Freshbot becoming more important?

[JeremyL]

Normally I see very little change in my keywords throughout the month with usually just a little shuffle on the monthly updates. But all of the sudden this month freshot seems to be throwing a few major kinks in the ranking. Basically there are a goup of sites that has started to use a popular website and thier demo BBS that has a PR7 to boost thier rankings on a daily basis. I don't see this as new but I do see this as new in the way freshbot is treating them. Right now, every day, these sites are posting thier links on the demo bbs since every nigh the bbs is whiped clean. But every few days, freshbot rolls through and puts the new version of the bbs at like #4 on the search and a site that keeps posting to them at #3. I know it's fresh bot hitting it over and over again since the cache (and sometime url) of the bbs that is at #4 changes in both rank (a few spots) and cached page.

I would just do this myself, but I'm afraid it will get tagged for spam someday and I'll get penalized.

So is freshbot becoming more of an update bot? Or has this been happening for a long time and Ive just never seen it.

[Jesse_Smith]

::So is freshbot becoming more of an update bot?

I think it depends on the sites PR. I got one new site that twice in the last month was listed for a day and then dumped, but another site, a vBulletin message board, that I've had for two years but has never been able to be indexed until last month because of the session ID, has had freshbot visits about every other day, keeping about 55 pages (every mesage board index and a few other files) listed for the past 20 or so days as if those links were added by the deepcrawl, and havn't been deleted at all since they were added. So yes, the freshbot can do exactly what the deepcrawl does, add a link and keep it listed!

[freejung]

I find that if you have a link from a high PR page and you update your pages regularly, freshbot will keep you in the listings pretty consistently. However, it will not register new links or change your PR, so you get listed at an assumed PR which is presumably based on that page's position in your site's navigation structure.

I think that fresh and deep crawls are still different, but you can stay in a long time just from freshbot if you have a good link.

[Yidaki]

JeremyL, i know the site you're talking about. I'd stay away of doing the same dodgy stuff like the folks that post their garbage their. Allthough the sites that are "promoted" through this sample gb (there are more, btw) currently rank very well, i hope google will nuke them. This poor man promo is to stupid.