Thread: WTF Profile views

Originally Posted by Ryan

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182072

Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process: computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site.

Googlebot's crawl process begins with a list of webpage URLs, generated from previous crawl processes and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters. As Googlebot visits each of these websites it detects links (SRC and HREF) on each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update the Google index.



This also explains why a thread can appear in Google Search not long after it's been posted. The more posts a user has, the more associated "crawls".

Makes sense the tiny bit I understood. I sometimes google search for something after a post is made in here and 9 times out of 10 the first hit is from NZHS.