only index page is updated..the rest aren't..y?

[darkroom]

hi guys..
for the past one month, if and only if i make some heavy duty changes to all the pages of my website, i get a visit by freshbot and it updates about 5-7 of my pages....i have around 40 pages in total...and when i make minor changes or no changes at all, all the pages except the index.html page are never updated and they go back to the cache of day 1(i.e. when my site was accepted by google)..

can anybody help me out and tell me what could be causing this?

p.s. i have got a pr of 5 for my index page and 4 or 3 for the other 39 pages.

[jdMorgan]

darkroom,

One of my sites has been up for years, has similar PR, and freshbot acts the same way you describe. Although I occasionally tweak all of the pages a little, it is no longer all that important to get them freshed. The pages that do need to be freshed are the ones with information that changes several times a week, and the freshbot has figured that out, and visits them frequently.

What you are seeing is normal, even for an established site. Once your site settles down and is relatively-well "tuned", the importance of freshbot visits for most pages will diminish unless the nature of the info on them naturally requires that they change frequently. If that is the case, freshbot seems to figure it out and visit accordingly.

HTH,
Jim

[steveb]

Don't pay any attention to the cached page. That won't tell you anything. For example, you can go to dmoz and look up some pages that have November cache's but have had new sites added, been crawled etc. Go to cometsystems.com and see what the cache date says on your pages. It is often much more current than the cache Google shows, even if the Google results show Freshbot results.

Also, you didn't mention if you were making cchanges to your index page, that is the key to getting Freshbot to crawl deeper. if it sees something new, it explores.