Site not so much updated, now I want to change

[seoverynewbie]

I have a site that in past 3 years was not so updated frequently (let's say quite never) and I can see that google copy cache is VERY old...in some cases also one month.

Now I would like to progressively increase updates and the question is:

How can I help google to understand that this site will be updated more fequently?

I know that probably googlebot will get thi in months but ...are a faster method?

Another question is: index page has PR 4, and other pages as /link.php has PR 0. Link.php has lot of recent inbound links but I can't see better PR. Is it possible and why?

Thank you for help.

S.

[abates]

Make a Google sitemap. Using that, you can let googlebot know that a page has changed, and hopefully it should take the hint and go fetch the page more often. :)

[manca]

Hey seoverynewbie,

The best advice I can get you for your site to be more often spidered by G bot is to obtain some QUALITY inbound links. Quality means links from high traffic website with at least PR6+ (that are spidered at least once per day). In that way your site will be indexed and cached with the newest information it provides. Also if you do regular updates I recommend pinging your website (so bots/spiders could know there are some changes on your site). Some sites that offer pinging services are <edited> (although pinging services are used mainly for blogs, if you really update your site regulary...say few times per week it's cool to use these pinging services).

And in the I would agree with abates. Using Google sitemaps will automatically let G bot your page changes when you do an update (this process of auto notifying google and setting up the cron script is a little bit tough, but well worth it).

Hope it helps ;)
Manca

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[edited by: tedster at 2:27 am (utc) on July 12, 2006]