[ILUG] OT Google

[Thomas Pedoussaut]

Colm Buckley wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2006, at 15:45, Thomas Pedoussaut wrote:
>
>> Isn't sitemaps supposed to do that ?
>> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en_GB/about.html
>
> I could be wrong, but I don't think that sitemaps has any mechanism 
> for requesting re-indexing of any specific page.  You could submit a 
> sitemap index, telling it that a particular page "changes often", 
That's exactly what I was thinking of.

> but unless Tom's site is entirely under his control, that probably 
> wouldn't be possible.
That would be nasty to be able to submit a sitemap for a site you don't 
control. Imagine to potential of Dos (or DDos by the crawling farm), in 
listing thousands of pages as "change often")

-- 
Thomas Pedoussaut <thomas at pedoussaut.com>