I been living in forests for decades and realized internet lately; not surprisingly a new kid to this forum Recently started a blog, and my blog home page displays the recent 10 posts and Google crawls my home page on daily basis (as configured in my sitemap). now the Problem is, as I have new posts to my blog, home page content changes, but the Google search results display the content of my old home page (sometimes the data displayed in Google search results are not in my recent 10 posts). this could be misleading to the users. Can anyone enlighten me, how to solve this problem? Can I try something like, change the crawl frequency in my sitemap to 'never' for home page and set the frequency 'daily' for all the posts ? Thanks
Google does not really obey the sitemaps rules .. they are just used as guidelines ... The homepage will be crawled/indexed more frequently than the other pages because its the "MAIN" page .. You can't change the rules ... Cheers, Venetsian.
I remember reading in one of the threads that google crawlers are now respecting 'changefreq' in sitemap and not the priority (so much of reading hard to remember the thread id ). hmm, so isit like sitemap is a piece of xml, which I need to create it for the sake of creating it which may are may be respected? So i need to live with this problem.... To synchronize google search results and my home page, say I create static page as my home page (and 'no' references to any posts) and all the post are permanent links in the blog, does this help to improve my situation anyway? but in this approach, home page content doesn't change frequently, how would this impact the crawls/traffic ( to my already poor traffic blog ) Thanks
From my experiments shows that: google checks my homepage every few hours. google checks my sub-pages (linked directly from my homepage) every week or so.. Therefore if you want google to check your subpages more ofthen then you must have a lot of new links to all posts so g will be re-indexing it more often. Thats what I can say .. and you can't do anything to change it .. so better live with it .. Cheers, Venetsian.