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Originally Posted by rogem002
4. If you never update a website people will never come back, and thus Google bot will never update the listing as often, I'm sure having a good stream of high quality content is useful.
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Not I'm picking nits, but web sites don't come up in web searches; only pages do. I have a pretty large site, by my standards, with maybe 90 % of the pages in my site in Google's index, some of them doing pretty well. Others live in the supplemental index.
Then I have an adjunct site, a blog. Once I click the publish button, it's pretty rare that I would go back and change the post in any way. Right now there are barely more than half a dozen entries, so a new post means a pretty major change to the site overall, but as the list grows, each new post is going to amount to less and less change.
I do think Google keeps a log of every time they visit every URL, and whether it changed ... then uses this in the scheduling algorithm. But I've also noticed on my non-blog site if I change a page after a six month hiatus, then drop a few links to it, GoogleBot comes back pretty quickly ... so I also think the frequency you update your site overall or any given page is only part of the equation. |
