How can I make sure Google revisits my site?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Johnburk, Jul 28, 2005.

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    I have updated my site last week and within 1 day it was changed in google. I was really happy and started to optimize it again.

    It has been 6 days and no changes in google. Still the same old title and discription.

    How can I make sure google revisits me more often?
     
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  2. WhatiFind

    WhatiFind offline

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  3. iskandar

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    may I add one more. make sure you have robots.txt first.

    BTW, the changes in tittle and description wouldn't change overnight. It takes time.
     
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  4. Johnburk

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    Thank you both for the advise.
    My robots.txt looks like this

    User-Agent: *
    Disallow: /*.gif$
    Disallow: /*.js$


    Is that good?
     
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    Gazzerman Active Member

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    My robot.txt just excludes directories, I prefer too keep all my images in an images dir and all my javascript files in a js dir, if you have done the same then this is a better option :)

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /images/
    Disallow: /js/
     
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    Gazzerman Active Member

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    Just to Clarify

    To remove all pages under a particular directory (for example, lemurs), you'd use the following robots.txt entry:
    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /lemurs

    To remove all files of a specific file type (for example, .gif), you'd use the following robots.txt entry:
    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /*.gif$

    To remove dynamically generated pages, you'd use this robots.txt entry:
    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /*?
     
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    North Carolina SEO Well-Known Member

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    If someone wanted to remove dynamically generated pages specifically but only those containing the userid (e.g. "&osCsid") without the quotes, such as: http://mysite.com/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=11111 would it be?

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /*&osCsid
     
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    I am not entirely sure whether the User-agent will determine the "&" as a wildcard, but using "osCsid" would be fine.
     
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