Started sending me traffic

I must have done something right..

[DataKernel]

Over 200K pages of mine popped into one of the result rotations.

Managed top spots (below the paid listings) for all target phrases including a 1 word term.

I did free submit the index page a while back, nothing more..

[minnapple]

DataKernel,

I have been down on AV services lately (paid and free), hopefully your news is a sign of positive progress on their recent lackluster performance.

[starec]

DK, congratulations.

From what I see on AV nothing really changed for us - the same obsolete SERPs as in the last x months. It still brings some minimal traffic though.

[Hobbyist]

Congrats.

I've given up trying to get a good rank on altavista. For a while I was making progress for a time has high as 10th, but unfortunately recently I got dumped back to the 4th page..

Sigh..Still hanging on for google, but on the Plus side FAST and hence Lycos seems to like me..more and more..

[bird]

I just noticed quite a number of new pages in AV. So far, the listing delay seems to have been around 3 months for free submissions, but right now I see some pages that were submitted more recently, as well as some that they probably spidered on their own. I didn't bother to check any rankings, but new listings are definitively being added to the index.

[JonB]

just notiec- 3 days ago all 120 pages of my domain that was "banned" from AV alsmot year ago was in again!! i thopught i am dreaming. got top positions on many keyowrds.

but now it is gone again. :(( site is out again completely! i hope they get this back. it was SO nice to see traffic fro AV again. like in good ol' days :)

is AV in update time now?
And is there any "preview" database like google(www2,www3) for AV?

added: they are back again!!! YES! all of them. they were not in AV index minute ago.

i didnt change nothing on my pages, i submited to AV like 3 mo nths ago.please let it stay like it is now :)

[Ove]

I have seen some traffic from an old site i have optimized that one for some strong kw`s and there are som traffic from those kw`s but iam not seeing an update in AV but Av is sending traffic for the new kw`s
strange but good!!!

/Ove

[JonB]

all pages out again. i guess it is update time.

[pgsbs]

Well altavista must have optimized their submissions again. Didn't have much traffic until just a week ago, but since then.... I get the most visitors through Altavista!!

[jeremy goodrich]

I just finally looked at the logs for a site, I don't pay much attention to AV, but they finally indexed the site. Funny thing is, I started to ban their bot for the last three months, so it's not recent submissions they are indexing.

Perhaps they decided because the got a 403 on my site, it was finally worthy??? I'm confused, but happy that the site got in...surpisingly it's actually high enough that it got clicked, I assumed anything new would be appended to their data set.

Anyone think this is a sign of changing times over there?

[heini]

>a sign of changing times over there
There has been a press release today, saying the db is updated finally. Had several mentions, but couldnīt find the thing itself. See also here
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum18/335.htm [webmasterworld.com]