Watch how Google indexes your site.
If you saw my short cryptic post yesterday about Enrico Altavilla this is the follow up to it. IN today’s show I have been messing around with a technique that he recently wrote about. It’s not only a bit of fun but quite useful as well.
Index me “Any time”
As Enrico pointed out in his excellent post on his G+ profile (I’ve since gone looking for the link but can’t find it. Good one Google) you can further refine the results you get when using the site: search feature. Warning you may find this a little addictive if you are the slightest bit geeky.
When using site: search use the sort by time drop down menu to see what Google has recently indexed on your site. Remember as I point out in today’s video, indexing is not the same as crawling. Google may crawl thousands of pages on your site but index none.
Google will only index the page if it is new and re-index if the the page if the content has changed. You can also use this tool to see what sites Google is actively indexing in your space. If you are looking at a local audience simply do a site:au search with a key phrase to see what has been most recently indexed in your area of interest.
Jim’s been here for a while, you know who he is.
