: New blog post shows immediately in google search results where as other HTML content takes time, why? I have a blog which has been active for 3 years. Recently I posted an article and it

@Heady270

You would do well to monitor your server logs for access patterns, what URLs the Googlebot is retrieving, what status codes it is getting in response, and verify that the URLs to the static HTML files you speak of are actually correct in your sitemap.

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@LarsenBagley505

Were your personal search results turned off? When was the page cached? It's likely your blog pinged Google along with other search engines once you published the post. Well Google blog search at least which is different than Google Bot.

Search results work just the same for a blog post page compared to any other content page. Google has been crawling, indexing, and caching pages much quicker than in the last few years. Where in the past they would push updates to their data centers lets say once per week now it's probably a few times a day if not instantaneous.

The blog post when generated may have gotten naturally more internal links than some of your other pages. It's content is certainly fresher than other pages on your site most likely and the HTTP response from that page told Google the content was very recently updated.

All in all what you're asking is "How does Google work" and there's no answer that can tell you exactly how they indexed that one blog post as quick as they did. Maybe it was luck that they were crawling your site when you posted and it coincided with an update to their index.

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