How long for google to recognise changes

[DiscoMagic]

Just picked up on this thread

Great advice Marc - thanks!

I was wondering though - if I make regular but small changes, does Google recognise this and crawl more often or do the changes have to be fairly significant???

Ralphy
Disco Magic
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[Tom]

Usually takes around a week for me.

[Marc J]

I was wondering though - if I make regular but small changes, does Google recognise this and crawl more often or do the changes have to be fairly significant???

Hard to say, really. A lot of web pages will change a little but without any real content change (for example, where there are random elements to a page, like banner ads or random quotes) so I'd assume Google will look for a more significant percentage change to justify more regular crawling.

Google Webmaster Tools will show you how regularly you are crawled so keep an eye on that and you'll find out

[gaza]

pop a link onto a social network site.

[CRAZY K]

As the title says...how long does it take for google to recognise SEO changes to your website?

Depends if the crawlers are on overtime

Generally seems to be every week or two (maximum)

Obviously there is a difference between changing a few details on your site which then gets transposed on to your google lineage on a search--- as opposed to people talking on this thread about their rankings which are a completelly different subject.

[Dynamic Entertainment]

Forgot about this thread. Time was about 10 days for me

[Marc J]

pop a link onto a social network site.

Ah, so that's how it's done

[CRAZY K]

Hard to say, really. A lot of web pages will change a little but without any real content change (for example, where there are random elements to a page, like banner ads or random quotes) so I'd assume Google will look for a more significant percentage change to justify more regular crawling.

Google Webmaster Tools will show you how regularly you are crawled so keep an eye on that and you'll find out

Dont like to contradict this BUT one or maybe two days ago I changed ONE word in the name of the htm file for index on one of my web sites--

Just checked and my friend Google Crawler has already changed it

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[Marc J]

I didn't say they wouldn't index small changes, I was refering to the crawl rate and how they decide how often to crawl your site, based on the frequency of past changes. You obviously made the change just before they came around

[CRAZY K]

I didn't say they wouldn't index small changes, I was refering to the crawl rate and how they decide how often to crawl your site, based on the frequency of past changes. You obviously made the change just before they came around

Yup Mr Crawler crawled along on the 13th March apparently.

Lucky as usual, Cortex, Peavey, Ford etc