Altavista international

What is the best way to submit websites in local languages

[angiolo]

Do you know the best way to submit German websites (.de) in German language and websites in other languages (local domains)?

Do you suggest to use the Express submission or the free submission?

Is there any chance to be indexed with the free submission?

[heini]

Hey Angiolo

There's always a chance. Some people use free submit with Yahoo - and wham! in are they!

From my experience anyhow free submission on European AV's leaves you with a very, very small chance to get in there. Even if you're lucky it will most likely last several weeks till your pages turn up. Next thing: How would they rank? A new site could be buried for months.

Then there's Overture - at least on AV.de.

[whereami]

Either way you choose to submit, if your site has a country domain extention, your URL will automatically be filtered into the local AltaVista Index that matches your site's domain. Listing takes about a week via Express Inclusion :Basic Submit about 4-6 weeks.

Just this week, maybe yesterday? I noticed the Express Inclusion Service now offers to submit your url to additional regional AltaVista Indices (for a fee).

[infospider.com...] reads: You may also pay a subscription fee to submit your URLs to additional country indices that are relevant to your site. For example, if your site has a domain for France (.fr) and your site contains information about Germany, you may submit your URLs to AltaVista's German (.de) index. In addition, you may also pay to submit URLs with any of the non-country domains (.com, .edu., .gov, .org, or .net) to relevant country indices.

[angiolo]

Thank you Heini and Whereami!