Lets say I have 1000 articles. And they are not linked to from any other page from my website. They are just sitting on my server. Will the spiders still find them?
I would say 99% no. If there are no entry points (links from your site or any other site) for spiders than they won't know your content exists. However, depending on different desktop tools, toolbars, and spyware your content might gain an entry point if you've browsed to those articles. Although most of it is speculatory and unsubstantiated (and probably just paranoia).
i agree but unless you have submitted to repositories and article sites but you still have to put links for spiders to crawl back to your site
oooh ooh! or maybe you can use a sitemap!! thats the only way i think making a sitemap and submitting to google would get the spiders in there!!! lemme know if this works
if you not applied meta no cache tags on that articles which is on your site. if you give links to your site then it's good for your site.
Most probably not. Just think of it as your computer. If you delete something of your computer, then you can't see it, but infact it is still on your computer, but it is just unlinked so you can't get to it unless you use some sort of software. It is the same with content on your site. If you have not got any other sites linking to it and your site doesn't even link to it then the search engines will not know that it is there unless they use some sort of software or there is something used on your computer that finds it and it suddunly accidently gets listed into the search engines.