I am wondering now about in bound links. Do an inbound link from within the site, from one page to another, count as much as from an outside source or not.

Thank-You

I was told that google as something called “sandbox” which is a delay from which a site is added to google index. I was told that the delay was 2 to 4 months. One of the reason why I wanted to check this out for myself.

AdSense does change the content of your site for you (check the source file). Now I wonder, does that change your modified date as well?

I did a small program in php that was inserting rss on my site. But that never changed the modified date of my html document … the modification was only made on the client side.

If AdSense only change the content of your source file, on the client side, and that google still see it as fresh content maybe googlebot doesn’t relly on the Modified Date after all.

I don’t think that when you do a search on google and you click on a site that it will change anything on it’s ranking in google. If it does, would it change the ranking on other search engines as well?

If clicking does change something, we could make a “clicker program” that would click our site over and over again until it reach number 1. Unless google only counts click from different computers (…)

How does google knows when our site as been modified?Does he send a little bot on the server to check the modified date of every document before sending the “real thing”?
Or does the “real thing” check the modified date by itself ?

It doesn’t take much to change the modified date of a file … I figure that google as someway to verify if the modification is worth mentioning. Maybe that if it’s not worth mentioning that it will lower your ranking instead of raising it.

I don’t know much about SEO, I’m just trying to find logical explications to what I read :)

My last site (which launched only months ago) indexed very quickly but my newer site (www.APigeonCalledFrank.com) is having some difficulty, despite them both having the same kind of articles.

Anyway, what do i know, I’m just a pigeon…

It’s usually a web hosting advert saying the domain is up for sale, or just a page of links.

Sometimes I think it’s just luck if your page is listed on the first page.

Some people will say you need lots of good content on a page, and then you’ll find a page with about 4 lines of text at the number 1 spot. And it will have the keyword it’s listed for on the page only once.

Older pages probably get listed higher in the rankings, because the people that are updating their web sites/blogs more often are making too many mistakes in the eyes of the search engines.

I love watching the changes in SE ranking of some of my sites, after I tweak a subtitle or some keywords in the text. Of course that is not something that can be done in blog posts (please, correct me if I am wrong).

There are two things: first the frequency Googlebot visits. My personal experience is that there is some relation between this frequency and the update frequency. Which does sound logical. A page that stays the same for 10 months doesn’t need a daily visit of Googlebot. My experience is that if a page is updated often Googlebot comes more often. This is not the only variable that’s used in the frequency calculation as far as I know, but, again as far as I know, it plays a role.

Second: ranking. The ranking algorithm is not something with just a few variables. I once read at Google’s site that they use about 100 variables. This means that it’s simply impossible to see in the ranking on SERPs the effect of update frequency because it’s impossible to discover all the other ingredients of other sites that play an important role. You just can’t fix all the variables of all the other players but one and compare. That’s also the reason why someone with just PR3 can show up above someone with PR7. Not because PageRank doesn’t work anymore, or is broke. But because people forget about the rest or guess the rest wrong at best. Of course this is hard by design.

The old site plays well because its domain is old, it has inbound links that have been there for quite some time etc. It has a reputation that has been stable for quite some time.

To answer the question raised in this article by Darren, based on my observations I say yes. Getting new content / new pages into search engines fast is important. If a page that’s updated frequently is visited more often by Googlebot links on this page are followed sooner. And to me that’s part of SEO: getting new pages in Google soon.

when the PR review came recently, my PR remains and organic traffic still sucks … so i can conclude that you can blog and create fresh unique contents till your head comes off but it won’t help your blog much …

you need to do more promotion (sincere of course) of your blogs by socializing and spend more time socializing to get back-links … if your traffic majority comes from google, you have to satisfy google’s terms and conditions – that is to be mr perfect or ms universe … such is the fact of seo … well i might be wrong …

Google’s patent application for their search engine algorithm is heavily weighted on age.

That probably explains why my older site that has never been updated is doing better now. That coupled with more people finding and linking.

I guess age is one way to weed out made-for-adsense and spam sites.