A little advice about re-submitting

[funkymonk]

I submitted my companies website to most of the top search engines at the beginning of the year. I have just changed the keywords as well as added some new meta tags. What I want to know is this. Is it a good idea to re-submit or do search engines just keep coming back and update the site automatically?
This may sound like a stupid question to most of you but I only have a small idea about this area of website design etc.
funkymonk B-)
rod@sameplanet.co.uk

 

[Glowball]

The big search engines have spiders that keep coming back to your site. You should also have a robots.txt file that will give those spiders instructions (see

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html)

even if those instructions say to index everything. Then I'd wait a week or so to see if you're updated on Alta Vista (that seems to be a quick one). Some engines like Google or Ask Jeeves will take FOREVER and not even reindex if you ask them nicely. Not that I have issues with Ask Jeeves or anything *hmph*

 

[foxdev]

True search engines usually will return every so often to refresh. Google, for example, will spider at various times, but only updates its index once per month.

You can pay to have selected pages on your site refreshed every few days and updated in Inktomi.

Directories, on the other hand, do not update and usually do not spider your site. Yahoo's directory and ODP/DMOZ fall into this category.

We also have a fledgeling SEO forum here at Tek-Tips: forum828. -----------------
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