Freshbot and Un-Fresh Pages

Still being freshed with no change to pages

[Nick_W]

Strange, just did a check on a site and it shows fresh as of the 21st but the page has not been updated in 2wks.

What gives?

Nick

[vitaplease]

Nick,

I have many pages that get the Fresh date without changes in ages.

- Did this page recently get Fresh inbound links from other (Fresh) pages?

- Is this page one of the highest Pageranked pages within the site?

Google has to visit the most important pages frequently to see if they have new links on them towards real new content/pages. I see for my site that these important pages get the Fresh tag as well, even if no content change has taken place.

Google never knows when you will add that new link to a real new (fresh) page, so it has to check more or less every day.

my fresh thoughts [webmasterworld.com]

[Nick_W]

Did this page recently get Fresh inbound links from other (Fresh) pages?

- Is this page one of the highest Pageranked pages within the site?

Good points! I should have thought a little more before posting, sorry ;)

The page is PR6 and I've requested some links this week so I guess they've been put up...

Thanks Vitaplease....

Nick

[Grumpus]

As near as I can tell, there are two types of "fresh" for your site. There are pages that you add or update that will get freshed if the freshbot can follow your "map" and find them.

Then, there are those "map" pages. Those are pages that Freshbot has determined that will show it where the fresh pages are to be found. Often it's the "front" page of your site, but not always. I have 6 pages that freshbot uses as a "minty map" that get freshed first, change or no change. Once it's gotten those 6, it moves in and grabs the stuff that's truly fresh.

NOTE: The freshbot seems to need to "learn" your site and it can take a month or so of fresh crawling for it to determine just what your "map" pages are. I had a deep page that would be of no interest to anyone that was linked to by a high PR and respected site. It took 3 weeks for the freshbot to work it's way to the proper pages to find out what was really new and minty.

G.