Answered by
Oliver Hall
Google's indexing frequency varies greatly depending on several factors related to the website itself and its content. Here's a deeper look at what influences how often Google might index your site:
If you frequently update your site by adding new content or updating existing content, Google's crawlers are likely to visit your site more often. Sites that remain static with no changes may not be visited as frequently.
Websites that receive a lot of traffic or have a high number of backlinks (links from other sites) tend to be crawled more frequently. This is because Google views these sites as important and wants to keep the search results as updated as possible.
Google assigns a crawl budget to each website, which is the number of pages Googlebot can and wants to crawl. If your website has thousands of pages, but only a small portion gets significant traffic, Google might focus on those popular pages more frequently.
Using a sitemap and submitting it through Google Search Console can help Google discover new pages. Also, using the Search Console to fetch as Google allows webmasters to directly request a re-crawl of specific URLs.
If your website is often down or loads very slowly, Google crawlers might be discouraged from indexing it frequently. Good hosting can solve this issue and encourage more regular visits by Googlebot.
It's observed that some active blogs or news sites might get indexed multiple times a day, whereas a seldom-updated site might see Googlebot once every few weeks or even longer. Use tools like Google Search Console to monitor how often Googlebot visits your site.
Overall, there isn't a fixed schedule for how often Google indexes websites. It is dynamic and adjusts based on numerous factors as mentioned above.