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    • ClaireH-184886
      ClaireH-184886 last edited by

      What i mean by the question is, so on our home page www.in2town.co.uk we change the article under lifestyle story of the day, if this changes every hour, will this encourage google to visit that page more often or will then just ignore that and just visit each day

      would love to hear your thoughts on this

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      • Modi
        Modi last edited by

        You mean to say that the article on home page is updated with new article every hour

        Yes, as long as the content and snippet get changes and backed with Authority links - it will enable search engine to crawl website more often in lookout of fresh content. **Note - **Search Engines crawl site basis the source code, so as long as the content is changing frequently - so will the crawl too

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        • Chris.Menke
          Chris.Menke last edited by

          The frequency Google crawls your site/pages tends to be based on authority, rather than on how often it is updated.  So if your authority dictates that your page gets crawled on a weekly basis and you change the content on a daily basis, not all of that content will get indexed.

          You can see when the last time a page was crawled by using this search  cache:example.com/page and you'll get the last crawl date at the top of the page.  You can also look through your server log files to see crawler activty.

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          • ClaireH-184886
            ClaireH-184886 @Chris.Menke last edited by

            since the update of my site, things have been a bit funny. i was seeing my site get crawled every four days and now sometimes it is daily or every two days. is there anything i should do to get it crawled more often.

            You say about the authority, is there anything i should be doing to improve this.

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            • Chris.Menke
              Chris.Menke @ClaireH-184886 last edited by

              Yeah, it seems you may be a bit more focused on a symptom, rather than on a cause.  Authority is a function of your link profile and is Moz's interpretation of PageRank.  The greater your authority, the more often you get crawled, and the greater your opportunity to rank higher for more search queries.

              http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

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              • ClaireH-184886
                ClaireH-184886 @Chris.Menke last edited by

                cheers for that, will need to shift my focus, many thanks

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