Google Dance 2010-2011

What is Google Dance?

“Google Dance” is nothing but a term used to depict major index update by Google search engine.

The Reason webmasters and Search Engine Optimizers were interested in the dance is to know keyword positions on Google in future by checking the other Google servers as they use to be updated before the main server google.com. If you have added new pages and want to know if they have been indexed, checking Google data centers will provide you an image of your page in future SERP’s.

The Google data centers do not receive the new Google update index at the same time. The new Google update index is transferred to one Google data center after the other. If you check the results from one server to another during the Google update they will differ, and it changes as each Google server is updated, hence the term, Google Dance.

Google Dance – Every Minute, Every Time!

Earlier webmasters used to wait for “Google dance” to see their ranking updates and Page rank update whether it’s been increased or decreased, but now a days you rarely hear people are talking about Google Dance. Comparatively, now Google’s minor updates are done throughout the day which includes index update every minute and algorithmic update several times in a month. google-dance

“From the summer of 2000 to the summer of 2003, index updates tended to happen about once a month. The resulting changes were called the Google Dance. The Google Dance occurred over the course of 6-8 days because each data center in turn had to be taken out of rotation and loaded with an entirely new web index, and that took time. In the summer of 2003 (the Google Dance called “Update Fritz”), Google switched to an index that was incrementally updated every day (or faster). Instead of a monolithic monthly event, the Google would refresh some of its index pretty much every day, which generated much smaller day-to-day changes that some people called everflux.
Over the years, Google’s indexing has been streamlined, to the point where most regular people don’t even notice the index updating. As a result, the terms “everflux,” “Google Dance,” and “index update” are hardly ever used anymore (or they’re used incorrectly). Instead, most SEOs talk about algorithm updates or data updates/refreshes. Most data refreshes are index updates, although occasionally a data refresh will happen outside of the day-to-day index updates. For example, updated backlinks and PageRanks are made visible every 3-4 months.” Said by Matt Cutts.

Source:- resultrix.com