When Google Comes Visiting

To be listed in Google’s database, Google visits your site using automated programs called robots or spiders, such programs “read” each and every page of your website, starting typically with your home page and then following each link to all other web pages on your sites. When a search engine robots or spider visits your site, it is said to crawl or spider your site.

Google in The past has done two types of crawl – the deep crawl and the fresh crawled. The deep crawl is traditionally done near the end of each month or each page is crawled. The fresh crawl is traditionally done several times of week, but only certain pages are crawled, The more “popular” your site , the more often are typically is crawled by Google. Highly ranked sites and sites that update content frequently can get crawled daily.

You can determine when your site was last crawled by looking at the date displayed on the last line of your website’s listing on a Google Search results page.