Hi guys, I have a site on cellphone advertising and marketing. It's a fairly new site and I only have around 50 posts so far. I'm planning to increase the number of posts and fill it up with loads of content. If I post like 10 posts a day, will it have any problem? Is it okay for the site owner to update his site any number of times he wants in a day or the search engines have a certain limitation? That is, is there a count like a site should be indexed only so many times in a day or stuff like that? Could someone please explain? Sorry if it sounds too basic to you, I'm a newbie. And yeah; thanks in advance for your valuable time.
Edge, the search engines pretty much have a mind of their own. They will check out ("crawl") your site on their schedule. Generally speaking, you can make changes to your site as often as you wish. They will catch all the changes you've made since the last crawl of your site when they do a new crawl.
You are over worried about the search engines. They will not mind how many articles you add. The only problem could be if you are just posting old copied articles. think more about your users and what they want. Since you have RSS activated, go and get a ping-o-matic account (http://pingomatic.com/) and get as many suscribers as you can.
Jim, thanks very much for the clarification. Winagain, maybe because the site doesn't explain it properly or maybe because I'm a newbie, I'm not able to understand the concept of pingomatic. Could you please explain it in layman's terms? What exactly does it do and how can it help me get more subscribers? Again, thanks very much for your time. I really appreciate you guys helping out a newbie like me.
Thanks guys. But seems like Winagain didn't get to read my post again. So, could any one of you guys explain me how pingomatic works and how it can help my blog? Thanks.
It can help you alot, if you will post a new post on your blog search engines will automatically add that page in few days
What that does is 'ping' different RSS feeds telling them that you have updated your blog, and that shows on all those different sites your post URL in some form. You might get 1 -2 visitors from those, but the main thing with pings is that SE's crawl those sites regularly, so can help your SEO a bit. Well thats the way i understand it. If someone has another view, please feel free to inform contentedge so he knows whats going on
contentedge, sorry I didn't answer before. Advor is right to some extent. Yes, pingomatic will submit your feed to different RSS search engines telling them your site has been updated. this from pingomatic.com: Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated. If you check these sites you will see the Recently Updated Weblogs. Users will find this sites and if they find your site interesting, will suscribe to it. Of course, search engines will also find these and index your site faster. However, every people suscribed to your RSS feed (through a RSS reader such as my Yahoo, NewsGator and such), means that they are willing to read you on a regular basis. The more people suscribed to your feed, more recurring visits. You should try feedburner.com, where you can process your feed for different readers formats (they will also ping your blog automatically to a number of RSS SE, including pingomatic). I like feed burner because it will also give you statistics to check how many people are already suscribed to your feed. One feature native of their service and very practical. Here is a list of ping servers you should try. this is from Loco.M in another thread: http://rpc.pingomatic.com http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://bblog.com/ping.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://ping.bitacoras.com http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home http://pingqueue.com/rpc/ http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2 http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.britblog.com/ http://rpc.newsgator.com/ http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2 http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
How I see it is that if you own a site then it's yours. You pay for the domain, the hosting, etc. If you want to update it daily, weekly, monthly or even 50 times a day, then that's up to you. Building pages to quickly is a risk if it's increasing by over 20,000+ pages a day, that's only if it's a small site. Sites like Youtube has over 50,000 vidoes added daily meaning 50,000+ new pages daily. Forum sites like this one gets a lot of new pages a day. If you are a site where you users submit the content then sometimes it will grow considerably once it gets known.
Nope, actually adding more posts and posting more frequently will increase the spider activity on your side. Adding too much new stuff isn't that bad, but changing old stuff too much can cause problems.