Excite is sending me traffic

How to optimize

[Chris_R]

I am starting to see more traffic from excite. No where near the level of Google, but some degree - enough to make me add something if it will help with excite and not hurt Google.

Anyone care to start a discussion on what works for excite?

What do they care about? Any good resources on this. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discussion about this recently.

[paynt]

Hey Chris, I'd love Excite to send me some traffic. The only thing I've seen it good for recently is as a link for my Google stuff.

Havent' read much either except this:

Excite@Home to file for bankruptcy? [webmasterworld.com]

And there was this

What works for Excite? [webmasterworld.com]

Excite & Looksmart [webmasterworld.com]

Are there any Excite updates? Any news on indexing, positioning and how Exite uses Looksmart's data?

[bobriggs]

I don't know the answer, but I had heard somewhere, that theming your site was good.

I'm getting some traffic too; it took forever to get indexed.

How ironic, though, that excite is selling off to iwon and infospace [webmasterworld.com]. I already have pretty good ink placings (iwon), so I think I'll just watch what happens to the db and concentrate on google right now. Theming seems to work for google, so if that works for excite, all the better.

[Chris_R]

You may be getting some soon - as I have not submitted to them or anything, they have just started picking up some of my pages - most are probably about two months old.

Everthing I have is optimized for google - so you may be in luck in the near future.

Thanks for that link - I missed that one somehow...

Oh, And I agree it is kind of odd - I had given up on them a long time ago...

[4eyes]

One of my co-workers got a good stab at the Excite Algo by accident.

He is in a band, and his band site, knocked together in a day, is a 4 page job with a rudimentary optimisation.

He got No.1 for a phrase with 290,000 competing pages. It wasn't even his main target phrase - the words just fell right. OK 290K is not the most competitive, but it would still require some work and insight to get a No.1 on most other engines.

The site has no link pop to speak of and no theming. It was a straight forward 'title, metas, alt tags, H tags and keyword density' approach.

Seems to me that if Excite updated more regularly the Algo would be easily fine tuned.

If I thought there was any mileage in Excite I would deconstruct the page (and keep the info to myself:)) but frankly I can't see Excite being around long enough for that to be worthwhile. Once they new owners sort things out the goalposts will be moved.

BTW he gets traffic from Excite, but gets 3 times more from Google for 'second page' positions. Still thats more than I thought he'd get.

[Robert Charlton]

>>The site has no link pop to speak of and no theming. It was a straight forward 'title, metas, alt tags, H tags and keyword density' approach<<

I'm noticing that, all other things being more or less equal, having target word(s) in the title seems to be the deciding factor.

Also, on newly indexed sites I'm not seeing much beyond the index pages... though on a few new sites I am seeing what seems like a randomly indexed page here and there.

On one site, a page that does show up on "more from this site" nevertheless doesn't (yet?) show up on a search for the exact page title, though the page is in the top 10 pretty much everywhere else for a much less precise search.

So, it's possibly a work in progress... maybe getting ready to charge for inclusion(?).

[vixie]

>>don't know the answer, but I had heard somewhere, that theming your site was good.

Whats the methology behind theming a site?

Sorry new to SEO :-)

[agerhart]

Theme Pyramids [searchengineworld.com]