Search Engine ReSubmitting is an outdated phrase, but content refresh as its now called is essential. The article discusses why sitemaps have replaced resubmitting and how important regular updates are for ranking.
Search Engine ReSubmitting
Website Resubmitting
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oogle, in fact all search engines
attach more weight to recently updated pages. Small, regular
updates will keep the search engines re-visiting
your site regularly. Avoid drastic changes if that
page is ranking well, or you might lose position.
"The name of the game is to attract a review of your site"
Search engine resubmission is an out dated idea from the early 2000's which involved resubmitting your website to the search engine in the hope that it would spider your new changes quicker.
The whole idea has been replaced by sitemaps. Your sitemap is not only a way of telling the search engines which pages you want spidered, but if you use the standard sitemap layout from sitemap.org its also a way of telling the search engines which pages have recently changed (via the last changed tag within the standard sitemap file).
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Each time a content page changes, the last changed date should be updated in the sitemap. In addition I would recommend putting a date on the article itself so that the viewer can see how current it is. For articles that are part of your site for years, you can simply re-visit the page every year or two, tweaking the article (bringing it up to date) and change the update date.
Also its wise to have some kind of news feed on your home page which is also updated to reflect any changes on your content pages. A headline will do. It is very imporant to keep updating your home page like this to encourage regular crawling by the search engines.
When you consider your home page is probably going to be your highest ranked page in pagerank, its worth demonstrating to the spiders that this is contantly updated.
