Indexing... how often?

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Guys and gals,
how often should I index my sites? I've noticed a huge increase in hits and visitors while doing this.... are they just bots or people actually visiting my site?
Very new to the idea of indexing/pinging so any advice is welcome

Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author zimzalabim
    Hi,

    I normally set mine to every seven days and of course "ping" blogs on each new post.

    If you're using a blog (wordpress?) then a "ping" should be first on your list and is normally taken care of automatically if you've set it and you can also use places like pingmyblog.com as well. And submit your RSS feed to various places and/or use something like feedburner.

    Your hosting stats package will show all sorts of useful information about visitors, where they are cmong from and similar including visits from bots.

    Get familar with whichever stats package is in with your hosting - if cpanel based there'll be plenty though I'd suggest looking at Awstats.

    Yours,

    Andy.
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  • Profile picture of the author BTSands
    And whats the difference in indexing and pinging? Are both considered important?
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  • Profile picture of the author dmadnani
    Originally Posted by BTSands View Post

    Guys and gals,
    how often should I index my sites? I've noticed a huge increase in hits and visitors while doing this.... are they just bots or people actually visiting my site?
    Very new to the idea of indexing/pinging so any advice is welcome

    Cheers.
    Are you referring to getting certain pages indexed? If yes then you aren't really doing the indexing, it's the search engines that will index your content and possibly rank it according to it's keyword relevance.

    Pinging is just one way of many to index your pages. You may also try social bookmarking which is quite commonly used to index content.

    Not really sure by what you mean about the bots/visitors question because pinging can send search engine bots to your sites although they won't be counted as unique visitors in your analytics data (provided you're tracking it with google analytics).
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  • Profile picture of the author BTSands
    I was using the counterize plugin on my blog and was seeing that uniques were going up, as were page hits and visitors online.... dont know/think they are actual visitors though.... am I right?
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