Q and A: Do search bots obey the revisit META tag?
Dear Kalena...
I was just wondering. About 3 months ago I was listed at the top of the search engines. I made some changes to a few pages as far as text and suddenly I fell to page 6 and lower. I was at #3 on google and now I am at page 3.
I also had alot of keywords. I am thinking perhaps the keywords were too much. I've changed the keywords to a few important keywords and resubmitted my site to the search engines.
Another question is pertaining to the bots. I have in my tags a reindex site every 30 days. How well does this work and do the webbots actually return in a month to reindex your site.
If you could take a look at my site and let me know what you think I'd appreciate it.
Sincerely
Russell
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Russell
Quite a few issues to cover there:
1) If your site was only launched a few months ago, it's quite common to appear in Google for a short time and then disappear into oblivion as the Sandbox filter is applied. My guess is that your site optimization to target specific keywords has triggered the Sandbox filter. If I'm right, you'll just have to wait it out until it's lifted again. This can take up to 9 months.
2) There's never any need to resubmit your site to search engines. In fact there's no need to submit in the first place because as long as there is a link somewhere on the net pointing to it, it will get found and indexed automatically by search engine robots. Resubmitting is a waste of your time - you're telling the search engines about a site they already know exists.
3) Spend some time improving your site's link popularity. It could really use it. Even gaining a handful of links from similarly-themed, highly-trafficked sites would improve your PageRank and Google ranking immensely.
4) Toss that "revisit after..." META tag from your code. Search engines move to their own beat and index your site on a schedule that suits them. From what my programmer colleagues tell me, that revisit tag is nothing more than an unsupported placebo that has been mistakenly used by webmasters for years (including me!). If you really want to control how Google indexes your site, create a Google Sitemap. For other engines, use your robots.txt file but don't expect all engines to obey it.
I was just wondering. About 3 months ago I was listed at the top of the search engines. I made some changes to a few pages as far as text and suddenly I fell to page 6 and lower. I was at #3 on google and now I am at page 3.
I also had alot of keywords. I am thinking perhaps the keywords were too much. I've changed the keywords to a few important keywords and resubmitted my site to the search engines.
Another question is pertaining to the bots. I have in my tags a reindex site every 30 days. How well does this work and do the webbots actually return in a month to reindex your site.
If you could take a look at my site and let me know what you think I'd appreciate it.
Sincerely
Russell
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Russell
Quite a few issues to cover there:
1) If your site was only launched a few months ago, it's quite common to appear in Google for a short time and then disappear into oblivion as the Sandbox filter is applied. My guess is that your site optimization to target specific keywords has triggered the Sandbox filter. If I'm right, you'll just have to wait it out until it's lifted again. This can take up to 9 months.
2) There's never any need to resubmit your site to search engines. In fact there's no need to submit in the first place because as long as there is a link somewhere on the net pointing to it, it will get found and indexed automatically by search engine robots. Resubmitting is a waste of your time - you're telling the search engines about a site they already know exists.
3) Spend some time improving your site's link popularity. It could really use it. Even gaining a handful of links from similarly-themed, highly-trafficked sites would improve your PageRank and Google ranking immensely.
4) Toss that "revisit after..." META tag from your code. Search engines move to their own beat and index your site on a schedule that suits them. From what my programmer colleagues tell me, that revisit tag is nothing more than an unsupported placebo that has been mistakenly used by webmasters for years (including me!). If you really want to control how Google indexes your site, create a Google Sitemap. For other engines, use your robots.txt file but don't expect all engines to obey it.
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