Professor,
I must disagree with your post. I’m not trying to call anybody out or offend anybody here. I’m just outlining my experiences with my website and the SEO world.
Changing 1999 to 2006 would have zero effect on your SEO. Also, Google would never know if the image was changed as long as the image name remained the same and the image size was kept the same. The only thing that might be worth keeping the old one up is that it takes time to create a new one, and find the right figures for it.
Personally, I update my content as much as I can. I don’t care if the page is PR6 or PR0, I still update it. I am changing the content on my homepage on a bi-daily basis, and I have only noticed better google rankings because of this.
“”The perfect search engine,” says Google co-founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.”
Well, if I’m searching Google and I’m curious about the casino affiliate industry as it stands right now, Google is going to find out that this isn’t quite what we want.
Additionally, the number one thing in ten things that Google has found to be true is 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
Seems like I’m the first one to have this opposing opinion,
Dan