Did an SEO Experiment and my Hypothesis was Correct
Hi Folks,
I have been doing some SEO experiments this week and have come up with some very exciting results.
Here's the summary.
Hypothesis: Google Search Console speeds up indexing and ranking
The Experiment:
- Post 2 articles (article A & article B) spanning a week apart
- Article A: 'Fetch as Google' inside of Search Console immediately upon posting
- Article A: 'Resubmit sitemap' inside of Search Console immediately upon posting
- Article B: 'Fetch as Google' inside of Search Console 1 day after posting
- Article B: 'Resubmit sitemap' inside of Search Console 1 day after posting
The Conclusion:
The LIVE results will be posted here
(and this post will be updated as the experiment continues)
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Funny, just today was thinking: "Wouldn't it be great to know if Google Search Console really speeds up indexing and ranking!"
Well, I'll be following you on this, Jay.
Interesting experiment Jay! Looking forward to hearing the results on this tomorrow. I've been wondering, what about updating SEO information on older posts...
I realized I have a lot of older ones that I missed adding the SEO titles, descriptions, images etc. Should I "fetch them as Google" or "resubmit sitemap" once I update them with the missing info?
Thanks for doing all of this for us Jay!
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
Can you explain to me what "Fetch as Google" and "Resubmit sitemap" means in this context?
I definitely need to do a sitemap for my site, that is something I still haven't gotten around to yet.
When you fetch as Google, you are fetching images and everything and Google will try to render them all. If any page resources are missing or cannot be accessed, it will tell you. It is basically a "crawl" and a "render" combtination.
Your SEO plugin should let you see and edit your sitemap. Then on Google/Bing/Whatever, you submit that sitemap. With Google you can submit it for testing, e.g., Google will tell you if there are broken links, etc. When you submit it (sans testing) you are submitting it for subsequent crawls.
I have wondered more than once if submitting sitemaps in Search Console vs. waiting, actually made any difference, but I never experimented. Thanks for taking the lead. Looking forward to seeing the results.
What is the difference between "Submit URL to Google" and Fetch as Google inside Search Console or these will be the same?
Thanks for trying new things out so the rest of us don't have to test as much, Jay! It's great when we can just look at the case studies of other successful members in order to gauge what has to be done :)
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Good to know! Thx!