hi there, I installed the site search facility on a redesigned website about a week ago. Seems to work well, but isn't turning up results from any of the new pages. Google's cache seems to date back to May for pages that don't exist any more - so they must be the ones appearing in search results. I've set google robots to check every 2 days - index, follow. But no new content has appeared in search results yet. Should I just wait and see, or have I missed something? How long would outdated pages normally remain in google's cache? Any advice appreciated. thanks!
hi, That doesn't really answer my question. The site has plenty of links. Its just been redesigned with new layout, nav, content etc. so a lot of the old pages / pagenames that google has in cache don't exist anymore. Its been set up for google updates every 2 days, but so far, google only seems to have updated the index page, and no further. So at the minute, the search tool is useless, because all the pages it finds are either out of date, or don't exist. Has anyone had similar experiences with the search tool? Any ideas? Below are some of the lines in the head tags: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" > <meta name="revisit-after" content="2 days" > <meta name="Rating" content="Safe for Kids"> thanks!
When Tops say backlinks it does answer your question as backlinks bring googles spider back to your site to update its listings of your site more frequently, you can ask google to delete old content but for an up to date account of your site backlinks are one of the most effective ways of getting the spiders in there checking often/daily.