If a page has a refresh, even once, returning visitors will get the latest upload regardless of the snippet that directed them there?
Yes… but the thing is, that’s exactly what would happen with OR without any refresh instructions. A link made from a month-old page won’t take someone to the old content if the page has been updated in the meantime.
The original question was (I believe) how to get Google to show newer content in search engine results. It isn’t possible to do that other than by getting Google to update its cache content more often. And that is only possible indirectly, by showing Google how incredibly popular and regularly updated the content is.
Getting Google to do something is one thing.
Displaying the latest content is a separate thing! If a Refresh script is embedded in a page…
Refreshing won’t do anything for Goggle updates, but at least even when an old link is clicked on, the latest page content will be shown if that page has a Refresh script? Right? Leaving aside what Google has cached, isn’t that the most important thing?
Adrian
On 19 Mar 2010, at 20:05, Keith Martin wrote:
If a page has a refresh, even once, returning visitors will get the latest upload regardless of the snippet that directed them there?
Yes… but the thing is, that’s exactly what would happen with OR without any refresh instructions. A link made from a month-old page won’t take someone to the old content if the page has been updated in the meantime.
The original question was (I believe) how to get Google to show newer content in search engine results. It isn’t possible to do that other than by getting Google to update its cache content more often. And that is only possible indirectly, by showing Google how incredibly popular and regularly updated the content is.
I suspect you both may be correct. All things being equal, if a person
has either never visited the page in question, or has not visited
recently, their browser will request the page from the server and the
server will return the latest version of that page.
But if a page is visited frequently, and thus is cached in the
visitor’s browser, then the next time they visit they might not get
the latest version. Adding a JavaScript redirect to the page address
plus a querystring would “bust” the cache and deliver the very latest
version from the server.
Walter
On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Adrian Williams wrote:
Getting Google to do something is one thing.
Displaying the latest content is a separate thing! If a Refresh
script is embedded in a page…
Refreshing won’t do anything for Goggle updates, but at least even
when an old link is clicked on, the latest page content will be
shown if that page has a Refresh script? Right? Leaving aside what
Google has cached, isn’t that the most important thing?
Adrian
On 19 Mar 2010, at 20:05, Keith Martin wrote:
If a page has a refresh, even once, returning visitors will get
the latest upload regardless of the snippet that directed them
there?
Yes… but the thing is, that’s exactly what would happen with OR
without any refresh instructions. A link made from a month-old page
won’t take someone to the old content if the page has been updated
in the meantime.
The original question was (I believe) how to get Google to show
newer content in search engine results. It isn’t possible to do
that other than by getting Google to update its cache content more
often. And that is only possible indirectly, by showing Google how
incredibly popular and regularly updated the content is.