Comments on: 5 Questions: Do You Have Answers?

By: sfowler

sfowler — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:52:25 +0000

1) It depends, since Google never exactly follows the requested crawl rate. It may crawl a daily site weekly, or a yearly site monthly. By providing a crawl rate you’re just helping the bots sort things; it’s never an exact science.
2) Yes.
3) Yes.

By: david king

david king — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:27:09 +0000

from personal experience google local is a growing area. therefore ip must make a huge difference.

By: Stever

Stever — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:10:45 +0000

More on cached pages. I noticed that caching takes a bit of time, well after it was actually indexed. A couple days or more.

And there are two cache versions at different time intervals. The “text version” cache can be more up to date than the full cache version if content is updating.

So if the page you were looking at was not cached, check again a few days later, it might be there.

By: António Dias

António Dias — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:04:00 +0000

#2 – I’d think that Google will also check you against a database of users with a similar track and all the metrics they check before serving you more ads. Short answer is yes:)

By: Matt McGee

Matt McGee — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:56:23 +0000

Interesting to see some disagreement in the answers here, but that’s good, I think. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, folks.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:23:30 +0000

#4 – there is a meta tag the equates do ‘Do not show a cache of this page’ – Google is just following that tag.

#5 – I’m pretty sure its purely for bookmarking purposes.