Thursday, September 18, 2008

Submitting to AltaVista

Submitting to AltaVista


This is another very popular search engine. AltaVista does have submission via the Add

URL feature at http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl. As discussed with other

search engines, free submission might take more than a month until your web pages show

up. An automatic submission through submission software may not work with this URL,



as it requires insertion of a specific code that is displayed on entering the submission

page.



Following services are offered by Alta Vista.


Express Inclusion


According to Alta Vista, this is the fastest method of including your URLs as Express

Inclusion lets you add up to 500 URLs to AltaVista's search results within 2 business

days. It does Daily refreshes (weekday only)and keeps your listings fresh.


Trusted Feed



This service is reserved for partners who submit more than 500 pages to the AltaVista

database. Trusted Feed enables submission of custom titles, keywords and abstracts and

provides the clients with highly qualified traffic through weekly updates.



Listing Enhancements



This service visually distinguish your pages in the AltaVista search results with Listing

Enhancements. It also controls the look and feel of your results by adding logos, icons,

custom taglines, and text links to your URLs.



Reseller Program






AltaVista's Reseller Program provides you with the opportunity to deliver highly

qualified traffic to your clients' sites by using any of the following programs: Trusted

Feed, Express Inclusion, and Listing Enhancements.



Basic Submit



This is the basic submit service which enables the clients to add or remove up to 5 URLs

at a time from the AltaVista global database. URLs will generally be evaluated within

four to six weeks of submission. Basic Submit is a free service. As discussed with other

search engines, free submission might take more than a month until your web pages show

up. An automatic submission through submission software may not work with this URL,

as it requires insertion of a specific code that is displayed on entering the submission

page.



AltaVista’s paid submission program has a fee of $39 per page for six months ($78 for a

year).



For additional 2 to 10 web pages the fee is $58 per page per year, whereas for an

additional 11 to 500 web pages the fee is $38. AltaVista also provides Bulk Program

wherein you can add thousands of web pages at a time. A small fee is charged each time

someone clicks on your web page.



Fortunately, there are ways to verify and whether your site has been listed or not. This is

described in the section on “verify and monitor listing”.

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