Hacking QDF with WordPress Plugins

Andrew Scherer

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Can we hack QDF with WP plugins?

Having content that is regularly updated not only boosts crawl rate, but Google gives preference to pages which are continually updated. However, for evergreen queries which don't change much, updating may not see much ranking benefit.

But if you think a query you're trying to rank for will benefit from freshness, here's an idea.

I noticed there's a couple "scheduled content updater" plugins on the market like TAO Schedule Update.

The problem is:
1) You can't schedule multiple updates at once. It would be ideal to "daisy chain" multiple updates over weeks/months at once.
2) The old post is replaced with a new post, so a new date is placed. Thus, the blog post appears at the top of the blog. (this doesn't bother me too much, but would be nice if it didn't do that)

Anyone out there that knows of a better solution than TAO?
 
Cool idea.
Do you know what the crawler look for to define if it's new and fresh besides the date?
 
Do you know what the crawler look for to define if it's new and fresh besides the date?

Good question. Every time the Google crawler visits the page they create a "fingerprint' of the content. Everytime they crawl, a comparison with that fingerprint is made.
 
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