Hey guys, whne you search IGN in any search engine, the title returned is just "IGN". But when you go to http://www.ign.com/ the title is different. I was wondering how do you do this? Thanks.

That is simply because the search engine has yet to crawl their websites or update their data.

That is simply because the search engine has yet to crawl their websites or update their data.

Uhm, I don't think that's it.

Uhm, I don't think that's it.

I do think it is it.... I changed my site a few months ago and google just updated it last week.

Not sure that google does it any other way unless you do a manual site submission.

A site like IGN gets frequent crawling.

Most recent cached date.. : Mar 16, 2010 21:06:59 GMT
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:A7bz9Xky0rIJ:www.ign.com/+ign.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a


Perhaps, you might also want to look at anchor text for inbound link.

That is simply because the search engine has yet to crawl their websites or update their data.

we're talking about IGN here :) Their site is HUGE, so it gets crawled regularly... What I think is that they got a small script that detects the GoogleBot and adjust the title for the bot so the short title gets indexed in Google, and not the long one?

What I think is that they got a small script that detects the GoogleBot and adjust the title for the bot so the short title gets indexed in Google, and not the long one?

User-agent: * Sitemap: http://www.ign.com/sm.xml

Hmm doesn't seem that way, now i wanna try to find out how they are doing it lol.

User-agent: * Sitemap: http://www.ign.com/sm.xml

Hmm doesn't seem that way, now i wanna try to find out how they are doing it lol.

Why don't we ask them and see what happens?

I believe google is pulling the title from the dmoz directory as a business name instead of the webpage's title tag.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35264

A blog entry about this: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/

Yes since they update their content frenq the search engine will crawl IGN at a much faster rate

Googlebot takes some time, but as you can see there are so many sites on the internet and new ones being added daily so googlebot is very busy XD but I think it's like a few weeks/months before googlebot actually crawls your site again after the last visit.

There is no set amount of time between bot visits. Bots adapt to each site depending on how often new content is updated. In IGN's case, since new content is constantly being added, Google bot probably visits several times a day. If you update your site once a week or several weeks, bots will adapt and visit less frequently.

Take this forum for example. Since there are SO much new content generated every second and minute, Google bot sits here constantly. I once posted a new thread and a minute later, it was already showing as a search result.

So in the end, Google bot and probably all other search engine bots treat each site differently and will devote more resources to those sites that are frequently updated.

Well you have to remember to that VB has SEO built in which will make posts, threads etc show up a lot better than a site without SEO.

But I agree with you too :)

VB and other CMS/forum software with on-page SEO aspects built-in will allow bots to crawl and find new content easier. However, it's not going to force bots to visit and index new content more frequently. Two different things.