How to Get Google & Yahoo! to Spider Your Site More Quickly
These “tips” have both been around for a few months, but they’re still not common knowledge, so it pays to have them here.
Google – set up AdSense units on every page you want indexed. Googlebot has to come by anyway to check that you’re following the rules, and thus you’re often spidered more quickly. Heard from a little bird that the AdSense trick doesn’t work, but that installing Custom Site Search may…
Yahoo! – install Yahoo! site search on your domain and Yahoo! promises they’ll make short work of indexing your domain. It seemed like a dirty trick until a Yahoo! engineer told a crowd at a search convention that it’s public knowledge and not, in his opinion, corrupt or spammy.
