The Missing Link - Finding Your Homepage
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Consider this: Your homepage is: http://mydomain.com/index.html.
On your homepage you place a link to your new page at: http://mydomain.com/findme.html. Now, when the spider from Google visits your homepage, it will find your new page by following the link. It can then take back the information about the new page and include it in the index. But wait... How is Google going to find out about your homepage? The answer, of course, is that you need to either submit the homepage itself, or have a link pointing to it from another page so the search engine spiders can find it. Vicious circle isn’t it? The very best way to get a new site found and included in the search engine, is to link to it from a web page that Google ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT.
Google sends out its spiders every month looking for new pages. These spiders will start at pages they already know about and look for new links to new pages. Suppose you have a web site with 100 pages. You have just managed to get your site listed in Google, but for some reason Google has only found 10 pages.
What next? It often takes time for Google to find all of your pages. The process of discovering your pages is related to how deep into your site the spiders have to go, in order to find all of your pages.
Example 1
Consider this:
Page 1 links to page 2
Page 2 links to page 3
Page 3 links to page 4
Page 4 links to page 5
Page 5 links to page 6
Page 6 links to page 7
Page 7 links to page 8
For the spider to be able to find all 8 pages, it would need to follow the links on 7 different pages – this site is 8 levels deep. A spider may only go 2 levels deep on any one visit to your site, but remember, it can do so starting from any page that it knows about.
So on the:
- 1st visit to your site, the spider starts on page 1 and finds page 2 and then page 3
- 2nd visit, the spider can start on page 3 and finds page 4 and page 5
- 3rd visit, the spider can start on page 5 and finds page 6 and page 7
- 4th visit, the spider can start on page 7 and finds page 8.
See diagram below. If the spider only visits your site once a month, then it will take 4 months to collect information about all 8 pages of your site.
Figure 1 An 8 level deep site
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