Question about updating pages

Do frequent updates encourage frequent crawls?

[Adrian]

I've read places that updating your page with new text daily will increase your chances of getting crawled more frequently.

Is this true?

And if so, will adding a random text script have the same effect?
The random text would of course relate to the content of the site and could offer daily advice, facts etc.

Thx

[Chris_R]

I think google is still experimenting to come up with the best balance.

The two things the would be most likely to consider are:

1) How high is your PR?
2) How often do you update your content?

While I can't guarantee they will be more likely to visit you more often, by using the WWGD priniciple - I would say yes to the first question.

The second question I am not sure - probably if you used SSI - and it was a big enough change.

However, unless you REALLY need to be crawled more often - I wouldn't bother with it. Google will crawl you when they feel like it - and it should be often enough for almost everyone.

[nipear]

From what I've experienced and seen unless you're a PR6, it's not very likely...

[Adrian]

Thanks for the replies,

My main site is only a PR3 and is rarely updated, but it's a lot of the sub pages within this site with PR2's that I'd like to have crawled more as they have yet to be indexed after 2 months of being online.

Also, maybe I should know this but what is WWGD?

:)

[Polarisman]

WWGD - What would Google Do?

[Adrian]

hehehe, that's clever :)