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 Altavista
The URL to go to if you want to submit is
http://altavista.digital.com/av/content/addurl.htm
The FAQ page of Altavista is:
http://altavista.digital.com/av/content/questions.htm
The robot will go through your whole site and index every page. Altavista determines the priority of matches
by indexing the words closest to the beginning of the front page. Altavista does index the title, the meta tags and the body of the document.
Altavista uses the first 1000 characters of visible text as a description if you forget the meta description tag.
Lower case letters in the query are generally considered as matching the corresponding upper case letters as well.
The top pages have nothing to do with the keywords, other than the
lucky occurrence of keyword in the title.The title MUST contain
your keywords.
Excite
The URL to go to if you want to submit is
http://www.excite.com/Info/add_url.html
The FAQ page of Excite is:
http://www.excite.com/Info/listing.html
Excite also powers AOL NetFind and Netscape Search.
Its robot DOES NOT recognize meta tags. The only exception to this is site
summaries, which appear in the search results. For these summaries Excite is looking for the 'meta description'
tag if available.
Excite is programmed to grab as much information as it can from your site
by taking the exact words on the page. The first 20 words of page content are the most crucial for indexing relevancy.
Excite does not consider comment tags, alt. tags, JAVA script or other items
in the code that are not clearly visible when the page is displayed on your browser.
Excite gives pages with a keyword imbedded in the URL a higher position.Excite
uses link popularity as part of its ranking method.
Especially at the beginning of your page, be as concise as possible
and use your keywords.
Webcrawler has similar ranking algorithms as Excite. Usually,
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