Re: UKNM: Search Engines

[Ray Taylor]

We use submit-it for basic submissions and monitoring. But do the top seven

by hand, sometimes several times over. That's because 99% of your traffic is

likely to come from these, 1% the rest, and most of the major search engines

miss out a high proportion of index requests. Expect to wait sometimes

months for yahoo and then you need to repeat your request every two to four

weeks to get anywhere.


Don't get hung up on meta tags. They are important (some engines only) but

they don't solve the problem. You need to get the <title> right, and

structure the text within the page properly.


Most imporantly you need to take care not to hide the text from the search

engines by burying underneath a whole lot of frames and java code.


But mostly it's all down to leg work.


Ray Taylor

NMC/Adplan

0181 639 0015


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Date: 29 September 1998 12:49

Subject: UKNM: Search Engines



>Does anybody have a preferred resource (web or book) for  guidance on

>registering with search engines and good meta tag designs? I'm slowly

>losing my marbles on this as I don't seem to be getting anywhere. Sorry

>if this is really basic stuff but you seem to be the fountain of all

>knowledge (creep, creep) and if someone could point me in the right

>direction I would be really grateful.

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>Does anyone have experience of using automatic submission engines like

>Submit it and Addweb. Are they any use?

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>Daren

>0171 448 6603

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>www.hiscox.com <http://www.hiscox.com>

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