Alta Vista:
Notes from their FAQ
"Sometimes sites submit a large number of pages to AltaVista
hoping to have them show up often on our result pages. They submit
pages with numerous keywords, or with keywords that are unrelated to
the content of the pages. Some other people submit pages that
present our spider with content that differs from what users will
see. We strongly discourage these practices."
"Attempts to fill AltaVista's index with misleading or
promotional pages lower the value of the index for everyone and
render Web indices and your search experience worthless. We do not
allow URL submissions from customers who spam the index and will
exclude all such pages from the index."
"If being found via search engines is important to your business,
be very careful about where you have your pages hosted. If the
hosting service also hosts spammers and pornographers, you could
wind up being penalized or excluded simply because the underlying IP
address for that service is the same for all the virtual domains it
includes."
(Update July 18, 2000)
Redirects -
A recent email sent to someone whose site was banned by
AV:
"Thank you for taking the time to write to us about your site and
the error message you received while trying to submit it. You
have been blocked from submitting because you have pages which
"redirect", the URL changes on its own and sends users
elsewhere. For more information on how to create a page that
will not not only rank well, but not get you blocked from
submitting, please see
http://doc.altavista.com/adv_search/ast_i_index.shtml . Further
details on why you are being blocked CANNOT be gotten by writing
back to this address, it is up to you to read through the
information posted on the above URL and to change your site on your
own."
This is the javascript redirect I'm using:
SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> bName = navigator.appName; if
(bName == "Netscape" ) window.location="http://www.DOMAIN.com"; else
window.location="http://www.DOMAIN.com"
Manipulation
of Search Results - For Alta Vista
"We are committed
to provide our users the most relevant search results presented in
the order of greatest relevance. We rank search results
automatically according to established ranking criteria (which may
change from time to time). We do not guarantee any ranking results
for any Web page. We also reserve the right in our sole discretion
to adjust the ranking of search results for any Web page and to
remove listings of Web pages if we believe people are abusing our
Site. If you believe that our search results have been manipulated,
please contact:
Search Support
AltaVista Company
1825 Grant Street, Suite
200
San Mateo, CA 94402
Email: [email protected]
Please include "Search Results Manipulation" in the subject line
if sending an e-mail. Please give us enough details to understand
your claim. We will evaluate your claims but we reserve the right to
take action or not."
Direct Hit (FAQ)
Spam: Any site that spams the Direct Hit URL submission service
will be immediately removed from the Direct Hit search engine.
Open Directory (DMOZ) (FAQ)
"We care a great deal about the quality of the directory. To keep
the ODP running smoothly, we may have to delete submissions that
violate these policies or that we believe otherwise disrupt the
operation of the ODP. In some cases, we may also delete other
submissions by users violating these policies.
- Please only submit an URL to the Open Directory once. If a
site has not been listed within three weeks, you may submit it
again.
- Disguising your submission and submitting the same URL more
than once is not permitted. Example: http://www.dmoz.org and
http://www.dmoz.org/index.html.
- Please do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that
contain identical content, but have different URLs altogether.
- Sites with illegal content are forbidden in the Open
Directory. Examples of illegal material include, but are not
limited to, child pornography and sites infringing on copyright.
- Please avoid submitting sites with addresses that redirect to
another address.
- Submit sites to the most relevant category. Sites
intentionally submitted to inappropriate or unrelated categories
will be removed.
- Sites consisting largely of affiliate links should not be
submitted. "
