Fiver_321 - 7:06 am on May 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Tigger,

You are really confusing me - probably because I am thick but :-

Before you said :-
"Fiver.
BOW = Best of Web"

And now you say :-
"You can't search on the BOW, it is a part of the Inktomi database and nothing to do with www.bestoftheweb.com"

Ok - so what you initially said was not referring to www.bestoftheweb.com.

I get that now - so - assuming then you need a link from BOW to get into BOW (In the same manner as google follows links then?), the next questions are the next logical step in my learning process :-

1. How do I establish whether any of my sites are currently in BOW?

2. Could there be a hidden search facility around do you think? a back door maybe as in a Puresearch equivalent?

3. If not, then maybe there is an indicator I am looking for on a SERP somewhere which tells me I am in or not?

I am targetting my efforts in the BOW direction primarily because of the statement made by Makemetop - which is :-

****"Sites which were in the BOW index are very hard to shift due to their inherent link popularity"****

With the above statement in mind I was thinking that it is of extreme benefit to be included in BOW, and also therefore, extremely detrimental to ranking if you are not in BOW.

Am I heading in the correct direction?

Cheers
Fiver.