Every webmaster knows that in order for people to start visiting his resource from search engines, it needs to be indexed. About what site indexing is, how it is carried out, and what its meaning is, we will tell in this article.
What is indexing?
So, the word "indexing" in itself means entering something into the register, a census of materials that are available. The same principle applies to site indexing. In fact, this process can also be called entering information about Internet resources into the database of search engines.
Thus, as soon as the user enters another phrase into the Google search field, the script will return a result to him, including the title of your site and its brief description, which we see below.
How is indexing done?
Indexing itself ("Yandex" is, or Google - does not play a role) is quite simple. The entire web of the Internet, focusing on the database of ip-addresses that search engines have, is scanned by powerful robots - "spiders" that collectinformation about your site. Each of the search engines has a huge number of them, and they work automatically 24 hours a day. Their task is to go to your site and "read" all the content on it, while entering the data into the database.
Consequently, in theory, site indexing does not depend much on the owner of the resource. The decisive factor here is the search robot that comes to the site and explores it. This is what affects how quickly your site appears in search results.
Indexing terms?
Of course, it is beneficial for every webmaster to have his resource appear in the search results as quickly as possible. This will affect, firstly, the terms for bringing the site to the first positions, and, secondly, when the first stages of monetization of the site begin. Thus, the sooner the search robot "eats" all the pages of your resource, the better.
Each search engine has its own algorithm for entering site data into its database. For example, the indexing of pages in Yandex is carried out in stages: robots scan sites constantly, then arrange the information, after which the so-called “update” takes place, when all changes take effect. The regularity of such events is not established by the company: they are held once every 5-7 days (as a rule), however, they can take place both 2 and 15 days in advance.
At the same time, the indexing of the site in Google follows a different model. In this search engine, such “updates” (base updates) take place regularly, therefore, wait every time until the robots enter the information into the database, and then itwill be ordered every few days, do not need.
Based on the above, we can draw the following conclusion: pages in Yandex are added after 1-2 "updates" (that is, in 7-20 days on average), and in Google this can happen much faster - literally in day.
At the same time, of course, each search engine has its own peculiarities of how indexing is carried out. Yandex, for example, has a so-called "fast bot" - a robot that can enter data into the issue in a few hours. True, it is not easy to make him visit your resource: this mainly concerns news and various high-profile events developing in real time.
How to get into the index?
The answer to the question of how to index your site in search engines is both simple and complex. Page indexing is a natural phenomenon, and if you don’t even think about it, but just, say, keep your blog, gradually filling it with information, search engines will “swallow” your content perfectly over time.
Another thing is when you need to speed up page indexing, for example, if you have a network of so-called "satellites" (sites designed to sell links or place ads, the quality of which is usually worse). In this case, you need to take measures so that the robots notice your site. The following are considered common: adding the site's URL to a special form (it's called "AddUrl"); running the resource address through the link directories; add address to directoriesbookmarks and more. There are numerous discussions on SEO forums about how each of these methods work. As practice shows, each case is unique, and it is difficult to more accurately find the reasons why one site was indexed in 10 days, and the other in 2 months.
How to speed up getting into the index?
However, the logic behind getting a site into the index faster is based on linking to it. In particular, we are talking about setting URLs on free and public sites (bookmarks, directories, blogs, forums); about buying links on large and popular sites (using the Sape exchange, for example); as well as adding a sitemap to the addURL form. Perhaps there are other methods, but those that have already been listed can be safely called the most popular. Recall, in general, everything depends on the site and the luck of its owner.
Which sites are indexed?
According to the official position of all search engines, sites that pass through a series of filters get into the index. No one knows what requirements the latter contain. It is only known that over time they all improve in such a way as to filter out pseudo-sites created to earn money by selling links and other resources that do not carry useful information for the user. Of course, for the creators of these sites, the main task is to index pages as much as possible (to attract visitors, sell links, etc.).next).
What resources search engines ban?
Based on the previous information, we can conclude which sites are most likely not to get into the SERPs. The same information is voiced by official representatives of search engines. First of all, these are sites containing non-unique, automatically generated content that is not useful for visitors. This is followed by resources in which there is a minimum of information, created to sell links and so on.
True, if you analyze the results of search engines, you can find all these sites in it. Therefore, if we talk about sites that will not be present in the search results, we should note not only non-unique content, but also a number of other factors - many links, improperly organized structure, and so on.
Hiding content. How to disable page indexing?
Search engines crawl all content on the site. However, there is a technique by which you can restrict the access of search robots to a particular section. This is done using the robots.txt file, to which the "spiders" of search engines react.
If this file is placed in the root of the site, the indexing of pages will proceed according to the script that is written in it. In particular, you can disable indexing with a single command - Disallow. In addition to it, the file can also specify sections of the site to which this prohibition will apply. For example, to prohibit the index of the entire site, it is enough to specifyone slash "/"; and to exclude the “shop” section from the search results, it is enough to specify the following characteristic in your file: “/shop”. As you can see, everything is logical and extremely simple. Page indexing closes very easily. At the same time, search robots visit your page, read robots.txt and do not enter data into the database. So you can easily manipulate to see certain characteristics of sites in the search. Now let's talk about how the index is checked.
How can I check page indexing?
There are several ways to find out how many and which pages are present in the Yandex or Google database. The first - the simplest - is to set the corresponding request in the search form. It looks like this: site:domen.ru, where instead of domen.ru you prescribe, respectively, the address of your site. When you make such a request, the search engine will show all the results (pages) located at the specified URL. Moreover, in addition to simply listing all pages, you can also see the total number of indexed material (to the right of the phrase "Number of results").
The second way is to check page indexing using specialized services. There are now a large number of them, offhand they can be called xseo.in and cy-pr.com. On such resources, you can not only see the total number of pages, but also determine the quality of some of them. However, you only need this if you are more in-depth understanding of this topic. As a rule, these are professional SEO tools.
About "forced" indexing
I would also like to write a little about the so-called"Forced" indexing, when a person tries to drive his site into the index using various "aggressive" methods. Optimizers do not recommend doing this.
Search engines, at the very least, noticing excessive activity associated with a new resource, may impose some kind of sanctions that negatively affect the state of the site. Therefore, it is better to do everything so that the indexing of pages looks as organic, gradual and smooth as possible.
