** Reply to note from [log in to unmask] Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:04:32 +0100
> Do people think it is a good idea to subscribe
> to one or more organizations that provide
> bulk submissions to search engines?
>
> If so, do any come highly recommended?
>
Yo Sally,
This might give you a lot of relevant info.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
But as I cannot help myself here are some personal and biased thoughts
bearing in mind that I have not checked the above URL for a long time.
I would not bother with bulk submissions gadgets, if nothing else, I do not
wish to receive more c**p email. The fact that they may submit to 100s of
engines is rather irrelevant as there are not that many that would index a
*.ac.uk site. Many engines are content or domain (country if you like)
sensitive. So you are with the big ones which at the end of the day is what
you expect people to use.
Some internet service providers seem to be setting up their own engines (or
are they?) others seem to have their own interface to one of the big engines.
> Or do you most people laboriously submit all important
> pages as and when?
Rather pointless if your whole site is being indexed and all pages are
linked. Watch out 'cause some engines may not like multipole submissions for
one site, others may have a limit in how many files will be indexed (good
idea to have many separate servers real or virtual) othres may only go so far
down a tree. There may be a delay of, say, a month before any indexed
pages show up in searches.
If your aim is to get pages to move up to the top of hits there are 4 basic
methods of achieving it.
Method 1. The cruel type. Fill up with absolute garbage and repeat the
important word as many times as possible. In meta tags, <H1> and again and
again and again.
Method 2. The standard way. Write your page, forget about it, and 2-3 years
later you can never find it again. Pages which do not change go down the
ranks.
Method 3. The proper way. Have quality information (not too much so
significant words carry a high rating against the rest) and change it
reugularly.
Method 4. The scientific method. Analyse how the each engine produces its
hits and design your pages accordingly. Use significant words in title or in
H1..Hn and so on until you match what the engine likes. Off course if your
content does not change then you are back to method 2.
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All in all if you have some pages that you MUST get indexed I would go to 5-6
engines that matter and resubmit the 'Home Page' of your new set of info.
I have no doubt that there will be other people out there that can give more
specific advice.
Regards
Charles
BTW. I will now go and read searchenginewatch. :-)
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