If you sign up for google alerts you will see that you recieve alerts borken down into "News Alerts", "Blog Alerts" and "Web Alerts". What I have noticed is that new blog entries get picked up a lot quicker and a lot more frequently than if I just put the same entry on a website. As a blog is effectively just a website, in a certain structure, what is it about blogs that makes then get spidered so quickly ? How can I apply this knowledge to my website, so when I add new stuff it gets spidered and listed as quickly as a blog? With regard to "news" alerts, how does google seperate these from blog alerts and web alerts? Does anyone have any thoughts on the above and how it can be applied for SEO and their experiences in doing so? Thanks for the advice.
If you give the spiders something new to chew on when they get there, so much the better. As they learn that your pages are worth spidering (because your pages regularly change and contain useful content), they will get crawled more often. What this means is that the best way to get a new site, or a new page indexed is to create a link from an already indexed page. But bear in mind that if the page that contains the link rarely gets crawled, it may take quite a while before that link is of much help to you. When people speak of "quality links" they often fixate on the page's Google Page Rank. But while Page Rank is important, it does not tell the whole story. Often a link on a page with no PR at all will still send the spiders your way. It just depends how often that page gets crawled. For instance, getting your link on a blog page -- even a brand new one with no PR -- is usually a very effective way to get search engine attention. The reason is that the search engines often visit active blogs on a very regular basis.