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Price increase and new country indices

         

markd

9:16 am on Dec 14, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Sorry if this is old news, but I got an email from InfoSpider today announcing a price increase:

1 URL = $39
2-10 = $29
11-500 = 19

They are also offering an add URL direct to 'country specific' indexes, stating that 'your URL must be relevant to the contry indices that you select'.

Presumably this means the domain rather than the content of the page?

Seems as though the choice of indices covers many EU countries, plus India, Australia and NZ.

wolfy

3:37 pm on Dec 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Hi markd,
regarding

"They are also offering an add URL direct to 'country specific' indexes, stating that 'your URL must be relevant to the contry indices that you select'."

Do you know if will it possible to submit sites even to AV.de? Or is it already possible?

thanks
wolfy

heini

4:15 pm on Dec 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Those additional country submission possibilities are announced since beginning of October
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum18/293.htm [webmasterworld.com]

Here's AV's list:

AltaVista Country Indices
.au (Australia) .at (Austria)
.be (Belgium) .br (Brazil)
.ca (Canada) .ch (Switzrlad)
.de (Germany) .dk (Denmark)
.es (Spain) .fi (Finland)
.fr (France) .ie (Ireland)
.in (India) .it (Italy)
.kr (Korea) .nl (Netherlands)
.no (Norway) .nz (New Zealand)
.pt (Portugal) .se (Sweden)
.uk (United Kingdom)

markd

4:50 pm on Dec 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Whoops! Sorry for lagging behind!

I am off to write 'I must check out the EU Forum more often' 1000 times!

Mark

heini

5:17 pm on Dec 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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>I am off to write 'I must check out the EU Forum more often' 1000 times

you wouldn't do this manually, would you?

No really, this information was hidden in a thread on AV update problems, so it's a good thing to bring it to the surface again. For some reason unbeknown to me AV still is a factor in many european countries.

angiolo

6:59 pm on Dec 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Does it mean that if you want to cover the German language market you need to pay three times?

.at (Austria)
.ch (Switezrlad)
.de (Germany)

heini

10:09 pm on Dec 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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>if you want to cover the German language market you need to pay three times?

Since all three maintain seperate db's (=apply different filters), yes, I'm sure you'd have to pay thrice.

<added>
>Presumably this means the domain rather than the content of the page

When you submit a URL with a country-specific domain to Express Inclusion, your URL will automatically be added to the AltaVista local index that matches your site's domain, as well as AltaVista's global database.

</added>

wolfy

10:19 am on Dec 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

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<When you submit a URL with a country-specific domain to Express Inclusion, your URL will automatically be added to the AltaVista local index that matches your site's domain, as well as AltaVista's global database.>

It means that if you have a .ch domain you pay for AV and it'll include in the ch DB, if you have an .at domain it'd be the same for .at Db.
And it means also that if you want to include your domain in German language in all three DBs you need to have three different domains ( one .de, one .at, one .ch ) right? If not you should have the possibility to choose in which DB you want to include your site.

(edited by: wolfy at 10:24 am (gmt) on Dec. 18, 2001)

angiolo

10:22 am on Dec 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

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OK!

I am going to submit trice..

>your URL will automatically be added to the AltaVista local index that matches your site's domain, AS WELL AS ALTAVISTA'S GLOBAL DATABASE.>

Will I be penalized for spamming the Altavista's global database? :-)

heini

10:44 am on Dec 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

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>Will I be penalized for spamming the Altavista's global database?

Sounds funny, but I'd wouldn't deem it impossible. I would ask infospider.
Members here have reported strange behaviour from AV for sites under multiple TLDs.