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I checked the excite uk and that's been updated too.
LS a definite help, do a search for mp3, travel, real estate to see what I mean
Don't get me wrong I like the traffic, but this is crazy.
I feel like I left home for 2 years, came back, and my dog didn't even recognize me. Nothing. Nada. the Big Goose Egg.... And I'm in... but...gulp... I am in the middle of the pack:(
the exact same sites *rock* in the EX directory, so I have to question the value of LS in regular search (at least in my case.) If it did help, then my sites suck even worse than I thought.
Then each day i did a www.MYSITE.com search on Excite to see when my listing would change
The only results i have been getting for that site is the LookSmart listing. Now I'm not sure if i was correctly looking for whatever page Excite had listed for this site but the only one that came up was the LookSmart list.
Now today i did the same search for www.MYSITE.com and it listed 90 pages (every page in my site)
Althoug when I break down to the category listing my site still shows the OLD LookSmart description.
My guess is that they updated their DB with out the LookSmart newest information.
It's nice to see the old girl come out of hibernation. I thought it was a sign it was doa.
Our looksmart listings are not ranking well at all in excite. Anyone think they may have intentionally NOT ranked them well at all?
...my 'best' sites were the ones in the directory. I had secret hopes they might switch that tab for once and show the directory and LS a little love.
First, referrals have gone sky-high the last two days from Excite.
Excite has changed the algo a bit to give sites with a Looksmart directory listing a BIG boost compared to sites that do not.
Sites with a listing now have the listing shown with their result. Also showing the actual page title and the actual page description.
This leads me to believe that directory sites are NOW taken into account. Excite does not seem to be using the actual directory listing in the results but instead, they are factoring in this when returning results.
This is big. Makes a Looksmart listing all the more important.
<added>AltaVista is NOW doing the exact same thing as Excite is!!!</added>
I mean the EXACT same thing.
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Google lists the directory and also the exact page title. The only difference is Google makes up the description on the fly according to the search terms.
Everything else is NOW THE SAME with AltaVista, Excite, and Google.
A big wow! :)
I would love to see this engine fire back up.... too much to hope for
Weve been wacked - top 5's which have been there for 2 years are gone.
"Looksmart in regular search giving a boost" - I dont see any boostage in my areas!
Only consolation is that a site which was submitted six months ago is in and has hit the mark! problem being that clients stopped paying and its now a dead end! :(
It could be the search results are showing an older database to back up the new results. If the old page no longer exists, the spider either hasn't been around to find it, or, they are building from new (unlikely), or they just havent updated the older data and are preferring to show new data first - after all, the new data should be more up-to-date.
:D:D:D
that would make things very interesting... start watching your bot logs...
On one site we have come from nowhere into top 10 rankings on 10-20 2nd-tier terms, and in one 3rd-tier regional term the site occupies the TOP 10 results - unfortunately can look like you're spamming.
Results are from a very fresh crawl showing page titles that were changed less than 4 weeks ago. They are even doing better than Google here which is still showing 2-month old titles! (c'mon Google!)
There is some evidence of new ranking algo, results are definitely now more similar to FAST/Google (across our domains). What does everyone else think?
I can confirm that! Running through some sites and have already found 3 new listings in webcrawler (sites that were never submitted)... who would have thought?
A source at Excite says that essentially they are throwing no resources at WebCrawler. Still, I'd rather be at the top of the list on an engine, even if hardly anyone uses it.
In my opinion, Excite is making a mistake with WebCrawler. They should just have [webcrawler.com...] redirect to the main Excite home page. Otherwise when people get crappy results from WebCrawler, they are just as likely (more likely?) to switch to Google as Excite.
