The new site had absolutely no incoming links, I hadn’t added it to my webmaster tools account or done anything at all for Google to know that the domain existed which got my brain wondering what was Google up too.

But I’ve since learn’t that Google is actually now a domain registrar and therefore knows when any new top level (.com .net etc) is registered. So when a new domain name is registered it actually seeks out this new domain for indexing. It only does this for top level domains not second level domains such as .com.au or .co.uk.

Interesting huhhh

So how does this affect our site SEO strategies?? Please leave your idea as comments.

The Google dance is the updating of the servers which hold Google’s search results. The updating of the results used to sometimes be quite dramatic hence the dance terminology. These days the “Google index updates” are a lot more continuous and subtle but it is still an important concept to be aware of.

Before your web pages can be affected by the “Google index updates” your website needs to be crawled and index by Google “spiders”. Which considering the huge number of web pages on the internet and the number being added everyday gives you an idea why it can take awhile to get into Google results or index.

The spiders called Googlebots are crawling programs, which follow links to fetch documents. This is the first step in a webpage being added to the Google index. These spiders are pieces of software which are on over 10,000 servers. And from these 10,000+ servers Google gets it search results.

Google Dance and Datacenters

Not only Google’s index is spread over more than 10,000 servers, but these servers are, in 12 different data centers.

Datacenters and different Google results

Often when you do a Google search you get back different results why? Because of the datacenters having different indexes!! When you conduct a search through you may get the results from one datacenter and then another time from another datacenter. Which datacenter returns your results can depend on your ip address, browser etc and the of course the Google dance.

The Google Dance Test Domains www2 & www3

The beginning of a Google Dance can always be watched at the test domains www2.google.com and www3.google.com. The reason for having www2 and www3 is rather to show the new index to webmasters which are interested in their upcoming rankings. Many of these webmasters discuss the new index at the Google forums out on the web. These discussions can be observed by Google employees.

More information of how Google collects and ranks results can be found here. It old but still relevant http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0512_01.html

And below you can check what’s going on in the Google dance

http://www.seochat.com/googledance/

I like some features like when pasting into the address bar their is a right click option of “paste and go”- saves me a click so I’m happy and the I like the overall typical clean Google interface.

But where my Google tool bar? I would have thought this would have been built in. So I thought I’d just go and get it again but when I did -it thought my browser was Firefox!! What you don’t recognize your own browser Google – so I thought oh well we’ll see what happen maybe the Firefox Google tool bar with work with Chrome.

OK I’m obviously no techy but I just want my Google tool bar so I’lll try anything!! But again no I wasn’t going to get my toolbar because it told me I had to upgrade my Firefox!! My Firefox is happy thank you very much and I am not upgarding it!

Considering I was using Googles browser and just wanted the Google tool bar I guested I was asking too much of the beta version oh well

Overall at the moment it’s not going to be much use to me if I their aren’t any add-ons but I’m going to leave it on anyway and see how it goes just cause I’m a Google girl