fresh bot script

will it work?

[CoreUnderneath]

If I had a script that displayed say a "tip of the day" would this keep giving me fresh tags in search results?

Thanks,

Darren

[Grumpus]

Changing content is only PART of the reason freshbot freshes pages. It wouldn't hurt, but I doubt it'd make much, if any, of a difference in the positve direction.

G.

[ciml]

Possibly, but not definitely. I think that Google are still tweaking their Freshbot, so you shouldn't expect consistent results.

[Shakil]

CoreUnderneath,

You fail to mention the PR of your site, as this in my opinion plays a major part in the "Fresh" bot paying a visit.

After all NO point FreshBotting a low PR site, is there?

Shak

[ciml]

The key difference IMO is between Freshbot visits, Fresh listings and Fresh tags.

The Freshbot can be encouraged to visit by getting good links to the URL (PageRank). Having an ODP or Yahoo! listing might also be involved.

If Freshbot finds that the content has changed, then you may get a Fresh listing soon thereafter. This listing will have the little green date (sometimes called 'Fresh tag').

After a short period (a day or two), the 'Fresh tag' will be removed, but the Fresh listing might remain for a while longer.

Later, the Freshbot may re-visit and find that the content has changed, possibly leading to a Fresh listing and Fresh tag.

[SuzyUK]

Sorry off topic re: original question but in reply to Shakil

After all NO point FreshBotting a low PR site, is there?

I have a 3 month old site, content being added daily, with a low PR and the next crawl is when I expect a listing (having read the "dance" threads, and followed "protocol") Site has been visited by Freshbot regularly this last 2.5 months and now this month, by Deepcrawler too.

How do you propose "stepping up the index" without Freshbot coming to visit? I thought deepcrawler only came after freshbot...but feel free to correct if I've misunderstood

Suzy

[Shakil]

suzy,

I stand corrected, as I had NOT seen that in my experience.

Good luck with the listing.

Shak

[CoreUnderneath]

Sorry for the lack of infomration. My site is new and this is the first time it has been crawled. Although my site(s) are still getting fresh tagged.

[rogerd]

CoreU, sorry if this is obvious, but I thought I'd point out that the script would have to be a server-side script to deliver changed content to a spider like GB.