DerekH - 5:23 pm on Oct 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

mcdermc wrote

I made keyword changes to 2 x PR3 sites on 1st October 2003 and a further minor image change 2 days ago to one of them. The one site is already showing 'new' cache (including the 2 day old new image) in Google - whereas the other is still showing 'old' cache.

I mentioned on this very forum a few days ago that on one of my sites, my PR5 home page still has "August 27th" written in the cache.

Even if you were to postulate that Google regimented its "botting" to a simple formula like PR5 every two weeks, PR4 every month, PR3 every 2 months (and there's considerable evidence, mine included, to show that this isn't the case - my other site's PR4 home page gets a visit every single day, whereas my PR5 homepage goes months without a look-in (and has many more backlinks too...))

Sorry - I digress! - even if there WAS a formula, you may have been lucky with one site (got there just before the Bot) and unlucky with the other site (just missed him).

On a PR3 page, I personally don't expect to get visited more than once every 3 months - anything more than that is a bonus, but I'm going to choose my content on such pages so that they don't look stupidly out of data in Google's Serps. I'm after visitors, so a PR3 page which says "Last chance to buy a widget this April" is not the sort of thing I put on a page that might have an out-of-date version in the SERPS....

DerekH