Hello all, I have a wordpress site, which contains only pages, i don't publish any post. But my wordpress pages are about certain values for example lets say weather. I use file_get_contents php code to pull daily weather forecast for a city and it is always on the same page like mysite.com/NYC/ The content of the page is chancing whenever the data is change on the website, from where i grab the weather forecast. But how i said, my website is actually not updated. therefore, i want to hear you experiences about this topic. Will google see my website like ''updated'', or because the page is actually not updated on my blog, will google see it like ''publish only once, and still same'' Please share you experiences. thanks
I don't think it will effect serp because it's a weather update (sort of like a widget) not your website updating with new content. I've had widgets on my website that would update whenvever I had a feed from another site (like a news clipping, or workout stats) the following day, and it didn't effect my serps as a new page being updated or new post. That would be like excessive pinging in my eyes but I'm not sure.
@smindsrt and @abyssal, as i said , i do not fetch any content, i am fetching the data,that they are same everywhere. Les say a page, currency exchange, in it daily dollar - euro parameter, lets say a page called weather, and in it NYC weather for that thay. How can it affect like " duplicate content" ? I mean, its same everywhere. But also changes day by day like an update. This is the question in my head. @affkb99 like you said, its like a dynamic widget but on page. It changes in internet world, but not like "updated in my blog." What do others think about it? will it effect serps? and also will google say "ok the site is updated", or just "let it stay whereever it is, as if only one time posted and that's all."?
For those who said duplicate content, that isn't the issue here. It's a weather report. Every single news channel in his or her local area will be carrying the same temperatures for the weather report. There are some things you can't change they must be duplicated. Now how google sees your page I think it depends entirely on how the widget is implemented. Is it hosted elsewhere and displayed in an iframe? When you view your source code does it actually show the changes in accordance with the weather in some sort of text? I will venture to say that this sort of thing will not help you in the "unique and fresh" content department. Otherwise, think about it. Every site that displays the time in the upper right hand corner would be considered "updated" every new day. New content has to be just that, new content not a minor modification to the same page.
@twilightofidols Not with an iframe, i get the data with php code : file_get_contents. I checked my page source, and there is nothing about the code, just like normal post/page the information like NYC, 03,26,2012 Cloudy etc...
That PHP code will return fresh HTML each time the page is accessed, doesn't matter if it's by a human or a spider. Day to day the weather may remain unchanged but week to week it will. The spiders will see the changing content and come back regularly to index it. You can set the preferred crawl frequency for posts and pages in your sitemap, theres a good Wordpress plugin called Google XML Sitemap that can do this for you.
@BossBozz thanks for sharing you idea. I am already using google xml sitemap plugin, but like normal websites. install plugin, activate, go to xml sitemaps tab, create sitemap. Like this. Is there anything special that i have to do with xml sitemaps in this situation?