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Capsule Comments
AltaVista actually returns results from
5 different
sources. The first is from their index, which is what most users would consider the main
results. Additionally, AltaVista can also return results from Ask
Jeeves, Goto displayed as
"Products and Services", RealNames and
the LookSmart Directory (see other search engines
for more information on these).
"Ask AltaVista" responds to queries in Natural
Language, using the Ask Jeeves results.
Submission Notes
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Search
results on AltaVista are powered
by Yahoo! Search Technology. To be
listed you can submit to your
website to
Submit Your Site for Free:
and
Overture SiteMatch.
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The
AltaVista Express Inclusion
program has been discontinued.
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AltaVista has several International versions. These are
mirror sites, so submitting to the main site includes you in all. Be aware, however, that
the Canadian site is actually maintained by a different spider which is supposed to
automatically detect if the site is Canadian. You can't submit a site exclusively to this
engine, but it it doesn't appear, you can e-mail AltaVista Canada to notify them.
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Keyword stuffing, submitting too many pages from the same
URL, submitting identical pages, meta refresh tags, irrelevant keywords and hidden text
are all considered spamming and will be penalized
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Keywords in titles, metatags and body text all add to a
sites relevancy. AltaVista generally likes longer pages and gives preference to root level
pages.
Recent Developments
Several
new Submission strategies: Express
Inclusion for up-t0 500 pages
with weekly refreshes, Trusted
Feed accepts dynamic pages and
provides reports on your submissions,
they have an Express
Submission option with
guaranteed re-spidering for $39 (6
months) for
the first URL.
AltaVista's
Raging
Search offers "the best pure search experience on
the Internet. That means the most relevant results, the fastest
search, and the easiest site to use."
Link Popularity is playing more
of a role in Alta Vista's ranking scheme. Click
here for an article about Link Popularity and the
Bow-Tie Theory.
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