Increase Indexing Frequency
The rate at which your web site is indexed by search engine spiders is reffered to as the indexing frequency. It is important to have a high indexing frequency for your web site so that new information is quickly found and ranked.
How do I increase indexing frequency?
Good question! There are a number of different things that you can do to increase the indexing frequency of your web site. This page discusses a few of the most common things you can do and also a couple of tricks that you can use to your advantage to ensure that your site is regularly indexed.
Search Engines love Fresh Content
Search Engines love Fresh Content as they consider that recently added information is news and thus must be current and relevant. New information is highly desired by search engines.
This means that if you have a very regularly updated web site with lots of new content being added all the time you have a good base for a frequently indexed site. This is why many news sites and forums rank well.
Many people say "I Don't have time to write new content" or "my site is an ecommerce store so it doesn't need a lot of content" which are all valid reasons. Fortunately though, all is not lost. There are many other ways of getting a higher indexing frequency.
Links help you get Indexed
Getting links from Authority Sites is a good idea as these sites will likely have a high indexing frequency. This means your link will be found regularly too.
A high volume of links is another factor in achieving a high indexing frequency. The logic there is that the more times your URL is found in links on other sites that more times a search engine will come accross it, thus increasing the crawl rate of your site.
Add an XML Sitemap
Adding an XML Sitemap is a good way to tell search engines about your new content immeadiately after it goes on line. This means you don't have to wait for it to be found through natural links.
Having an XML Sitemap is especially useful for new sites that don't yet have many links. Make sure that all of your content is accessible via the XML Sitemap.
Random Content Trick
An SEO Files top tip is to include a PHP random content section which rotates thgouh a list of content, image and links sections in a random fashion on every page. This is implemented as an include file.
Each time a page is accessed some new content is accessible. This gives search engines and users some useful fresh content. This is an easy to implement best of both worlds situation.
The SEO Files can provide you with the code to do this on your site for $10. Just send a $10 paypal transaction to tstolber@googlemail.com and we will send you the code and instructions on how to implement it.
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Create fresh content, get links from Authority Sites, add an XML Sitemap and set up a random content rotator to ensure that your site is indexed frequently by search engines.