Listing
Tied To Submitting
With some search engines, directly submitting
a page greatly increases the odds that the page
will be listed. This shows which search engines
operate in this matter. With the others, there
is no great advantage in submitting multiple pages
from your web site. Instead, they will simply
crawl your site and gather what they find of interest
independently of your submission attempt. There
is one big exception: if you use doorways pages,
you will need to submit these individually. Otherwise,
the search engine won't know how to find them.
But remember, just because you submit these pages
is no guarantee search engines will list them
where listing is not tied to submitting.
Submission
Limit
This shows the maximum number of submission each
search engine will either allow or keep track
up for a particular period of time. Keep in mind
that the closer you approach the limits, the more
likely you may attract a review of your site.
For instance, although you can submit up to 50
pages per day to HotBot via its online form, a
more conservative approach would be to submit
only 25 pages per day. Also remember that there
is usually no reason to submit each page from
your web site to search engines where listing
is not tied to submitting.
Submitted
Pages Appear In
This shows how soon to expect a page that you
submitted to appear in the listings of each search
engine. In particular, AltaVista is (normally)
particularly fast in listing any page submitted
to them. Be sure to also read the Notes column
for any particular details relating to listing
delays.
Non-Submitted
Pages Appear In
Most search engines will gather other pages from
your web site, even if you never submit these
pages to them. How many will depend on the size
of the search engine. Those that do "deep
crawls" will gather more. For sites that
are already listed, this is how long it will take
for new pages you add to the site to appear, if
you don't submit these directly to the search
engines.
Remember, there are no guarantees that all non-submitted
pages from your site will appear. In fact, as
described above, there are even no guarantees
that submitted pages will appear at all search
engines. Also remember that it's essential there
are links to any pages you expect to be added
without having them directly submitted. For instance,
if you have no links to doorway pages, then search
engine will not find them unless you directly
submit them.
Overall
Freshness
This column reflects how out-of-date a search
engine may be for pages that are already listed
in the index. For instance, AltaVista may revisit
some pages on a daily basis while others may be
visited once per month. But in no case should
any page be more than a month out of date -- at
least according to what AltaVista says publicly.
Please
Note that:--
This column simply provides
more details about submitting to a particular
search engine. It can change from time to time.
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