[thelist] Re: Submitting to Search Engines

[Benjer]

I would agree, but everyone else has a major point.
For better listings/ranks google and others are relying more heavily on
"link popularity", as said you can be listed but to maintain constant high
ranks the more incoming links you have to your site the better.

On 11/10/02 7:33 am, "Neil Lee" <neil at N0SP4M.thenonsuchcom> wrote:

>> Its not possible to submit to google to be listed. That¹s not how they work.
>> You were lucky and had another site link to you, or were listed in DMOZ.
>>
>> Remember, even posting in forums such as these, one can be exposed to
>> crawlers.
>
> I'm going to have to agree with the others that have, well, disagreed on
> this point: you don't have to be linked to for a site to appear in Google.
> Their spider runs on a monthly basis (roughly between the 20th and the 25th
> of the month, at least from what I can recall) and it simply spiders sites
> that are already pre-existing in their DB, linked sites from the latter, and
> sites that are newly submitted.
>
> The portal I used to work for uses Google for their search results, and the
> search producer gave me a long, very illuminating tour of how Google's
> technology works; this is how I know this to be true.
>
> Neil
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