There has been lots of talk on a forum that I frequent about how slow Google has become at indexing new sites, and ranking them. Is this part of the new Caffeine update? Is it something new, something beyond Caffeine, or maybe the Google engineers are tuning the dials on Caffeine.

So, yeah, I haven’t launched a new site in a while so I cannot say if Google is slow on updating and ranking new sites, but as for pages on an existing site I had the complete opposite happen to me yesterday.

I guess I can say this blog is fairly well written, its on its own domain and hosting environment, reasonably fast to load, with 100% unique content. The situation that happened yesterday was that I posted 3 new posts in the say day (unusual as its the first posts since Sept 2009) and the homepage + the 3 posts were crawled, cached and ranking on the first page of Google within 4 hours of posting them on the site.

This is a PR3 blog with very few visitors per day, not exactly a great deal of authority, but there are minimal outbound links, no advertising on the site and it contains 100% original and unique content.

I can now see the kind of thought process Google goes through with websites - we want them to be quality, contain good, unique and interesting content.

Well, lap it up Google .. this is unique!! .. lol ..

Food for thought .. ;)