Timeline for Google shows wrong results for site domain search
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| Aug 14, 2012 at 13:31 | comment | added | Anand | Thanks a lot for the clear information, It was really helpful for me. | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 12:54 | comment | added | MrWhite | See also this page which discusses how Google determines the publish date of a page/post... webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/18395/… | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 12:53 | comment | added | MrWhite |
An XML sitemap is advisory, not authoritative. Google might use the <changefreq> to determine crawl rates, but it might not (probably not IMO). It might use the <lastmod> as a factor in determining the last modified date of the page - but it certainly uses other metrics as well. I have a site where Google has picked up an arbitrary date that appears near the top of the page as the publish date of the page - it is not - and this differs from the <lastmod> date specified in the XML sitemap.
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| Aug 14, 2012 at 11:12 | comment | added | Anand | dose the change frequency which is mentioned on the sitmap.xml matters on the results as well? | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 9:42 | comment | added | MrWhite |
As Su' mentions, a site: search is not necessarily reliable and all results may not be shown. Another point is how Google has determined the publish date (or last updated date (?) if looking at the advanced search page) of the page. Other dates that appear on page can affect this.
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| Aug 14, 2012 at 5:50 | comment | added | Anand | I tried Google search as eg: site:www.example.com/canonical/url I see the page in results. but the same dose not show up when 'Past Week' is clicked. | |
| Aug 13, 2012 at 16:01 | comment | added | Su' | +1 A site-limited search is not a reliable way to determine how many URLs have been indexed for your site; it only shows you a selection. This is what Webmaster Tools is for. | |
| Aug 13, 2012 at 12:58 | history | edited | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2012 at 11:42 | history | answered | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |