Timeline for Page appears indexed in Google but not findable for any search terms?
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| Dec 9, 2010 at 8:59 | answer | added | Mike Woodhouse | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 9, 2010 at 8:05 | answer | added | Michael Ebert | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 15, 2010 at 14:08 | answer | added | Jeremy Boyd | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 14, 2010 at 6:24 | answer | added | pbz | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 23:21 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @dan "Sitemaps also have a huge benefit for refresh crawling" which is why we limit it to the last 50k updated questions. It also has benefit for speed of indexing. But for deep url discoverability, it does absolutely nothing in our experience. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:45 | comment | added | Dan Fabulich | @Jeff There's not enough room in this comment to argue about sitemaps, but in Google's paper "Sitemaps: Above and Beyond the Crawl of Duty", Google describes the sitemap as just a page on your site. If you want to pass PageRank to pages without directly linking to them in your UI, you use a sitemap. That's exactly what you want to do on StackOverflow, as I understand it. (Sitemaps also have a huge benefit for refresh crawling, allowing Google to use the lastmod date to avoid unnecessary refresh.) | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:35 | comment | added | Halil Özgür | Once (I think it was yesterday) an answer of me was indexed nearly immediately. Just after I've posted my answer (merely after a few seconds), I hit Google to get more insight about the issue. As hard as believable, the very first result was my own answer! So there seems to be two far ends to the situation. What about building a mirror/spam site for SO? Ok, it was a bad joke. The bad thing is, Google is not very verbose on these issues... | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:32 | answer | added | Dan Fabulich | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:21 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @dan sitemap is irrelevant here; see webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox -- but you can assume this WAS in the sitemap of the last 50k active questions at the time it was asked. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:07 | comment | added | Dan Fabulich | Perhaps there's an error in your sitemap, but I can't see, because Stackoverflow blocks sitemap access to non-search-engines. Could you add the relevant snippet from your sitemap to the question? | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:07 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @george it's the above issue, or the page isn't indexed at all. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:06 | comment | added | Webjedi | Perhaps you haven't paid your Google bill this month. I wonder if it's content related...are there any stop words in say one of the ads that displayed when the page was indexed? | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 22:00 | comment | added | George Stocker | @Jeff Atwood I've been noticing that other sites that mirror Stack Overflow content are coming up before Stack Overflow in searches for questions. I'm not sure what's causing it, but it doesn't give me a warm-fuzzy. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 21:59 | history | edited | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 12, 2010 at 21:54 | history | asked | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 2.5 |