By runeveryday on

i setted the Minimum cache lifetime to 10 minutes, when i published a "page" as admin and log out,could google crawler know i have updated my website before the cached 10 minutes. any tips would be apreciated!

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runeveryday commented

Do this affect the google search engine index my website ?

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tnlone commented

It depends how many times have you instructed google crawler to crawl your site, and no cache lifetime does not affect crawlers...if you want crawler to come to your site more often then you need to direct it so

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runeveryday commented

i can't understand about " how many times have you instructed google crawler to crawl your site" ,can the times of google crawler crawl my site set? how to set this ?
"you need to direct it so" can you tell me how to direct it. any tips would be appreciated.

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tnlone commented

You have two options either use correct robots.txt to configure crawlers

For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

or use module nodewords , and go to it's settings page admin/content/nodewords/meta-tags and click on "Default and specific meta tags" link,

on that page you should find an option "Revisit after" which directs search engine crawlers...

Hope you may find this helpful, if not let me know

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runeveryday commented

GOT it,thaks for your reply.now,the confusing thing to me is if you have setted page cache for anonymous user,who vist the site will not see the content you updated during the cached time, during the cached time,does google search engine know you have updated the website ?

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tnlone commented

When you set a page cache time, everytime a user access a page on your webserver, he/she is given a cached page, which mean the content has already in the cache. However, if you renew content, it may not display, that's where AJAX comes into place. However depending on the length of the cache time you set and crawler instruct you have set. Also any crawler check the links in the site structure...
So it will pick up the new content..

Page cache is just having a buffer in your webserver, so that if that page is requested again from a client computer it does not have to be reconstructed again.

SO don't confuse cache time with content update or search engine crawler. One does not affect the other.
Read the following article

http://www.maxi-pedia.com/how+to+increase+google+crawl+rate