Need my news updated on Google

Why won't googlebot come out and play?

[discod]

I have a page of news that I update nearly every day. I've submitted it to PFI for Lycos/Alltheweb and Inktomi and I'm getting good results (and updates). My question is: Is there any way I can get the Googlebot to visit a little more often?

My home page has a PR6 and the news page is PR5.

Could the lack of ability to do this possibly be a weakness for Google? I've always been fan of Google, but this is one area where it seems that either you are a major hub or your out of the game when it comes to news. (I hope I'm wrong and loook forward to your replies.)

[Visit Thailand]

I have a similar problem, a few of our sites are all showing caches from May even though thay have been updated daily and other every week.

Will be interesting to see what peoples ideas are.

[ciml]

Possible reasons for frequent spidering:

1. Open Directory or Yahoo! inclusion
2. High PageRank
3. Frequently updated content (does this help?)
5. Use of words like 'news' (I doubt this is a factor)
4. ?

Possible reasons for frequent updating if spidered:

a. Frequently updated content
b. Lack of last-modified header if not frequently updated (not that the Fresh listing does any good)
c. ?

[Visit Thailand]

ciml -- thanks but none of those reasons seem to guarantee spidering. Page is identical to above , PR 6 etc.

One of the home pages for example has not been updated in the cache since May !!

[discod]

Any chance the...
robots visit metatag would help?
having dates on the page?

[Visit Thailand]

Got them, robots tag is :

<meta name="robots" content="index follow">

and dates all over the place.

[anthony]

Will this help? Have you seen this tag?

<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="10 Days">

I am not sure how if there are any limits on how frequently you ask the spider to visit or if it will always follow the request.