freshbot

It WORKED! I got google bot to visit my other sites by link 1 site to all

[teeceo]

I asked the other day if freshbot would jump from one site to the other if a link was added and then i did just that and BAM, freshbot and fresh cached. I linked my 1 site to all ten of my other sites(no crosslinking or backlinking)just one link from the front page and that did the trick. Love you google, googlebot and even you googleguy:. have a great new year all with the topdog of 2002, google. Peace out.

teeceo.

[troels nybo nielsen]

Congrats. Next step might be trying to make freshbot a regular visitor by constantly adding new pages and tweaking the existing ones. Freshbot loves new content!

[astounded]

I've been adding a new page to one of my sites every day. Then I put a new link to it on the index.html page. So, there is a new link going to new content every day. I've been doing that for a few months.

Still, GoogleBot doesn't come daily. The site is PR5 for the indext page, and PR4 for the next layer of pages.

I'll continue to be patient. But I wondered if the PR or some other factor is involved in Googlebot not doing daily spidering of my site?

[defanjos]

I believe your index.htm page has to change frequently also - change it often and the fresh tag will follow.

Also, a link from a "google fresh" site will help.

[troels nybo nielsen]

Most likely PR _does_ matter, but I don't think that this is your problem. One of my websites has PR5 for its mainpage and a few other pages and then PR4 to 1 for the rest of its pages. In december this website has been visited by crawler10 40 times, by crawler11 41 times and by crawler12 40 times. On some days only a few pages are spidered, but on quite a few days all pages or almost all pages have been spidered. I think that the incoming links may mean quite a lot. It is a good help to have incoming links from websites that are visited a lot by freshbot.

[teeceo]

"I think that the incoming links may mean quite a lot. It is a good help to have incoming links from websites that are visited a lot by freshbot."

I would have to agree with that, the site that I used gets changed almost daily and googlebot2.1 is always there. By the way, any threads on the different googlebots and what each one does?

Teeceo.

[coconutz]

>>By the way, any threads on the different googlebots and what each one does?

Check Key_Master's list:

Googlebot IPs [webmasterworld.com]

[AhmedF]

I would argue against content being the reason and lean more towards pagerank.

The front page of one of my sites, albeit with a few MINOR modifications, has changed only once since Decmeber 2000. The site is a PR6, with all internal pages, and directories one level deep all with PR of 6. Checking google results, the page is indexed once every 2nd or 3rd day - about 13 times a month.

The internal pages ARE constantly updated, but the front page is the only one that the freshbot visits so often.