Exactly. Try inserting the short Javascript code in a page that Goggle currently has an old version of.
Upload your page. Search with Google and check if the page refreshes with the latest info.
Guys, I’m afraid you’re not quite understanding how Google does things. In search results it shows snippets of data from the cache of content (not whole pages) that it has stored in its mammoth databases. And when someone clicks to visit your site they go to the site - not a cached version of your site. There is a ‘Cached’ link option, but anyone who uses that will probably WANT to see the old page. (And it is possible that Google might disable refresh stuff in what’s cached, too.)
Basically: you CANNOT control the Google results page in the way you seem to want. You MUST keep a high frequency of updates going and get people to link to you before Google will regard you as worth recrawling at a higher frequency. This will take time. But it is the ONLY way to have more up-to-date info shown in search results.
Was wondering - if google crawls my site daily (which it does according to my stats) - whats it doing if not looking for changes so to update that 3 week old page?
Justin,
Your site does not have enough changed content like a News site.
BBC News changes every 24 hours, so Google would like the Home page.
Your page is not an out-and-out News site, you just want Google to reflect
latest small changes. So I was suggesting that Javascript is the compromise.
If the layout (content) of the page did not descend below say 550 px and fitted
nicely into a Browser window without the need to scroll, the Refresh would not
drive users nuts by forcing the page to top at Refresh.
The page would remain stationary.
However, Walter’s solution refreshed just once when the page is first opened,
thus avoiding driving users nuts whilst they’re reading it.
Walter’s solution of refreshing just once works well in this situation.
I’ve taken the liberty of uploading a sample page (with some of Justin’s words) with his code… http://www.clubtype.co.uk/news.html
Here’s the code…
SeeWalter’s email regarding how to use the script.
To test, just make any kind of obvious change to the page, upload.
Launch Browser and revisit the page to see the latest content.
Adrian
On 17 Mar 2010, at 18:32, Justin Easthall wrote:
Yes I do get it. Thanks.
Was wondering - if google crawls my site daily (which it does according to my stats) - whats it doing if not looking for changes so to update that 3 week old page?
Thanks Adrian - But this still doesn’t solve my original prob of Google not updating, I thought this was poss but the only way I’ve succeeded so far is to remove the chached page from Google via Webmasters, then resubmit it - this takes about a day to recache so not too bad. The page itself I dont have a problem with, that always shows the most up to date version.
Why is Google crawling my site every day but not updating the cached page…
We’re taking about two different aspects.
The Google cached pages/snippets are crawled and supplied by Google.
So long as Google keeps supplying even a cached snippet from your site,
visitors clicking on the snippet will be supplied the whole page.
If a page has a refresh, even once, returning visitors will get the latest upload regardless of the snippet that directed them there?
Adrian
On 18 Mar 2010, at 12:48, Justin Easthall wrote:
Thanks Adrian - But this still doesn’t solve my original prob of Google not updating, I thought this was poss but the only way I’ve succeeded so far is to remove the chached page from Google via Webmasters, then resubmit it - this takes about a day to recache so not too bad. The page itself I dont have a problem with, that always shows the most up to date version.
Why is Google crawling my site every day but not updating the cached page…