Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Business SEO Basics Better SEO Through Content Variety and Freshness

Posted by amourief
amourief
5,469 Points

Question about SEO time-related variables:

if you have a site that doesn't change much besides for blogs - is there a way to "refresh" the pages on your site periodically e.g. every 6 months without actually having to update the content? What I mean is to make it appear refreshed for search engines specifically. The truth of the matter is that the content on the site doesn't in actual fact change much but the content is always nonetheless very valid. So from a technical perspective, what can you do to help the situation if the content isn't actually going to change.

E.g. should you re-submit your sitemap to Google? Or do something else?

2 Answers

Errin E. Johnson
Errin E. Johnson
22,458 Points
Errin E. Johnson
Errin E. Johnson
22,458 Points

Great Question: my first thought was what meta keywords you are using in your code <meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials"> and does your <title> tags etc have relevant meaningful names that SEO algorithm search for. You could create your own algorithm to update your own meta tags based on the updated SEO engines, such as Google. You would need to research SEO Optimization and keep updated on their algorithm and set your site accordingly to have the best possible results. Bottom line, you have to do the research on key words and SEO algorithms and decided whats best for your site. Keeping it simple, make sure your meta tags are in line with popular SEO engines and make sure any HTML tags have meaningful names and values.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp http://searchengineland.com/search-update-impact-on-seo-content-strategies-240558

amourief
amourief
5,469 Points
amourief
amourief
5,469 Points

Thank you for the answer Errin and for the links. I will do further research on this as it affect many types of sites like corporate sites etc. where the content doesn't often change.