Sorry if this has been covered before, I couldn't find an answer. One of my web sites gets visited by googlebot about 10 times a day and according to the GGL webmaster tools the home page is crawled about every 5 days. But another site, which until recently hasn't had much change for a few months, gets visited by the googlebot about 5 times a day but the home page was last crawled in February! I am now updating the content on a weekly basis (and updating the sitemap), its not a constantly changing topic as its Self Catering accommodation. Has anyone any ideas how I can get google to re-index the new content on my home page?????? Cheers.
That's because you need to work on gaining quality backlinks to your website to help your site get indexed & faster. Content is king and always will be, but without backlinks to your site you won't get indexed as fast as you think.
Content is updated, but I haven't really been working on back links for the site. Silly me... I have been concentrating on other sites and not this one. I will have to get my back links sorted asap. Thanks, how can I forget the fundamentals?????? I just thought that if the googlebot was visiting a few times a day that would be enough. Thanks.
There are alot of weird things going on at Google. I have two blogs that have not been updated in the index. One has been two months and one has been one. I have not figured it out. I started a new blog and it was indexed and updated twice in two weeks. My backlicks don't even show up in the tools but they do in the search, so I am not sure what is going on at Google!