Do I need to re-submit to the search engines if I change my Web page code?
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September 14, 2007 1:59 PM
Not necessarily. Search engines' spiders revisit indexed Web pages at predetermined intervals. Code changes will be detected and reflected in the page ranking upon next visit. On rare occasions, re-submitting a page might ensure that the engine detects the changes faster than it would by relying on the spider's scheduled crawl. Note that not all engines allow resubmission of URLs.