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Originally Posted by baxy
Might be never, Google might not index all pages from a web site.
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Only if you make the wrong sort of pages. I only had 101 pages I was interested in getting listed and before Google's bots had even munched that, they'd digested about 16,000 other pages which it's already begun listing, and although it took several weeks for the bots to actually discover and eat up the main 101 pages I was after, it's starting to list those too, and so at this stage it's already digesting more than I'd been seeking rather than less.
As it's primarily on a domain which has been around since 1998 and which has had strong google search history for many large chunks of time since then, I am likely to draw in a fairly healthy "plog", as I call it (but the mooks at wikipedia kept deleting my unsourced entry, claiming plog stands for "pages listed on google").
Realistic plog size estimation is a good talent to have, i.e. knowing how much of your content will be "out there". Eg I know off the top of my head that Webmaster-talk has about 100,000 plog. Ebay and sites like that can have 5 million plog. The most I've ever had was probably 10s of 1000s of plog or 100s... I can't really remember. It was a long time ago. But most if it was ineffective and improper, so it suffered all over the place.
These are just my observations from the outside.
Currently I have 101 pages which I'd banked on being listed, and beyond that everything else is a sort of bonus, which is boosting me a bit further than I thought the 101 pages would get, but you'd be surprised at how much traffic 101 of the most intelligent pages on the web can make... google wants intelligent information. That produces traffic.
All of those will be in the next update, I am fairly sure, since it "ate" them a few weeks ago - I saw it happen - I watch my logs closely, and monitor how much robotic traffic goes through in detail, I monitor lots and lots of stuff.
I estimate that I have up to 20,000 other pages google apparently finds list-worthy. it only had around 1,000 listworthy pages before, of which 5 were of the nature of my new 101, and it had aboutg 1005 listings. so who knows how much of its potential will be achieved. possibly all 20,000.
my alexa rating is already acclerating like mad. as happens at the start. so i'm just waiting for the next "big update" or whatever it is that folklore has come to call it. i have recently watched google digest all the pages i made to cover my tracks on the web in terms of adding layers of a certain form of public relations to my name when googled. i watched how many months it took, excruciatingly, to cover the trail of all the forum crap that was previously appearing on my name. so i have a clear idea, from recent history, of how slow and roastingly the process of getting your pages to be "truly searchable" on google can be.
Also I have a few experiences in smalltime search engine building and web crawling, so I know that google can't really do anything in a straightforward, linear fashion, easy to find the edges, and predict the dates. Google is sort of mining in space. There is infinity out there, it's hard to guage time. But the link I found suggests that waiting 2 to 3 months is about the worst that can happen to you. I don't think, with the amount of info in the world today, I would bet on google finishing anything huge in a single month any more.
current plog tables (pages listed on google)
webmaster-talk: 86,000 plog
ebay.com: 148 million plog
facebook.com: 477 million plog
google.com: 73 million plog
tfl.gov.uk: 214,000 plog
gov.uk: 120 million plog
twitter.com: 115 million plog
helium.com: 900,000 plog
nasa.gov: 47 million plog
un.org: 5 million plog
amazon.com: 107 million plog
youtube.com: 799 million plog
myspace.com: 218 million plog
wikipedia.org: 32 million plog
bbc.co.uk: 7 million plog
hotmail.com: 96 plog
argos.co.uk: 287,000 plog
woolworths.co.uk: 2680 plog
woolworths are real muffins, it seems, at least their ecommerce department are
