I cant seem to figure out the increment at which google indexes my site, before sept 4 (as seen in the picture) usually it was weekly, but now were coming on 2 and 1/2. Any ideas as to why googlebot wont get its act together? I update my site roughly ever 1-3 days.

Also:

My website, techsomething.net until just recently remained dead. 2 weeks ago, I overhauled all the content and re-designed it, set up a forum, and now my dead links seem to be stuck in the search pages.


For example, when you do a site search from my home page, or through google, half of the results will come up to be dead links. Which then send you to my custom error page, and through the entire cycle again.

I have uploaded a complete sitemap.

Thanks.

Crawler visits are nothing to do with how often you update, the frequency is based on the links pointing to your pages.
So now you have changed all the links on your pages pointing to your pages, there are less, so the crawler visits go down.

and now my dead links seem to be stuck in the search pages.

Are these redirected using a 301 redirect?
does your custom error return a 404 response or does it return a 200?

you will get more traffic if google crawl non-stop, like everyday

you will get more traffic if google crawl non-stop, like everyday

Only from googlebots

Crawling your home page is different than crawling your site.

Crawler visits are nothing to do with how often you update, the frequency is based on the links pointing to your pages.
So now you have changed all the links on your pages pointing to your pages, there are less, so the crawler visits go down.

Alright, I'm just throwing in whatever information I know about it to see if it would help. And by less do you mean links or pages? Because there roughly 200 more pages than what the original site had.

Are these redirected using a 301 redirect?
does your custom error return a 404 response or does it return a 200?

301, honestly never crossed my mind while I was powering through the re-design, and hence I didnt do a single one, and the filenames are long gone as I no longer have a backup of the old website. 404 custom can be seen here:
techsomething.net/error

Thanks for your help.

Your 404 page returns a 302 redirect BTW

less links

Because there roughly 200 more pages than what the original site had

Maybe, but they currently of zero use, because the SEs are still looking for the old pages which are no longer there and finding a 302 redirect which they don't follow.

You don't actually need the pages, if you get a list of the indexed non-existant URL on the site from the SEs you can then use .htaccess to redirect to the new versions.

Your 404 page returns a 302 redirect BTW

What does that mean, I thought that the error page just gave resources where they could find the information they were looking for. not be a temporary re-direct.

You don't actually need the pages, if you get a list of the indexed non-existant URL on the site from the SEs you can then use .htaccess to redirect to the new versions.

Im not completely opposed to posting redirects to those pages that still exist, but the problem is that many of those pages don't exist are have be completely re-written to a different subject, I think I can counter this by just posting a permanent re-direct to the general section where those articles would have been found.

At this point, my goal is to just have those pages no longer be listed, I thought it would be a matter of days before they fell out since there cant be any links because the page doesn't exist.

Thanks for your help.