Why Do New Sites Get More Traffic Than Old Sites?

[johnlim]

Hi, Have anybody notice that once a website get cached then this "new" cached site can get a lof of traffic then two months later, the same site get less and less traffic. So, usually once a site is cached, it can generate a lot of orders and then order become less and less.

Have anybody notice this and how to let the "old" site also get a lof of traffic?

[onfire]

New content, or refreshed content on that page.

I see when the bot comes that it will always grab the index for sure, and then in general it will only go after the pages that have had had new content added etc, or there's been a change, how big or how frequent the change has to be i am not sure on but i am sure others here can confirm this.

But the bot seems not to like pages that never or rarely change.

[johnlim]

I test a site, I update the contents every 6 days from Jan 8, 2004, now I have changed two times.

I also notice that the google bot have come to my site several times, but the new contents are never cached...

[johnlim]

I just change a little two lines a page, is this enough to let google bot to cache the page?

[onfire]

I just change a little two lines a page, is this enough to let google bot to cache the page?

there's only speculation on how much needs to change or how often.

One thing i have noticed since the last PR update, my sites PR jumped up a level and it is now getting fresh tagged daily, and the bot is grabbing more pages than it ever did before on its previous visits.

Before it was only fresh tagging the index page, and then only once a week would the rest of the site get fresh tagged, not all but most, twice at the most, but now its daily, which is excellent for the new pages and for the pages that have had changes.

So along with changing or refreshing page content, PR seems to be also a factor in how far the G bot goes and how frequent it visits.

keep changing your content, get more of those quality inbound links, which will increase the G bots activity on your site.

[Dayo_UK]

I have also noticed that a new site *seems* to get a boost when first listed and does well in the Serps for a month or two.

In my experience the site then drops down the serps and then slowly rises again as more inbound links and page rank increases.

Building links and keeping content fresh will hopefully be the way to retain and or build on your serp positions.

Shame link building is so dull.

[rogerd]

Shame link building is so dull.

Dayo_UK, it doesn't have to be...

Can Link Development be Fun? [webmasterworld.com] ;)

On the original topic, I had a client point out a new competitive site that was doing fairly well in Google. It showed no links, had low PR, and no apparent optimization, yet it was competing fairly well with well-linked, reasonably optimized sites. I have to imagine this is due to the "new site bounce".

[johnlim]

how big or how frequent the change of the contents then can let googlebot visit almost every day?
Can anybody share his experience?

[rogerd]

Johnlim, you might try either searching the archives or starting a thread in Google News on this. The short answer is that frequency of spidering by Googlebot has depended more on high page rank than frequency of content changing.