Dan Thies Answers
By Dan
Thies
Contributing Writer
Article Date: 02.20.03
I've had a
lot of success with most of the search engines, but my manual submissions to Alta
Vista are not getting posted. I am not spamming and have followed all the rules.
Any ideas?
Aloha,
Kelly O'Connor
www.sixd.com
Kelly:
AltaVista is *incredibly* slow at crawling the web, and even slower about
manual submissions. The only guaranteed solution is AltaVista's paid
inclusion program.
You can improve the odds of free inclusion by getting more sites to link to
yours, especially links to the pages you want included and other "deep"
content. If the submitted pages can't be found by crawling from your home
page, they may never get in.
Your question doesn't clearly state whether these pages are on your site at
www.sixd.com. If they are, part of the problem might be the way your site is
linked together. You don't have any text on the first page, and the first
link is to a Flash interface. It's just a thought, but making the HTML link
first might help a bit, as would using a robots.txt file to keep search
engine spiders off of the Flash portion of the site. Only FAST/AllTheWeb is
really doing a good job of indexing Flash, and it's not perfect. You're
better off making sure they find the HTML version.
About the Author:
Dan Thies has been
helping his clients (and friends) promote their web sites since 1996, and operates
a successful online publishing business. His latest book, 'Search Engine Optimization
Fast Start,' is available now at http://www.cannedbooks.com
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