Site Up-date Rate

Web Page Update rate:

So how do web site pages get up-dated. There are a number of reasons a page may be up-dated; however if the update is to a hidden HTML error, or a new Ad format, the "Last Modified" date at the bottom of the page may not change.
The "Last Modified" text is only changed if a visitable portion of the content is updated.


E-mail comments may cause a page to be up-dated immediately, or if I happen to read it but take no action, stay in the cue for months.

Documentation errors will definitely result in a page being up-dated.

Low page visits may also cause the page to be updated. The server counter provides this data.

Under construction pages: I keep a list of about 20 pages at a time. I add this page type to get the page address indexed by search engines because it takes 3 months to get a page rank. Of course there is a disclaimer at the top of the page indicating a "blank" page. I don't see an issue of adding a holding page as long as it's kept to 20 of 1,200 pages.

Old Pages: Pages that have not been up-dated in a while. Just sort the html files by 'Data Modified'. A few years ago I noticed that as a page dropped in the rankings, one way to increase it's ranking would be to increment the saved-as date.

So some days I may work on new content, while other days work on pages under one or more of the above topics.

The cycle time is more than a year to work through all the web pages.........