How often is too often to re-submit a url I want spidered?

Howdy All,
I submitted on 2/21 and again today. since I've made changes to be more search engine friendly. whats the frequency that will be considered spamming?

Submitted to whom? Google?

I've never submitted a URL to Google, and my sites always end up in there...

The best way to make sure you get listed, is to have sites that Google already knows about linking to you.

I used a submission service and submitted to their list of sites, which includes google, inktomi, and yahoo. and waited a week before resubmitting.

google has my site, and also a site Im on that links to mine. and vice versa.

If Google already knows about your site, then there's no need to submit it. Submitting a site won't update an existing site, it's simply for adding new sites to the queue.

If Google already knows your site exists, you'll probably be getting spidered at least once a month. How often do your pages change/get updated?

Google has learned that the main page on 2 of my sites are updated pretty much on a daily basis, so it updates them every couple of days or so. How often it updates really depends on how often your pages change. Google learns to adapt to update certain sites more often.

Thats where Id like to reach, having google update every few days. at present, its been a week since it originally picked up my url. and Ive added better keywords, title and description meta tags, as well as moved to a completely different look to the site.

For Google to update you every few days, you'll need to be modifying your page every day or two - posting news, etc.

If your page rarely changes, then Google will rarely update.

lol. well, then it shouldnt be a problem. the more I read and find out about getting results on google the more Im updating. like 2 or 3 times a day Id say. so it should have detected my changes by now I would think.

Well, it can still take a while for it to realise you are updating that often - especially if you've only recently started doing it.

One of my sites (Reptile Rooms), is different every time you load the page - whether it's the list of the most recent forum posts, or the random image displayed from the gallery, there's a certain % of content that changes, but it took Google a while to realise that it was being updated that often. It did take a few months before it realised that it was being updated regularly.

crap. thats not good news. I have another domain name waiting to be hosted and soforth. this is quite a learning experience and i know what to do differently in the beginning now. I appreciate all your help.

Well, when it detects a new site that it's never seen before, it seems to check it every few days - at least to make sure it exists, even if not to update its index... So if you're making a new domain name that's updated regularly, Google should pick up on that fairly quickly.

If it's a pre-existing domain name that's been static & stagnant for a year, it can take a while for it to learn to change its habits when scanning the site.

is there a reliable way to check what the status is once youve submitted your site? say to yahoo or inktomi. other than just the standard. "your page has been submitted" message?

Not really, at least not that I know of.

Well, thats okay. Ive learned a lot this past week or so. my main concern was not over submitting and getting myself locked out.

Once you've submitted once, don't worry about it... Like I said, I've never submitted my sites, and I still don't worry about it, hehe. They'll find you eventually.