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Free AV Submissions

Jill

1:56 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

Can you still get into AV with the free submissions? If so, how long does it take for them to crawl the site? I had a site that ranks very highly in many other SE's that got dropped from AV about 6 months ago for some unknown reason. It is a non-profit site, employs no real spam techniques and has quality content that is updated on a regular basis.

I have not been able to find out why it was dropped. AV does not answer my emails. Anyone have an email address that would help me? I assume I am going to have to pay to submit to get this site back in the database...

chris_f

1:59 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

AV does still do free submittions and as long as your patient I have never had any trouble. I resubmit every two months if my page doesn't show. I have only ever had to resubmit tice though. First or second times are charms.

agerhart

1:59 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

I just checked and as of today they have included a new site of mine that I submitted via their free submission. They did this within one month...this is the fastest I have seen. Hopefully they will continue this.

msgraph

2:03 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

Yep, you should get in there in about 3-4 weeks after submitting.

Macguru

2:10 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

>>this is the fastest I have seen

I remember, not even 2 years ago, AV indexed within a week. Does anyone remember how fast was Infoseek?

Jill

2:12 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

What about a site that was already in the database but was booted for some reason?

Marcia

2:51 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

They're showing new title and description for a site from only a couple of weeks ago.

Tigrou

2:55 pm on Apr 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

How long does it take now for Altavista to track site updates?

angiolo

1:06 pm on Apr 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

AV has included a new site that I submitted via their free submission about two months ago.

paulclarke

8:40 pm on Apr 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Is is necessary to submit all the pages one at a time or will the av spider index from just the top level pages?

rmjvol

10:27 pm on Apr 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

paulclarke,
you need to submit each page to AV.

Their free submit will let you submit up to 5 pages after you enter their "ransom note" code. That's the code designed to foil auto submitters. But their instructions will tell you it's fine to enter 5 pages, enter a new code do 5 more pages & so on.