jpalmer - 4:09 am on Jan 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

>One of my sites (along with thousands of others) got banned >from AV a few years ago, apparently due to a technical glitch,

Same thing happenned to me, still haven't got any pages back in the index despite a phone call to the Sydney office when it happened and resubmitting regularly via basic submit (which I rather liked - contrary to most others on the WebmasterWorld forums), and like Jim, I too have fond memories of AV as my "first" SE.

They've been through a lot over the years and still managed to hold it together ... GO AV GO!

<start rant> But ... I'm strongly averse to PFI.

I'm the one providing the content people go to the SE to look for ... if you must get some money out of me, then please provide a model which suits me (not these every 48 hours jobs) and I might consider it where appropriate ... heck ... I must've been the only person who actually PAID to register our NS browser (back when you had the option to!), so I'm not averse to giving you poor ole USA's the exchange funds you so desperately need! ;-)

It appears from this and other forums that AV needs to get out there, index and include the indexing in results; after all ... what is the webmaster's mantra? " ... content is king ... content is king ... content is king ... content is .."

But I want to see some results before I even consider any exchange of $ for additional marketing oportunities.

So hustle your butts gals and guys @ AV ... the clock is ticking! <end rant>

Hooroo
JP