Google Bot Checker

[Kate 555]

How can you tell Google to update their database everyday for your website? I know their is a way and I thought I was doing it but I am not.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
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[stymiee]

You can't update their database for them. But you can submit a sitemap that tells them what pages you would like indexed.

[activeco]

In Google webmaster tools, using your account, there is an option "Crawlspeed", but IMO it is about session crawling speed, not frequency of crawling.
Maybe that was what confused you?

For that purpose there are meta tags :
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days"> .
I think most engines don't accept it if you want to speed up the frequency of crawling, especially if your updates are not as frequent or much sitewide.
However I think you can use it to slow down the crawlings if you want to save on bandwidth.

[dviney]

There are lots of answers to this question. But first a question for you: Does your content update daily? If so, then read on. If not, then go to step 5 or don't bother, as Google will quickly acertain that the page is static and any strategy will not work.

1) Get hosted on a fast server - Google hates slow servers. You can check how fast you are at Alexa.
2) Get lots of links from other sites - your page will get crawled more often.
3) Get a higher PageRank - you will get crawled more often
4) Sign up for Google webmaster tools and submit a sitemap:

Pages that change every so often:
< changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
< priority>0.5</priority>

Pages that change daily:
< changefreq>daily</changefreq>
< priority>0.8</priority>

Pages that hardly ever change:
< changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
< priority>0.2</priority>

5) If your pages doesn't have frequently changing content then place an RSS feed on it from a site which does update daily (using a PHP script like CARP rather than javascript)

Rgds,
D.