How long to get into Fast?

[martin]

How long does it take to be listed in Fast?

(It's definitely slower than Google and I think they don't do much if you don't submit your site.)

[lazerzubb]

If you have inbound links it will be picked up within 2 months, sometimes faster, they sometimes only start with indexing the index page.

If you're in DMOZ that should do it.

[edited by: lazerzubb at 10:51 am (utc) on Aug. 27, 2002]

[heini]

Watching it myself, Martin. Did a free submit 3 weeks ago, got an ODP listing at the same time.

I doubt the free submit has any great effect, but it doesn't hurt.

[martin]

>If you have inbound links it will be picked up within 2 months

But I've had inbound links (6-7 from PR6+) for around 5 months.

[lazerzubb]

PR doesn't matter with FAST ;-)

Do you get spidered?

It looks to me that none of the f2o pages are indexed (found one user who got his/hers pages indexed, to see use advanced search and restrict to f2o.org only).

[martin]

>Do you get spidered?

GET /robots.txt Fast PartnerSite Crawler

Nothing more.

[korkus2000]

It took 4 months after my odp listing for fast to show up. Free submit and great inbounds in the index didn't do it. I am not in the index yet but I am being spidered pretty heavily. It takes time. I think the odp link is crucial for fast.