Adding fresh, updated content to your website is surest way to get search engines engines to spider your site more often. Search engines are known to index sites updated on a regular basis more frequently.

Updating and adding to content on your website frequently will give you an advantage in search results and also help you expand number of search terms or key phrases you can get found for.

There are many tools and resources you can use to automate process of adding fresh, updated content and creating more spider-food on your website.

Here are six ways to add fresh content to your site:

- Weblogs or Blogs

A blog is an online diary or journal. Setting up a blog is easy and many free blogging services make it possible for just about anyone to get started.

Several blog programs allow your users to create an account and post their comments to your blog, thereby adding more fresh content for you.

I use Blogger.com to create my own blogs like Number One In Your Niche Blog. http://www.numberoneinyourniche.com/blog/

- Newsletters or Ezines

Publishing a regular newsletter or ezine is an excellent way to add content at regular intervals and get repeat traffic to your site. Archiving your newsletters online is one way of automatically updating your pages and adding new content.

As an example see archives of my newsletter online http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/

- Content Management Systems

As you are building your site or getting your site built, you need to do as much as you can to ensure higher rankings in search engines. There are a variety of little tips and techniques you can use to do this.

Meta tags & keywords - Meta tags are included in section of your site and are read by search engines. The two most important kind are "description" and "keywords" Description is a description of content of your site and keywords is a list of keywords relevant to page.

Research what people are searching for and use those searches (relevant to your site) in your meta tags. A great little keyword search tool is available here: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Find more great info on meta tags here: http://www.metamend.com/search-engines-meta-tags.html

Site content- Make sure you match your site content with your meta tags. Also, keep updating your site content. Search engines love new content. Try adding articles to your site or doing a blog. Do NOT let your site get old and stale!

Blogging - A blog is basically a journal that is posted on a web site. A person who blogs is a blogger. Blogs are usually updated daily or every other day. Blogs can be used on personal or business websites. Blogs can draw a lot of targeted traffic to your site. You can create your own blog here: http://www.blogger.com/start