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You should not need to keep submitting your website - it serves no purpose.
Assuming the links from your index page are working, the spider will eventually follow them.
Another way to help ensure your site gets indexed is to look for suitable incoming links to your website. For example, from the appropriate category in ODP. These carry "value" and helps to point the spider to your website.
Finally, there is no need to submit the index page to Alltheweb, simply point the spider to the domain.
Hmm - in theory this is right. Better said it was right. FAST spidered extensivly and if a new site had a good link to it it would be included automatically. Same as it works with Google.
As of lately however I certainly would recommend trying the free submit from time to time - it has helped sites getting spidered at least.
As to the problem of only the index page showing: You are sure the other pages are not indexed? FAST has a strong tendency to return just the index page of a site in serps, although the inner page from that site which is relevant to the query is indexed.
Makee sure to search for your urls with Alltheweb advanced search.
Importantly, the links from the home page must work otherwise the spider won't get past it at all.
>...not keep submitting your website - it serves no purpose.
To the extent of submissions all the time - I bet the inbox at alltheweb is spammed out. Quality links have got to be the best bet.
Will FAST continue to support free inclusion?
Yes. We will support free inclusion as we have in the past for single page submissions.
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It looks like fast is only going to spider your entire site if you're alredy on the list or you pay.
heini, I shouldn't have_to use advanced search. Not when they're paid for.
As to the problem of only the index page showing: You are sure the other pages are not indexed? FAST has a strong tendency to return just the index page of a site in serps, although the inner page from that site which is relevant to the query is indexed.
I did up a few content pages on a site and submitted one of them PAID_FOR. Well, it is NOT showing up after a week even though Lycos says it's submitted, but ONLY the homepage is showing up, which is a total Front Page mess and couldn't rank anyplace but Google because of the interior pages, and Inktomi, which indexes the pages you pay for. Obviously, FAST doesn't.
I PAID and they're only showing the homepage which is useless until it's torn apart with a complete redesign. Yes, the index page is in there, and it wasn't before. But that's not what I paid for. I'm fuming.
First of all, if FAST really has not included the url (meaning the specific page) you paid for, then - to my understanding of valid contracts - Lycos as the party you did the deal with is responsible to either correct that or refund you.
If however Fast did index that page, but buries it, then this might be bad luck in your case. But remember: this is strictly Pay-For-Inclusion. It's not pay for ranking.
If your index page shows up in serps where it really has no relevance, then it shows up because Fast "knows" about the relevant but buried page.
The way Fast handles collapsing/clustering of results definately needs improvement.
The original index page, unoptimized and very large in filesize, with the keywords not anyplace to be found hardly was at # 98. Thursday the new paid page was ranking fine at Lycos with the index page (not paid for) right alongside it, with a few very minor changes having been made to it.
I didn't look for a couple of days, but now they are both at alltheweb in the same exact spots as at Lycos, with the index page (unpaid) reflecting the current title and description.
Definitely not buried heini, and I consider that it was well worth the $30 ($18 membership + $12 per URL) to try it as a starting point. It's only for Lycos, which has delivered some PPC traffic to the site, and if it bears results we'll do a couple of more pages.
Added:
As a side-note, with the paid submission, while Lycos didn't do anything with any other pages on the site, they did report on how many pages were "spidered."
It's in ODP, so the site might have been picked up that way prior to when I had anything to do with it - but it was #98.
This happened to me yesterday.
I also noticed that what our Linked sites page Title seems to have bedcome truncated over night.... hmmmmm.
