RE: Search engine question

by Blue Tapp <blue(at)bluesarthouse.com>

Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:10:43 -0500
To:	"Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan" <JDerrenbacker(at)KSHGS.com>, HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	REVERE
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I just read an article today about Google's positioning methods.  Google uses something called a 'Page Rank System' which among other things places sites higher that have many other sites linking to them.  In fact, according to the article, your site will not even show up in a Google search unless it is linked to by other sites.  Google allows submissions but does not encourage them preferring to let their spider find it on its own.  So that's just one engine; they all have slightly different methods.
Blue


>I've always heard the opposite! One of the positioning 'secrets' has been to
>submit your url via a link on another site. For example, post your link on a
>free webpage, and then submit the url of the free webpage. I've always heard
>that when you submit your own url it gets ranked lower than if the search
>engine finds it own its own. Each search engine is different though. 
>
>
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>Is it true that search engines do not 'spider' on their own? They can only
>crawl URLs that are submitted? 
>Just wondering...
>Thanks!

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