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Search Engine Latency

Mar 13, 2009
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I'm curious how long it takes for content to show up in search engines. I'll use this post as a test case. The title and tags include "Search Engine Latency" and I'm curious how long it will take to show up in searches. I'll check Google and Yahoo and update this with results on occasion.

I did a brief search and found this:

Very few blogs are indexed daily. Not all blogs (or web sites) are indexed even weekly. Many SERP hits to our blogs may have been indexed months ago, and are alive in cache only.
Blogger, and other web site hosts, doesn't extract backlink data from the search engines every day either.
Each spider visit doesn't re index the entire blog. Many visits may just index the main page of the blog, with occasional visits following the archive and other sidebar links, and maybe the various text based internal links to other blog posts.

SERP is an acronym for search engine result page. Useful information, and the author of the blog talks about static and dynamic links and why some don't work, well worth a read. If his data is accurate it may take days for this blog to show up.

****** UPDATE ******
It showed up in 1 hour on Google, when I did a blog search with "virtualsound search engine latency" - pretty quick turn-around. After 6 hours there was still no sign of it on yahoo. I quit checking after that. Interestingly enough, after 4 days it was included on Yahoo as part of an aggregate of Vox technology posts, not as a separate item.