Ive got a question Under webmaster tools on my Google account on one of my domains. Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Aug 30, 2007. Is that normal it seems a long time ago?! Could it be because i did have just a placeholder on that domain before and not much content, e.g the page rank is 1. Ive updated the site with the content that i want there now. Would it have been best not to submit it to Google without the site fully complete? Do you know when i could expect Google bot to rescan the site? thanks -Dual
It would be best not to submit an incomplete site or a site with broken links. Complete the site set up a sitemap and submit it to google. A bot will surely run into your site in a few days. If google sees you update content frequently it will give you an option of a faster crawl rate. Your situtation is absolutely normal. ARonald
I've seen somewhere also (I believe google info) that higher PRs are crawled more often. This makes sense as they have more traffic and content is updating more rapidly. Mine at PR3 is crawled at least once a week. This site (digital point) is crawled at least once a day from the looks of it because I see backlinks from messages appear quickly.
I have a nothing site, PR4, a handful of pages and it gets crawled 3 or 4 times a week by the Googlebot. In fact, I'm in the process right now of analysing bot visits to it to see what the patterns are. The index page got crawled 4 times in the same day after I last submitted a sitemap. 3 days later the index page got crawled 7 times in the same day... haven't figured that one out yet.
I don't think it really matters if the site is incomplete, google will just come back to it again later.
If you look at the google SEO tools, they can tell you when they had problem crawling a website because of broken links, etc. It won't rank at all or well with obvious problems.
did you mean re submit it? i have just done that on the www dot google dot com slash addurl (sorry cant use links yet 10 posts+ it says) thanks for the tips hope it gets a scan soon does anyone else use webmaster tools on a google account to control their domains, thats where it tells me last when google scanned the site
This is not entirely true.. I have a PR0 site that gets articles updated within 10 minutes. I wrote the Wii one last night, and did a check on the title, it showed up 10 minutes later. Also, don't write info here in DP then a similar article on your site, DP will out rank you and will show up before your own article. I learned that lesson the hard way, thanks DP One other thing, before you submit an article, make sure you've proofed it before publishing it. I was in such a rush last night that google picked up the article, bad spelling and all before I could edit it. Another note about webmaster controls on google, it's not current. It shows a last vist of the 3rd, but it has cache from the 7th. My inbetween days have gone from 10 days to 4 days.
In my opinion, I would say that's more of a coincidence than anything. They cannot (and do not) spider every site (especially a PR0) every 10 minutes. That should be logical. It generally takes my PR3 about 24-48 hours to get crawled most of the time, although sometimes longer. I know this because I am always running backlink analyzers that show the current #. I also do manual searches at least once a day to watch changes. It goes a full week sometimes.