Website archive.

[adamnichols45]

I was just thinking about my main index page which I always try to change weekly in order for people to feel confident it is regulary updated!

Should I save the main index page and have a site archive somewhere and list the index pages by date so that the spiders have more content to look at?

Or will that be seen as duplicate content?

[Vis3R]

If the engines see it as duplicate content depends on how different the content of the pages is... if it's the same content, they'll see it as duplicate.

If it's just pages with the same rephrased content, i wouldn't do it.

[edited by: Vis3R at 5:52 pm (utc) on Mar. 3, 2007]

[MyPersonalBest]

Hi adamnichols45 -

Are you just updating the home page to make it appear as though it has new information? Or do you truly have brand new weekly items?

If you're doing it to simply make it "appear" as though you're updating your site, for heaven's sake, go out, find some new content, add it to your website and then point to it from your home page - place a date next to it such as "updated on..." - this way your site visitors will know that there's new articles/products/services, whatever it is.

But don't just move stuff around to give false appearances.

Secondly, there's no need to archive your pages - especially for the search engines.

When your site is visited by a SE, it first looks to see if anything has changed on your website, and if it has, it puts the new information in its index and also saves a cached version of your page.

It just sounds to me like you're trying to skate around doing some actual work on your website.

Don't cheat yourself. Get some new and good content on your site and you're sure to be rewarded for that.

KW

[adamnichols45]

No we introuduce new articles and have them as a special feature - All unique content.

[Vis3R]

If it's different, fresh, and unique content, the search engines can't see that as a duplicate content. If that's what your pages are, then i would keep an archive somewhere, because those articles will rank somewhere in the search engines and bring in some new visitors.