[McGarryMA]

Does anyone know how quickly the relevant engines start to pick up your SEO improvements. For example...

How long does a relevant backlink take to show up against your alexa ranking. Does it depend on Alexa searching for you or is down to the page rank of the backlink placement?

How often does google search your site and what factors effect this process? Is it adding new content myself? Or resubmitting my URL to search engines?

Thanks All

[Jason Dexter]

McGarryMA, on 19 January 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

Does anyone know how quickly the relevant engines start to pick up your SEO improvements. For example...

How long does a relevant backlink take to show up against your alexa ranking. Does it depend on Alexa searching for you or is down to the page rank of the backlink placement?

How often does google search your site and what factors effect this process? Is it adding new content myself? Or resubmitting my URL to search engines?

Thanks All

Google doesn't do a huge index at any particular timescale.

If you have a website with just one backlink, then it all depends how popular that website is. If you have 100,000 backlinks then you'll get crawled on a more regular basis.

I never submit my site to Google, I didnt realize they still did that as an option and I never use Alexa haha. I just see how my website is doing in the SERPs as thats the result you really want to be getting.

New content is great for when Google gets there, but the more backlinks you have the more often you'll get crawled.

Just keep plugging away at backlinking

[McGarryMA]

Thanks

Whats the feelings on alexa then? Are you personaly not bothered with it or is it that you don't think it provides the kind of insight that it professes to?

I'm semi new to the SEO game and found the info on alexa quite revieling but also slow on the uptake of actually ranking a site. Is it really not worth using???

Cheers

[Jason Dexter]

McGarryMA, on 19 January 2012 - 05:33 PM, said:

Thanks

Whats the feelings on alexa then? Are you personaly not bothered with it or is it that you don't think it provides the kind of insight that it professes to?

I'm semi new to the SEO game and found the info on alexa quite revieling but also slow on the uptake of actually ranking a site. Is it really not worth using???

Cheers

I wouldn't dismiss it, if it's what you use. I just don't personally use it nor have interest in the information it has. I just don't think the information would be very reliable.

If you're interested in backlinks have a look at open explorer by SEOMoz. they also have some brilliant tools you can use