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Here is a link to Alta Vista help for webmasters [altavista.com]. It will give you a good idea, though it might not be 100% current.
Best bet is to read through the posts in the AltaVista forum here for a lot of the more current information.
my page will be crawled instantly?.
What does the scotter really looks for in our pages?.
And one question it's really worth optimizing AV or not?
It is definitely not worth losing any sleep over to optimize for them now. Sites are rarely, if ever, getting added. I wouldn't bother at this point in time.
You're better off concentrating on Google now. At least it's reliable that sites will get in, even if it might take a month or two, and they're generating a lot of traffic.
It will also be worth your while to do some reading about the directories, they're very important. We've got special forums here for those.
Just my opinion, according to what I'm experiencing and reading.
i don't mind optimizing google i am already in the game of google.
is google only our future?.
is there any other searchengine to be optimized don't give me the list of directorys becoz all the webmasters cann't be able spend $ in yahoo or looksmart
Dmoz- okay i agree another source of traffic and pagerank for google mainly.
NO other SE stands equal to GOOGLE. AV out of the game.
i came to know that fas-alltheweb don't have much traffic.
please tell me what should i do in this case.
What should be my next plan.
thank you.
I recently found that Keywords search in AV is Case sensitive. My site is ranked 5th if the keyword search is captalised, and below 30 if not..
Seems to make a lot of difference for me..And I guess most people are lazy and use the non-capatal one.. :(
Like i think many new webmasters I get most from google.
I do get some AV hits but mainly on obscure [relatively speaking] keywords.
It sure seems like there's a total revamping going on. I sure hope this is just temporary. We can guess, but there's no way to tell for sure right now. If it were "the end" why would there be the obvious changes there are now, even the interface?
I have one little site ("sub-site" actually) that got no AV traffic for a few months, and it's back up, almost equal to Google traffic. It's just some free graphics, so that might tell something about the demographics. It is doing very little for anything else, though.
Granted, it's more reliable to gear up for Google now, but I still have hopes, I've always liked AV.
P.S. I know this would be a different forum but my boss had us promptly booted off of Yahoo just after us attaining the number 5 position for the keyword we wanted. All this with one swift depression (no pun intented) of the send button on a nasty gram calling attention to a competitors site (likewise our site(s). Anyone have any suggestions as to recovery? Are we going to have to start all over? Would love any input we can get.
Thanks,
nathan & ali
As to Altavista, a lot of people are reporting that their rankings are improving, so it looks like Altavista is refreshing its rankings. No one seems to know yet what's working, so I'd stay posted for more info. and updates.
As to your Yahoo situation, I'm not sure I understand what happened. If your site got dropped, you might be in a tough spot. We recently had a site dropped and it took me many many many calls to their directory support department to get the site added.
I'd suggest you try calling and emailing several times. If nothing works, you might have to resubmit. Be careful when you resubmit (depending on why you got dropped). I believe Yahoo keeps a record of URL's submitted, so they may not readd the same URL. If you think this might be the case, I'd suggest registering a new domain and submitting the new one.
Hope this helps!
The one we got dropped for was built specifically for Yahoo but we work for a guy who doesn't know much about the game just wants the sales. You know how that can be. Anyhoo he e-mailed Yahoo because he was upset about a competitor and brought unwanted attention to us as well. The whole trying a new domain name thing was the tactic we used and we're successful on until the fatal e-mail from the big boss to the editors of Yahoo. So, long story short I guess we'll take another whack at it with yet another domain name and this time tape our bosses fingers to the arms of his chair.
Off this forums subject but anyone having any luck with Direct Hit. I was doing fairly well on there and now I seem to fallen off the face of the earth. Anyone else experienced this or is it just me? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance. I appreciate the help.
Ali
For what it's worth, even with good webpage placement, AV has never been among my top ten referrers.
