Brian Kelly wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Brian Kelly wrote:
> >
> > | One way of finding out how long it takes to index your site
> > might be
> > | to create a page containing a unique string of characters, link the
> > | page into your site, and then see how long it takes to appear on
> > | Google.
> >
> > The trouble with this is that it will probably never index
> > it, unless it's linked to from other pages. Google doesn't
> > rank pages that aren't linked to. I once had an entire site
> > up that was completely ignored until it was 'launched' and
> > other sites began to link to it. Then it appeared in the
> > searches after about two days.
> >
>
> Surely it will index the page when it finds it. It only uses the
> numbers of links in order to establish its position on the hit list. If
> you use a unique string it will be the only page found, so the nos. of
> links are irrelevant.
>
> So the page will be treated the same as any other new page your Web
> site.
Indeed it will, and if that new page is not linked from any other
page, then the search engine will never find it in all eternity...
Which is, I think, the very point that Kat was making.
Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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