If you looked at it from a QoS point of view, it would make perfect sense that Google would want to check up on them more often, rather than a page deep down in the rankings that barely is seen by any visitors. Top ranked pages directly reflect upon the quality of Google’s search results, and I’m sure they’d want to be one of the first to know if a #1 site has been drastically altered by a hack, taking all those ‘I’m feeling lucky folks’ to a story of nightmare on search street.

I doubt it helps rankings, but there could be a correlation between high rankings and frequent spidering.

Michael: Get more value-passing links to point to your site.

I’ve posted some linking techniques on the Best SEO Blog and I have some linking tips coming up on SEO Theory next week.

now the question is : How you get out of there ? What i have to do to get in the main index ?

thanks

I definitely agree with your statement …and perhaps this is what has lead to the confusion around spider frequency equaling higher rankings. Concepts are often misunderstood and connected with things they should not be.

Growing up near the beach in Florida, I often heard people say not to hang out in three feet of water because that’s where most shark attacks occur. Well of course they do. That where all the people are. It really doesn’t matter if I’m in three or five feet of water. I have just as much change of getting nibbled at. I’m thinking this SEO myth must have come from the same kind of misunderstanding.

In my experience, spider frequency is almost completely dependent on content update frequency. If you want the spiders to come more often, update your content more often. But when they do come, it might effect your indexing. It doesn’t effect your ranking. Pretty straight forward.

In regard to secret SEO tactics, I think the biggest secret is that we don’t see the forest through the trees. The number one overlooked, and most valuable, aspect of SEO in my opinion is that we need to create answers (unique pages) that solve the searchers questions (search queries). By doing that we organically create pages that are relevant to those search queries and are useful enough to get links without asking. Do that, and you’ve hit the 80/20 rule of SEO. All the remaining “SEO tactics” are gravy.