Direct Hit -- anyone been added recently?

[gethan]

I've posted to DirectHit about once a fortnight, starting about 2 months ago. So far none of my pages are included.

Has anyone had any luck?

I've emailed DirectHit (politely) on the addresses they have provided but no response yet.

[bobriggs]

The best thing to do is have the patience of Job, and then don't worry about it.

Second, make sure you are listed high in fast/lycos. I just got my first referral from ask.com yesterday and traced it back to DH. The only SEs that have the pages that are now showing up on DH are fast, google, teoma, and wisenut (deep crawlers). So I deduce that DH gets click counts from fast/lycos. The more clicks you get (and there could be other factors, such as time spent on the site), then the higher you rank in DH.

DH could also be getting click counts elsewhere, but in my case the pages in question could only be coming from fast/lycos.

[caine]

gethan,

No. I've had a site waiting to be indexed by DH for the last six months, last month i seen two ezspider30x.com spiders which did one get each, seemed more like url verifiers, i wait hung in the balance.

In regards of contacting ask Jeeves (DH owner) in the States (i'm in the UK), i just got put through to an answer machine by the secretary.

I've sort of given up on DH, but i need to get the site in their as the global impact, upon 'popular' listed sites on certain SE's, kill my rankings on them.

Probably leave it another month, then realy start to have a go at talking to the one.

Emails seem to be ignored by DH, so you're not alone with that one.

[toolman]

My philosophy with DirectDud is if I get in...it's gravy. If I don't ...so what.

One way or the other it's just not an engine (or a technology) that's worth messing with.

[gethan]

I'm glad I'm not the only one dissappointed by DH.

<So I deduce that DH gets click counts from fast/lycos>
I don't think the DH guys have set it up to use the stats from results other than those generated by DH - from what I've read you've got to be in it to have a chance on getting anywhere.

<My philosophy with DirectDud is if I get in...it's gravy. If I don't ...so what.>
It would be mine also ... but ... Lycos and HotBot (.com's) are both returning DH results on the first page. For my target market (UK) both search engines have been heavily promoted.

<but i need to get the site in their as the global impact, upon 'popular' listed sites on certain SE's, kill my rankings on them.>
Caine - You're not the only one ;) I wish google ran TV ads in the UK, I do just fine there.

[FreeBee]

> if I get in...it's gravy. If I don't ...so what
Agreed. One of our older sites does well on some important keywords ("most popular") but referrals are mediocre by comparison with those via other SE's. Many hours spent trying to figure out the DH dance card a while back for a newer site have been pretty fruitless. We get some good rankings but the bottom line revolves around referrals - it just doesn't make sense to put in too much effort with DH.

No point in turning our backs completely though, maybe things will change in the future....