[X-Newbies] continual update and tweaking is good

[Carter Tomassi]

Tony,
What kinds of changes are the search engines looking for? For  
instance, is an update notice at the bottom of a page enough (i.e.  
"Last update: Oct. 11, 2005")? What about a main page change that  
links to 100 sub-pages that do not change? Or how about adding an  
additional page to the 100+ sub-pages?

Reason I ask, google's robot is hitting me nightly. I have over 100  
pages with one photo per page. I change the text under some of the  
photos periodically and put a new date at the bottom of the page, for  
my own benefit. However, about 8 pages off the main index page have  
not been updated in three years.

I have noticed a drop in readership over the past several months  
although most of the site was revised between July and Sept. Several  
outside sites have links to my site which I know is a good thing. And  
Google is still a main source of traffic to my site.

Thanks,
Carter
http://www.messyoptics.com/


On Oct 10, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Tony Johansen wrote:

> (2)Also few beginners realise that continual update and tweaking is  
> good for
> a website. Create a site then don't change it is a recipe to be  
> ignored by
> the search engines. The spiders that crawl the web for the engines  
> love
> finding change. As far as they are concerned change is the mark of  
> an active
> site and an active business. Sites that don't change could easily  
> be for
> businesses that went bust. There are millions upon millions of them  
> and the
> spiders look for evidence of dead sites.