Freshbot

new page indexed but no fresh tag

[Rugles]

I have never seen this before.

On our big site I frequently add new pages. Because we get near daily fresh crawls I often see our new pages in the Google index within hours of the pages being published.

Now, here is my question. I made a new page with some "topical" keywords to take advantage of recent news. The freshbot came by and indexed the page. I am now getting traffic for the "topical" keywords. However when I checked how I rank for the "topical" keyword (#2) there is not a fresh tag, ie no date. I have never seen this before. Is anybody else notice this kind of thing?

[HenryUK]

Yes.

Same on my home page. Also same is true for some new, previously Fresh-only sites that I have been tracking.

My understanding was that at some point before the update, Fresh listings disappeared in their entirety - not just the dates dropping off.

[Rugles]

Good point, it could indicate an impending update. I did have my usual freshbot visit a few hours back.

[daveking]

Sorry to ask, guys, but quite new to all of this. Can I ask a silly question: how do you see these tags and dates that you talk of? What is their particular importance?

Many thanks - Dave

[HenryUK]

dave

Often in among the search results you will see some that have a date next to the green URL and size at the bottom of each entry.

this will always be a relatively recent date.

These entries will appear for a few days and then disappear again.

They are the result of "Freshbot" listings. If you search this site for "Freshbot" and "deepcrawl" you will find plenty of detail and explanation.

[skipfactor]

"news" hasn't had fresh tags in days and CNET's meta shows the cached meta w/ "February 14, 2003" in it.

Google News also dropped to page 2 in the SERPs for "news"