks for this.
Jim Schuett 7th November 2008
same problem i am having with my new site updates at http://www.tmc.edu.sg sheesh ....
BBC 20th November 2008
My wife and I just rolled a new site about a week ago ( www.the-savvy-woman.com ).

We placed a blog template with a few minor changes to it and before we could fully implement the new site Google came along and index the one page template.

We are now waiting for Google to re-index the site. I am glad I happened upon this blog, I am going to try to the things you mentioned. Thanks for your help!

Johnny
www.the-savvy-woman.com
www.collegetidbits.com
www.johnzpchut.com
Johnny 5th December 2008
We have a similar problem with www.northwestmobility.com

We have submitted sitemaps, robots.txt files, etc. and still nothing after 2 months. Very frustrating!
Steve 9th December 2008
I need markgillespie.net reindexed. It hasn't updated in 5 days - oh no!
Andrew Felton 10th December 2008
I was having the same problem at first. I believe what you are saying is to creat a gateway page. I have created such a page to help others to see how one is made. If you go to: http://snappybidders.com/snappyresults.htm you can see how I created it.
Stephen 14th December 2008
I love reading al the information you have published for SEO. but....I have a question. I just started a handcrafted jewelry site www.cynfullyunique.com How do I know if it's being indexed. It appears, when I check my pages visited and people visisted that google bot has a lot of viists. I try to up-date it with new jewelry every two days. And is it good and what does it mean that google is visiting my pages often. My site is relatively new....2 months and I really need to get it ranked so I can sell some of my jewelry, etc.
Cyndi 1st January 2009
Hi Cyndi

You're going to find the same thing that a lot of people find when chasing rankings. Firstly, the hand-crafted jewellery market is very competitive because a lot of people are using the internet as their primary route to market - compared to selling at markets and craft fairs there's a potentially massive audience. That gives Google a big headache, because there are a million sites out there competing for its attention.

Secondly, much of what determines their rankings comes from the history of the domain. If you've been going a long time, it says to Google that the business is well-established and therefore probably has a decent offering. Any brand new domain is going to struggle to get anywhere near the top of the rankings in the short term unfortunately. It's encouraging that Google is at least spidering and indexing your site, but you will have to do a *lot* of work in terms of content and link building to see returns in terms of rankings.
Paul Carpenter 2nd January 2009
Our site was/is very static in many fashions. We have done some extinsive SEO on it and major infrastructure changes. I have investigated pinging the site as this will begin the prosess of associating the redirects or new pages.
also setting the cache of the page is a good trick.
Here is our online pharmacy site as of today.
www.universaldrugstore.com
What about pinging the site 7th January 2009
I've got a similar problem with www.proximo-destino.com and www.proximo-destino.com.ar
I'm working on it and trying many options. The site has been revised and is in development. Hope this works. Thanks
Maximiliano 20th January 2009
I have been looking for a quick google re-indexing solution also for our price comparison site www.simplyaffiliates.co.uk.

We have only just come out of google sandbox and due to an update on our site the dynamic content, i.e. URL address, of which 25,000 where in google index, are now all incorrect and we are getting lots of hits to our www.simplyaffiliates.co.uk website and we need to get google to re-index via a new sitemap which we have created but Google now only wants to index only a few URL's from the new sitemap.

Any ideas ?

Ms Julie Gibbins
webmaster
http://www.simplyaffiliates.co.uk

Ms Julie Gibbins 29th January 2009
I am experiencing the same problem with a website with illustrations we are working on,
http://www.rithuset.se
we made loads of changes with content structure, title, headings, content, meta data etc. but so far Google hasn't re-indexed the page... very frustrating.
Kristoffer 4th February 2009
I have the same problem with my site http://www.announceall.net
2-G inc 13th February 2009
I have the same problem with http://www.oceansidejc.org/rebmark/5766/1_01_Bereshit.htm
Smith 17th February 2009
I have the same issue where I am changing my site and the home page just goes back to Googles homepage when clicked on
www.freightquote4u.com gets some traffic from out customers but I will need it to be re indexed quickly.
Thanks for the info in this blog.
K Levine 2nd March 2009
You may not know this, but I am trying to get the answer: how often do "people" search engines like spock.com and pipl.com reindex? Obviously this information would be of some use for people who are "cleaning" up their online garbage.Thanks!
Curious 12th March 2009
Ahhhhh, still a very useful post. I'll keep this is mind with my site www.theoldappleyard.co.uk

Will hopefully get some traffic v. soon!!
Taylor 16th March 2009
Great article. I need more traffic too.

http://www.quickly.com.ph/
http://fatboyspizza.com.ph/

mariano Sayno 18th March 2009
I guess we are all in the same boat,,,
I will there is a button that we can press on google to re-index our sites
I did major changes to my website and still google has left me behind
www.oghnia.com

google doesn't pick us up at all
Faycal 19th March 2009
i'm trying to get my website http://techmagazine.eu to get re-indexed but i'm still waiting, thks for the tip
Ghassi 25th March 2009
I di a few changes to my website to make it more specific to people searching for electricians in accrington as at the moment it genralises to large an area and as such is way down the search pages, hopefully my website http://www.electriciansdirect.org.uk will get done soon.
Daniel 25th March 2009
I am facing the same problem not only with google but also with yahoo and msn for our company's website www.indiansmelting.com
the site has been updated long back, but these search engine still shows old pages.

Mehul Parekh
www.indiansmelting.com
Mehul Parekh 26th March 2009
Yet another one with the same problem! www.starfishbooks.co.uk has been all reworked wit new meta tags and page titles. Just waiting now for the reindex!#
Perry 29th March 2009
My question is, how do I know when my page http://www.moderndayscribe.com has been indexed? Thank you.
M.J. 29th March 2009
I just rebuilt www.silicondesigns.com and will be praying to the search engine gods to index it.
Kati 31st March 2009
My website www.jtimages.com hasn't been reindexed for a long time now. I hope it does soon.
Joe Trzepla 2nd April 2009
Same issue here!!!

http://www.in-ventiv.nl
Avsomeren 3rd April 2009
Same problem here http://www.swailes.com
admin 3rd April 2009
good advice

http://www.noticiasdetoluca.com.mx
Noticias de Toluca 4th April 2009
Wow! I had no idea there would be so many people with the same SEO problem. The site I just over-hauled, www.hastingsfitness.com, is still way out of date in the Google and Yahoo chached versions. At least I am not the only one frustrated by this problem.
Jay Scott 7th April 2009
Excellent - and true - we usually link to our client's sites in our portfolio once it's complete, and Google finds them damn fast!

Of course, making sure that old pages no longer exist, but that their URLs 301 redirect to the new URL is important - Google already knows where you old pages are/were, so use that history to push and promote the new stuff!

Interesting site, keep up the good work.

From Jack Bremer, a competitor in Battersea, London!
http://www.3bweb.com
Jack Bremer 7th April 2009
Thanks! I was wondering how to get the keywords on my site http://zephyrusmassage.com/ reindexed, this is good information. :)
Chris Vaughn 13th April 2009
Good idea, think I'm going to need to post more around:

http://www.inspiringbirths.com
Tom Gardiner 13th April 2009
We have the same problem over at http://geekhack.org .

geekhack.org just went through a forum software migration...so all the search results are now bogus.

Hopefully, google and yahoo will reindex http://geekhack.org quickly!
iMav 15th April 2009
Interesting idea.

http://www.bvinetworks.com
-WM 27th April 2009
Same problem, Google index our site at http://www.esmokeshop.co.uk when we had a "coming soon" page up. Its been 2 weeks, hopefully they'll pick it up soon.
Jason 1st May 2009
Thanks had same problem!

Http://www.penri-williams.com
Kyle 14th May 2009
I rebuilt www.e-phorum.net (PR 2) 2 weeks ago and google dosent reindex the forum :(
Florin 16th May 2009
Really liked your article I happy someone finally got there site back. Very in genus on your article plan. Good for you.

http://www.poolcleanerscheap.com
Mike 26th May 2009
Liked the article was wondering if anybody could come up with a good idea how to get reindexed. I think you just came up with one. I'm sure allstores colthing thanks you. Here is hoping I get lucky to

http://www.webkinbargains.com
lavmljl 26th May 2009
A great idea! Thanks very much for the article.

http://www.bettacomputers.com.au
4th June 2009
Same problem here. Thanks for this!

http://www.skincenternj.com
Chris 9th June 2009
Search engines need to have a more a effective method of re-indexing quickly.

Http://www.remailables.com
DC 10th June 2009
Thanks for the info. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

http://www.discover-alicante.com
kathy 13th June 2009
Nevertheless thanks for the info. My sites are www.rons.biz and www.politoeren.com
Yep, same here 18th June 2009
I have the same problem too. I registered a domain http://www.help4shoppers.com about six months back but I did not use it immediately and just left it there because my girlfriend was busy. She plans to use this domain to host her shopping guide and shopping tips forum. Shopping is an obsession of her's and believe me, she's really good at it. I did a site: but google came up empty, so it looks like my domain got de-indexed because I left it empty for too long?
JohnnyB 24th June 2009
Thanks, let me see if this works for me...

http://www.joshuahowden.com
Charles Howden 27th June 2009
I have the same problem with a site I have done updates to a while back: http://www.Floridamlsconnect.com
www.floridamlsconnect.com and so far it is taking a bit of time for the site to become reindexed. Hopefully we will find a solution soon.
Jon 29th June 2009
Let's see if this helps with the problem i have been having.

http://www.atomsolutions.org

Sorry for spamming site
Adam 30th June 2009
I think you are right Paul about reindexing. Effectively, good links are the first step to this goal.

I have the same problem with this value site:

http://www.referencefatburner.com/
Georges Junior 3rd July 2009
 
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