Last Modified Date

[franklin dematto]

What would be the effects of using a cron job to artificially keep the Last Modified Date of web pages current? I think some SE's give extra weight to recent pages, but I'm wondering that this might be detected as spam if there is no actual page change (although Google is probably the only engine that could catch this). Anyone?

[jeremy goodrich]

fast/alltheweb checks for 304 status on pages, and northernlight will do a head check for status, so it is definitely worth a shot...and this might help with AOL's caching of your data (forces them to load up a new copy).

I believe some have reported succes with NL this way, though for some, they also drive 0 traffic...but for fast, I don't know how it would work out.

Slick idea doing it with a cron job. Reminds me, I should learn more *nix.