Are updated images considered fresh content?

Site refreshes an image daily. Does Googlebot ignore this?

[Thomas_D]

My personal site features a daily comic strip. That's the main draw for the site. Every weekday, the comic strip image on the main comic strip page is updated -- part of the PHP code on the page searches for an image with a name corresponding to the date on the server. For a comic strip site, the new comic strip image is the main reason why someone would constantly visit the site.

Does Googlebot swing by my site, see only the one image change and think that I never really update the site? Am I, a guy who is providing relevant and fresh content for my target audience every day, being penalized in Google searches because my content consists of just one image?

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Thomas_D,

I think this wopuld be a relevant discussion
Are you using If Modified Since? [webmasterworld.com]

The if modified since date would not change on the page so therefore, if the bot is using this to determine if content is changed, it would not consider that page "fresh".

[Thomas_D]

So even if the guys who run the server are using If-Modified-Since, if just the src attribute of the img tag changes each night at midnight, GoogleBot (and pretty much everything else) won't get a 304. Right?