Variable PHP content - Good or Bad ?

Hi everybody.

I havea question I can't figure out for myself.

www.)crea-soft(.com

I had this site rank well for "jigsaw puzzles" 2 weeks ago.

I changed it (made several changes), and now it fell from #5 to #6-#8 (bouncing form +- 2 ranks, mostly it stays on #8).

One of the changes were that i added variable content. That is i change the screenshots urls every day, to rotate them using php.

Now I don't know if variable content if fine or not by google. Some say that google loves updates, some say that a site must be old enough and it will gain some ranks if it's stable.


Which one is it ????

i dont think the valriable screenshots would have to do anything with your ranking...
i guess its just a coincidence.....

variable content can help as it keeps changing, yeah - im clever i know lol
Googlebot loves spidering new content...

Keep it changing it will help

Dan

WHOA!! You've got a fight on your hands.... When I see one of my best rankings jumping around like that I get my guns out because those guys are attacking my position. I"ll bet if you put on a backlinks effort and sharpen your optimization you will get rock solid above them.

Respond to this vigorously. If you work really hard maybe you will move up to #3... or even higher. Let us know when you've kicked their asses.

Thanks for the response guys!

I've now confirmed from 3 diferent sources that google loves new content....

As for the fight i have on my hands, except that i'm competing with sites like shockwave and jigzone, that should be piece of cake ( yeah right ((((((((((( - wishful thinking... )

As for on site optimization, i really can-t do much more than what i already have....

I'm gonna try a backlink strategy. Google now spiders Flash and counts them as backlinks ( especially if you have a (C)opyright link inside ). I have some Flash puzzles on my site and i'm offering them to other web sites...

So if you ever need to get backlinks for a site with flash games you might want to know about this strategy....

Sounds like you are runnin with the big dogs... great job.

Thanks for the tip on the flash puzzles. That will likely work with other types of content as well. I need to think about how I can use this. Good tip.

Mutual help...