my page www.trevortravels.com was last cache by google on Jan 26 which is awhile back how can I help get the google bot go to my site?

Keep building content and get more sites to link to yours. You can't do anything to just tell Google to come visit. If you haven't set your blog to send out pings whenever you publish a new post too.

in my opinion , the secrets of fast indexing are quality backlinks and freash content

Put your siganature on forums for faster indexing of your site.

If I'm not mistaken trevorwt isn't asking about getting a site initially indexed, but getting googlebot to come back more often.

trevor basically build a good site. Get the backlinks we're all suggesting and create a site that Google thinks important enough to visit often.

good no. of inbound links will help...

A high amount of 'quality' links and fresh unique content will be best.

Make Google want to come back, aim to get your site indexed (or at least crawled) by all of the major search engines daily

do you use google sitemaps?

Google Site Maps won't help if you've been crawled successfully. Those are for web sites their bot can't crawl.

You've been told to chase links about a hundred times, but in this case, I think that's something that may actually help. These are a measure of your popularity and importance, and while signature links are neither of those things, they do at least count as weak votes telling Google your site is worthy of some attention.

If your pages haven't changed since the last time their bot saw them, it'll double the time between crawls. They only have so much horsepower, but they have an infinite list of sites to crawl, so they need to use their time wisely and prioritize.

Originally Posted by trichnosis

in my opinion , the secrets of fast indexing are quality backlinks and freash content

have to support this.

ps. join forums & blog. will get indexed faster.

I have seen sites being crawled and index every day.
Looks like updated content is the key here.

Try adding:

  
<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 days" />

to your HTML.

But you should remember, that usually google updates such sites twice a month.

You could also try updating your google sitemap every time, you are creating new page on new url.

pitbull the above code won't do anything. You can't tell the robots to come. They will on their own, but telling them to come and how often won't change their behavior.

The main use for the robots tag is to tell them not to index of follow links on a certain page.

On one hand it won't make that robots visit site each day - it's for sure. But better add it just in case. I've nevered tested whether it changes anything a bit or not...

In case of what? Neither tag does anything.

The first tag is the default behavior. It's like issuing a command to tell the sun to rise each morning. It's going to happen so you don't need to issue the command.

The second one the robots are simply going to ignore since they visit on their own schedule.

You can certainly have them. They won't hurt at all, but neither is going to do anything. All you're doing is adding two lines of code that are unnecessary.

I've noticed big G going back to older caches the odd time or two. As long as you've got enough QUALITY backlinks (it usually only takes one), then you'll eventually get recrawled and reupdated.

Steve: I think you may want to reword that first post of yours since it may cause confusion. The revisit-after meta tag does nothing, but the robots meta tag IS used. I use it on all of my sites since my content and my tags are dynamically generated, and using the tag allows me dynamic control over which pages do and don't get indexed (mostly on storefronts with discontinued/sold-out products.)

I've actually seen a few people claiming that <meta name="robots" does nothing, but it is still honoured by at least the major search engines.

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=35264

Here's an example where webmasters can filter out their DMOZ descriptions using the robots tag.

Mind you, it's not totally necessary (neither is robots.txt for that matter), but my personal rule of thumb is to make indexing or not indexing explicit. No guesswork required on the part of engines.

Hmm...I always wodnered about that. Why do they go back to the older cache??

I thought the revisit after / content length tag was used for sites that don't change very often, and don't want the robots crawling them very often. That you could tell them not to come back more than once a week...? Obviously that's not the problem here, but I had the idea that you could use this to tell the 'bots your content doesn't expire for a while. Seems like Project Gutenberg must have thousands of pages that are static.

Adam I know they honor the <meta name="robots"...>

What I'm saying is that index, follow are the default so you don't need to use the tag that way. It's use is more in telling search engines which pages not to index or not to follow.

Are you saying there are cases where a search engine will only index a page and follow the links because you tell them to with the tag? My understanding is adding the 'index' and 'follow' does exactly the same thing as if the tag weren't there..

the revisit-after meta seems as if it was originally coded by and for Vancouver Webpages for use by their own search bot to exclude it from indexing pages that were not expected to change very often.

No Internet Search Engine (AFAIK) has ever used this meta information.

BTW The "VW-96 ..." metas were also coded by Vancouver Webpages so are equally useless for anyone using them.