Why does Google keep visiting my site?

[linton]

Hi,

I am not complaining but why would Googlebot keep visiting my site? It surfs sometimes twice in one day, and sometimes once every 3 days? Hopefully, I am doing something right with my website but why would it keep visiting so often? I only have my front page enabled for the spiders to crawl and the page has 2/10 ranking and is in the top 10 for some keyword searches. It is only a very basic homemade webpage.

Thanks,

Paul

[JamesR]

Are there alot of other sites linking to you?

[linton]

Hi James,

No, there are only 2 sites that link to me (the highest with a page Rank of 4) and I link out to about 10 sites (some of which I have only just added). Basically, my site is still in its infancy and I know that I have a lot more developing to do.

What I don't want to do is change something whilst I am developing and then loose the interest that Google has. How often would a search engine crawl a site, and why would it come back so often?

Thanks,

Paul

[hanuman]

I would start worrying when google will not visit.
LOL

[cdxp]

Maybe because you are changing content often. I've noticed that for sites where i change content a lot google visits more often. However it doesnt always seem to re-index.

Google seem to try and emulate the way people think. If your local news store only changes its magazines once a month then not much point in visiting once a week looking for updates. However if it changes content daily and your job is to keep track of what they have then you will need to visit daily. My own tests dont seem to indicate that changing content helps or hinders page rank. Google just comes for a look more often. Presumably based on some algorithm around change history.

As always your mileage may vary.

CDXP

[linton]

Yeh, I know that you are right but it is also important to know what the reason is for Googles interest so that my other pages (and any other sites) will attract the same attention. I beleiev that this information would also be of benefit to other members too.

[linton]

CDXP,

Thanks for your comments - certainly I have been changing the content often (if only because I have changed the design of the Logo on all of my pages), and that may be the reason for the frequent visits. I think that probably answers my question.

Cheers.