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Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Go Gains Paid Inclusion System Go.com has become the second major crawler-based search engine to roll out a paid inclusion program. Its new US $199 "Premium Service" will add any URL submitted to its crawler-based results within 48 hours and revisit that URL on a weekly basis, for one year.   |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Network Solutions Launches Inktomi Paid Inclusion Network Solutions was Inktomi's first paid inclusion partner, announced way back in the middle of last year. Finally, that partnership has gone live, with Network Solutions now offering guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi web index through its web site... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Opens Paid Inclusion After months of talking about it, AltaVista finally unveiled a paid inclusion program last week... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Spam Database Left Open To Public Inktomi suffered an embarrassing lack of security last week, when it was discovered that a copy of its database of spam and porn sites was left open to the public... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Expands Inclusion Partners In conjunction with last month's Search Engine Strategies conference, Inktomi announced a number of new partners who are reselling its paid inclusion programs... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves Launches Paid Inclusion For Teoma Ask Jeeves went live last month with a beta program that allows paid inclusion into the Teoma index... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Launches New Paid Inclusion Program, Search Improvements Inktomi has rolled out a new paid inclusion program aimed at large content providers. In addition, the company has also unveiled new changes to how the service indexes and ranks web pages... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
June 17, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Going Beyond FTC Paid Inclusion Disclosure Guidelines A look at how Yahoo might go beyond FTC guidelines about paid inclusion as a means of rebuilding faith in the impact of paid inclusion on relevancy and its listings in general. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says it's back. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
FAST Announces Largest Search Engine FAST Search is now claiming an index of 200 million web pages, which would make it the largest search engine on the web. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion Listings May Get Boosted At AltaVista It turns out that Trusted Feed content at AltaVista may indeed get a bump into the top results, in the right circumstances. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
McCown et al. |
Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web Many websites are adapting their content for users who are accessing the Web using smartphones and tablets. The growth of this Mobile Web has required web archivists to change their practices in order to collect this ephemeral web content. |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Drop LookSmart LookSmart has announced that its deal to provide Microsoft with listings for its MSN Search service is not being renewed, leaving the company without its most important partner. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Increases Size, Introduces Anti-Proximity Last month Inktomi rolled out a larger, 2 billion web page index, as well as making some internal changes designed to improve the relevancy of its listings. |
Search Engine Watch
August 12, 2010
Peter van der Graaf |
Optimizing Your Existing Links Contacting your link partners can improve your link profile and rankings. Here are some helpful link building strategies, plus some pitfalls you'll want avoid. |
InternetNews
December 26, 2003
Sean Michael Kerner |
Outlook: Paid Inclusion Needs to Change its Ways Jupiter Research looks at the market outlook for the paid inclusion search model, and finds plenty that needs fixing before growth returns to the sector. |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
February 28, 2011
Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
The Canonical Tag Can Save You from the Duplicate Content Monster How the very useful rel="canonical" tag solves many common SEO problems that exist around duplicate content issues. |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Good For Google Does Not Equal Bad For Inktomi The loss of big portal Yahoo to Google's search service doesn't necessarily mean Inktomi is a big loser, just because Google is a big winner. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
Search Engine Watch
September 30, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On When Google advises against URL rewriting in their Webmaster Central blog, is there an ulterior motive? |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play. |
Search Engine Watch
December 24, 2003
Craig Fifield |
Bungled Search Engine Optimization: Cleaning Up the Mess Many advertising agencies, design firms, and even web hosting companies offer search engine marketing services for their customers. However, some of the methods they use to obtain top positions are considered to be spam by the major search engines. How do you tell the difference? |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Subtle But Helpful Changes At HotBot Unlike at Lycos.com, Lycos-owned HotBot has no dramatic search provider announcements. HotBot says that it is pleased with its current major providers, Direct Hit and Inktomi, plus says that having a different mix helps the site appeal to a different audience than those using Lycos.com. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
iWon Expands Search Offerings Over the past three months, iWon has been adding new search resources to its site. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Hosting Issues and SEO When it comes to server issues, many of us would rather not get into the down-and-dirty details. But knowing the basics of server response codes - and when to use them correctly - is critical for any competitive Webmaster or search marketer. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2000 |
MSN Search Changes To Inktomi MSN Search has returned to using Inktomi to power the "Web Pages" section of its results. Inktomi was dumped in favor of AltaVista earlier this year |
Search Engine Watch
February 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight What's The Next Step With Search Engines? Google and Semantic Web Search. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Google & FAST Move Up In Size Google announced last week that its size has increased to 602 million pages that have been fully-indexed and to 1.25 million pages when partially indexed material is included. The announcement came just about week after FAST Search had gained the title of biggest search engine... |
