If you change your sitemap and some content on your site frequently does that make Google search you more?

I have noticed that when i change stuff i get picked up on search engines better.

Here is the site: http://www.theshowmaker.com

Maybe me just working the site and optimizing it has helped. But, i wonder if it's just the continual changes have helped also?.

Thanks,

Yes, when you update your website frequently you have a better chance of ranking better and getting searched more. This is also why people recommend having RSS feeds on websites. Whenever the RSS is updated, so is the website, therefore the search engines see this and think they need to check for new content.

Updating your site will make absolutely no difference whatsoever to how Google treats your pages.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Updating your site will make absolutely no difference whatsoever to how Google treats your pages.

Chris, would you agree that if you updated your site often (daily?) you would get indexed more often? Google might not rank your pages higher but they would visit your site more.

Absolutely not.

I have one site that hasn't been updated in four years. It gets indexed as often as it always has done, gets found and visited by just as many people.

Don't believe all this half brained drivel bandied about by so called experts, most of them make it up so they can charge "clients" for "work" that doesn't need doing!

LINKS are what set the crawling rate, not updates or pointless sitemap settings.

well google is really mostly in control thou ... and they usually wants to update if they wanted too.

So adding an RSS feed to my website helped me in no way whatsoever then? I only added it so that my pages would be updated when I updated my blog, so that google would browse it more often.

Sucks for that

On the other topic, building links will get your site crawled more often right?

Originally Posted by WebTraffic

Yes, when you update your website frequently you have a better chance of ranking better and getting searched more. This is also why people recommend having RSS feeds on websites. Whenever the RSS is updated, so is the website, therefore the search engines see this and think they need to check for new content.

I thought RSS feeds were there for people to stay tuned.

Exactly... Doing something to your website for anyone OTHER than the end user - You are wasting your time.

If it improves their experiance of visiting your site then do it, but for that reason only...

rolda hayes is right - changing content for anything else then the visitors or for SEO purposes its no use

Originally Posted by WebTraffic

So adding an RSS feed to my website helped me in no way whatsoever then? I only added it so that my pages would be updated when I updated my blog, so that google would browse it more often.

Sucks for that

On the other topic, building links will get your site crawled more often right?

Only if the pages where the links are placed are crawled on a regular basis.

Changing content oftenly don't make good for serp

Only google controls how often or how long it will index your site.

I see now. So basically this is why the lists of 20,000+ website directories are pretty much pointless.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Absolutely not.

I have one site that hasn't been updated in four years. It gets indexed as often as it always has done, gets found and visited by just as many people.

Don't believe all this half brained drivel bandied about by so called experts, most of them make it up so they can charge "clients" for "work" that doesn't need doing!

LINKS are what set the crawling rate, not updates or pointless sitemap settings.

and that breaks the common misconception that as soon as you update your site, you have to let google know about the change in contents for it to crawl and index the pages faster. Are we wasting our time in doing all these unwanted things?

Are we wasting our time in doing all these unwanted things?

nd that's just ONE of the many useless things that people do in considering search engines before REAL users.

Speaking of actual users, wouldn't creating more content more often, provided that the content was of quality, lead to more people liking your site to link to you? In the grand scheme of things, on the average across the whole population of internet publishers, of course not everyone would, but I'd be inclined to think that more people would share your content.

In that way, google *would* crawl you more.

So, i guess that is a "no"

LOL