Comments on: Tracking Site Page Importance Via Crawl Cache Dates

By: Barny

Barny — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:29:30 +0000

I don’t know of any way to directly influence the speed with which Google will crawl and index
sites, or update the cache. Setting update frequency in your sitemap or
meta tags will have no effect — Google crawls and indexes your site
based on other factors, such as site authority and history. A sitemap
just helps Google find all your pages eventually (on its own schedule).

Updates to the Google cache typically trail updates to the actual search index by
quite a bit — days or weeks. You cannot use the cache as an indication
of what is in the index. A better way to check is to search on exact
strings in your new pages — you may find them indexed but not yet in
the cache. As to how to speed up crawling and indexing, the best way to do this is to
build the authority of your site, and that means building inbound
links.

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By: Donna Fontenot

Donna Fontenot — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:24:51 +0000

@melaniephung not exactly what you’re looking for, but might lead you in the right direction – http://cli.gs/NU4P6p

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:57:24 +0000

Amol, frequent updates can help, but aren’t necessarily going to be the only solution. (Is there ever just one solution to any seo problem? LOL, not!) You should also be getting others to link to your pages/posts. You see, it’s not just a matter of getting the bot to come to a page soon after you post – but getting it to return to that same page to recache it on a frequent basis. It won’t return often if it believes the page isn’t important enough or popular enough to do so. That’s why promotion of the page is important, and frequency of updates doesn’t address that aspect of it.

By: Amol

Amol — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:43:30 +0000

Thanks Donna for this nice and informative post.
I have a question??
If crawl rate is the new pagerank, then the sites/blogs with frequent updates must be having more crawl rates which means they are more important for search engines.Is this true?

By: Donna Fontenot

Donna Fontenot — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:24:33 +0000

Another of my guest posts today: http://cli.gs/trackcache Tracking Site Page Importance Via Crawl Cache Dates

By: Paul Woodhouse

Paul Woodhouse — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:40:28 +0000

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