General Spider Attractants...

Anyone know of quick solutions?

[Eric_Lander]

Is there a failsafe way to attract a number of spiders on a regular basis? I've noticed that Scooter, Pirahna, Teoma, and a few others index client's sites once and never return. Why would this be?

Also... Is there just a general *food& that can be put out on the site's contents to attract more and more spiders quickly? I've noticed that the logs have a tendancy to show one-hit-wonders and once every 2 monthers... And I want active scanning of ALL resources..

Anyways, ideas... are much appreciated. Thanks!

[Eric_Lander]

Another small issue.. Anyone know of a way to refer spiders from one site to another?

One client has 2 sites.. One of which gets some MAJOR attention... Another, gets next to nothing. Anyways to transfer these spiders back and forth? I think that it would greatly benefit the SE-findings...

Thanks again to whomever might help~

[skirril]

There are a number of way to atract spiders, some of them free, some of them less so:

a) Submit the url in question to all SE's you know (free submit is enough, usually).

b) Thrive to get an entry in the ODP (open directory project). While you wont see many recognisable referrals from dmoz.org, quite a few "minor" search engines use the ODP entries, or part of them.

c) See that your pages possess meaningful meta TAGS. Some spiders will only include those meta tags

Referral of the spider to other pages/sites usually is done by anchors (a href="..")

Other than those I dont know any generic tips I could give, different spiders look for different things.

[Marcia]

Eric_Lander, is there a difference between the number of inbound links to the two sites in question? That could possibly have an influence.

You'll also want to double-check that the sites have good internal text links for spiders to follow.

I wouldn't be overly concerned about spiders other than those from the the major search engines. Some visit on a regular basis; however not all of them deep-crawl. With some you might want to make submissions of additional site pages (keep it under 5 a day from a site)to give a nudge.

skirril's point is well made about the ODP listing, which has a profound influence on your Google ranking.