Robert_Charlton - 7:58 am on Apr 15, 2001 (gmt 0)

Ever since the Inktomi announcement of a downgrade for submissions without external links, I've been a little bit cautious, and have almost adopted an across the board "let them spider my ODP listing" strategy.

There's also been some conjecture on the board, not substantiated, that AltaVista might have a submissions penalty... and there's been conjecture too about the relationship between Fast and ODP listings. We all know that Google spiders ODP. It's not clear anymore whether Google will be spidering Yahoo.

Problem is, ODP listings in some categories without editors are taking a long time to appear.

I'm wondering which engines others feel you might just as well go ahead an submit to, and which to wait for other directory listings or external links to be spidered (or to submit those listings to be spidered).