A couple of n00b questions

[kiwiviktor81]

Hi guys,

I have been building an Internet empire for two months now, and have a couple of questions for the Warriors.

1. What does it matter that Google crawls your site? If they do this, do they update your site in the search engine? And does this mean that you go higher in the SERPs if you have new, quality content since the last crawl?

2. When I look for backlinks to my sites, not many backlinks come up but I know that more backlinks exist because I can find some of my articles that have been syndicated with the resource box intact. Is this because Google hasn't crawled the sites hosting the syndicated articles yet?

Thanks guys.

[UMS]

1. If your site has constantly updated fresh content, then Google will eventually end up crawling your site more often. If the content is good, then you can potentially go up in the SERPs.

2. Google (in particular) only show a very, very limited subset of the total links to your site. Just because a link doesn't show up in Google, doesn't mean Google doesn't know about it.

That said, it's always a good idea to ping your backlinks, create RSS feeds of your backlinks and create other backlinks to your backlinks, eg: social bookmarks.

[seobirk]

1) Yes, crawling your site means google makes an update of it. However, the result depends largely on the content
2) I was also once wondering why they don't show up, although the ranks were increasing. But instead of wondering about it and checking backlinks I'd suggest putting the effort in building more links and tracking ranks. But Google has crawled them, it just doesn't show all of them.

As the previous warrior suggested it's a wise thing to do:

That said, it's always a good idea to ping your backlinks, create RSS feeds of your backlinks and create other backlinks to your backlinks, eg: social bookmarks.