Website Marketing and Promotions

Links for Marketing your Website	Google Info	Hotbot Info	AltaVista Info	Lycos Info	Excite Info	WebCrawler Info
To add your URL	Add URL	Add URL	Add URL	Add URL	Add URL	Add URL
To check on your submissions (see Note 1 below)	Info for Webmasters	*.com	*.com	Check or *.com	URL:yours	URL:yours
How to submit or submitting suggestions	HowTo		HowTo	HowTo	HowTo	HowTo
Search for keyword	Search	Search	Search	Search	Search	Search
General Questions about search engines	Google Info	Hotbot Info	AltaVista Info	Lycos Info	Excite Info	WebCrawler Info
How long to get listed after submitting?	1-4 wks	48 hrs	48 hrs	2-3 wks	2-4 wks	2 wks
Entire site Indexed by robot after I submit?	Yes	yes	yes	Only 1 level from page submitted	yes	no
How often does the robot re-index my site?	robot does index	every 2 wks	Very often depending on how often your pages change.	every 4 wks	every 2-4 wks	every 2-4 wks
Should I submit all my main pages?	only the top-level domain	Submit new important pages. No more than 50 in one day.	Submit new important pages	Submit important pages	not needed	Submit new important pages
How many pages can I submit?	only the top-level domain	all main pages	all main pages		Home page only	25
If I make changes should I resubmit my Pages if I want the engine to update them?	yes	no	no more than 5 pages a day	yes	no	no
What each search engine looks at	Google Info	Hotbot Info	AltaVista Info	Lycos Info	Excite Info	WebCrawler Info
Uses Meta Keyword Tags?	Uses Meta Tags	Uses Meta Tags	Uses Meta Tags Only uses the first 255 characters including ',' or ' '	Uses Meta Tags	no	no
Uses Meta Description Tags	yes		yes	yes	no	no
Summary or Description			Extracted from first 255 characters if you do not have a meta description.	uses meta description as summary	Summary extracted from text.
Title Importance? Used for Titles, saved in favorites, etc.	Very High		Very High			Yes
<H1>Heading</H1>			very important
Uses Text Content on page?	Checks the keywords for relevancy to actual text on page.		First 200 character is used dfor summary		More emphasis than Title or Summary. Stores FULL text of page.	particular about contents of pages. Important
Uses date as a guide for re-indexing page.			Yes
Miscellaneous	Google Info	Hotbot Info	AltaVista Info	Lycos Info	Excite Info	WebCrawler Info
Frames ?		no	no		no	no
Misc.					basically the same search engine
Robot Names	googlebot		Scooter		Architext
Comment Tags
ALT Tags	l	looks at ALT tags

*The truth* about search engines and web site marketing.**
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Why am I doing this?	Reciprocal Links	Visibility Rating programs	Building a better web page
The Myths	Site design	Awards	Giving the robots what they want
The truth about search engines	Navigation within your site	Marketing on the Web	Keywords
Tricks	Robot travel	Best way to get started	200 charactor description
Two simple concepts for success	The macrocosm & microcosm	Self serving ad for Zeus	Page structure
Four steps to get visitors	Automatic submit programs
Real world analogies	Re-submitting monthly
	Submitting by hand