MarketPosition.com Archives for Apr, 2000
April 15, 2000
Which is Better: Manual Submission or Automated?
Besides illustrating WebPosition Gold's market leadership, the I-Search survey presented some opinions that, at first glance, might be surprising. Most notably, 84% of those surveyed submit their sites manually. Many claimed that it's more effective than automated submissions.
April 15, 2000
What does AltaVista consider spam?
So what is spam? That's the $64,000 question. The definition varies for each search engine (and even by who you talk to at the search engine), and it can change from week to week. In the case of AltaVista, I've read postings by several AltaVista representatives. I even had a member of our staff, Chad Stearns, call a contact at AltaVista that we ran across: Ty Tresseter. Here's Chad's recap of the conversation he had with Mr. Tresseter:
April 15, 2000
Our AltaVista Recommendations
Here is a summary of our recommendations for optimizing webpages for the AltaVista search engine.
