[Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?

[BJ Cook]

Another interesting point is to note that Yahoo is a directory, not a search
engine.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christina Wodtke
To: SIGIA-L
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?


I'm not sure how seriously I'd take this: the author doesn't seem to know
yahoo, inktomi, altavista and fast are all just yahoo now.
Also, he mentions forums as a good place to list your URL (great, he doesn't
mention the important of relevant text around a link, so now forums are
probably going to get linkspammed), but most forums are currently
uncrawlable. However, he's dead on regarding directories, and that actually
affects placement as well as getting crawled.

Were it me, I'd not pay for search placement, but would pay for directory
listing.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Listera" <listera at rcn.com>
To: "SIGIA-L" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:43 PM
Subject: [Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?


> Forget paying Yahoo to get included, here's an argument for not bothering
> with SE submissions at all:
>
> <http://evolt.org/article/rdf/20/60314/index.html>
>
> Too simplistic?
>
> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba
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