Re: Search Sites

Thank you!

I've printed the information and tacked it up next to my monitor. I am 
seriously considering Web Position Gold though just to help organize my 
submissions and track them as my little kitchen-table business grows. Now, 
I'm not so sure.

I also find it interesting about Northern Light -- I had never heard of it 
until it started showing up in some of the traffic reports I have on 
various sites. Maybe they're still new and ambitious?

Just curious as to what everyone's opinion is on this, and, yes, I know 
WPGold was extensively debated here about a month ago.

Thanks!
Tamara

At 11:42 AM 8/8/00 -0500, Jim Tom Polk wrote:
>I spend a lot of time researching Search Sites. One of the things I did
>recently was to look at what provides the results to the major search
>sites. I worked through 19 of the major search sites, and I discovered
>something.
>
>If you submit to the Yahoo, LookSmart, and Open Directory for
>consideration of being listed, and then also submit submit to Inktomi
>(do this via HotBot) and Google for full page spidering and indexing of
>pages on your site, your site will be in either the Directory or Web
>Page results of 16 of the 19 top search sites, somewhere.
>
>Open Directory will get you listed in the directories of Lycos, HotBot,
>Google, AOL Search, Netscape Search, Direct Hit and Open Directory.
>
>LookSmart will get you listed in the directories of Alta Vista, MSN
>Search, Excite, iWon and LookSmart.
>
>Submitting for indexing your site to Inktomi (via HotBot) will get you
>spidered and indexed for HotBot, AOL Search, Snap, iWon, GoTo and
>LookSmart.
>
>Submitting for indexing your site to Google will get you spidered and
>indexed for Yahoo, Netsape Search, Open Directory and Google.
>
>The only majors that would not be covered, either with your site listed
>in Directory or Web Pages of a search site are Go (Infoseek) and
>Northern Light.
>
>
>--
>
>
>Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
>         ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>           lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>                 - G'Kar  "Survivors"

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