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Hi,

I’m running a number of expression engine sites as CMS systems rather than blogging platforms, but many of them have a news page which clients keep up to date with an RSS feed attached to it.

However, another client is using WordPress as a CMS and when he posts news items to the site, they are being picked up by Google within hours of the article being posted. This doesn’t happen with the EE sites, and my WP client keeps emailing me telling me what a great site it is but the truth is I don’t know what I’ve done for this to happen!

Is it something to do with ping servers? I’d love this effect on my EE client sites!

Can anyone offer any pointers?

Cheers.

I am not sure it’s got anything to do with the CMS. Some sites get picked up more often (presumably those with a higher pagerank, and/or those who update more frequently), but the details are Google’s secret.

Indeed, our own sites, Derek Allard’s site, and my own (the only EE installs I watch very closely) get picked up by Google sometimes with freakish speed, I’m talking minutes.

Indeed, our own sites, Derek Allard’s site, and my own (the only EE installs I watch very closely) get picked up by Google sometimes with freakish speed, I’m talking minutes.

Ditto here. I have a few sites with Google PR of 6/10 and they get picked up VERY quickly. Others, not so much.

I wonder if it has anything to do with AdSense? It does seem (observation, not scientific) that pages with Google ads show a generic ad first, then relevant ads, then get listed in Google search, sometimes within minutes.

I’m not running AdSense; I think the page rank does make a difference though.

Same here, sometime a new post gets picked up in hours, it has taken a week on some occasions.

Obviously a lot does depend on when the search engine bot pays a visit!