Google’s speedy indexing of blogs
Darren Rowse posted this morning about the speed of Google indexing blogs. Indexing just means Google saving a blog post on Google servers and making it available in search results on a relevant search.
Darren found it took just 20 minutes for a recent post of his to show up on Google. Decided to test it out myself.
I posted on the 'State of UK law blogs' about a half hour ago. Just went to Google and searched for state of UK law blogs. Here's the #1 result.
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Not too shabby.
For the InjuryBoard.com bloggers, we've been noticing almost instant (well, just a matter of hours) indexing on Google News for several months now. We have also been seeing this quick indexing on the general Google SERPs.
It's almost like having an instant press release jump right to the first page of Google. This really argues for thoughtful headlines and thoughtful posts, doesn't it?
Good point, that being the use of good titles for your blog posts.
Not just for Google though. Power users of your blog content, bloggers and the media, and often more important than your prospective clients, need clear titles for the RSS feeds in their newsreaders.