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The Relationship Between the Search
Engines, and Ways to Get Listed When all Your Past Attempts
Have Failed.
Some Important Notes on the Relationships - Cliques
that seem to have formed
Yes, I did say cliques. I seen them in high school. I see
them in present day. They are always there in human relationships,
and humans run these businesses. When looking at the search
engine playground, some groups have banded together. There
seems to be two distinct groups, and they don't seem to play
together. Lycos, Inktomi, DMOZ, and Google seem to be where
the boundaries lay. They seem to be the fence sitters that
hold the playground together. In the top of the playing field
are Lycos, DMOZ, iwon-Search, Netscape, Google, HotBot, Teoma,
Ask Jeeves, and AOL Search. In the bottom of the playing field
are Inktomi, Yahoo, fast, Overture , looksmart, alltheweb,
MSN, and Alta Vista. These two groups do not play together,
and no information passes between the two sides except where
the fence sitters have forged alliances.
In the top of the playground, Google sends results to Yahoo,
and DMOZ sends results to Alta Vista. In the bottom of the
playground, Inktomi sends results to HotBot, and fast sends
results to Lycos. That is where the playing stops. While the
top of the playground plays together, the bottom of the playground
is even further subdivided. Fast and alltheweb play together
in their own little group with results from Overture, but
do not interact with the others. Overture is the glue that
holds them all together.
DMOZ is able to offer their listings to the number of engines
they do because of quality. It is a well-known fact that DMOZ
results are usually relevant to keywords searched for. It
is because of their editor's quality and performance in page
reviewing. If it wouldn't be for the editors and their high
morale values then DMOZ results would be just as worthless
as some of the other search engines listings are. The search
engines know this fact, and that is why so many other search
engines accept listings from DMOZ. DMOZ is not tainted by
the lure of money, and neither are their results. Their results
offer a quality that no other search engine can match. All
these things are what add up to make a listing with DMOZ like
platinum.
Breaking it all down Engine by Engine
- Where to get Indexed to get Possible Indexing where you
want it
Here I will break it down to the bottom line answers. You
will first need to establish where it is you want to get indexed.
Then you will need to attempt the indexing yourself. Go and
submit your page and see what happens. If you get listed,
then all you need to work on is your ranking, and need to
further educate yourself on how to accomplish that. If you
still haven't achieved the indexing you are looking for, then
you can skip to the next areas of this article. You also need
to remember that high placement in your targeted results listings
are required here. Without them, your chances of attaining
the domino affect you are looking for are worthless. With
all the listing places, the first step should be an attempt
to get indexed by them first. Choose the most prominent one,
the one that's most popular to internet surfers, and start
there.
AOL Search - So you want a Listing in AOL Search
Get indexed in Google and potentially be indexed in AOL Search
from both paid inclusions at Google and primary Google search
results. You can also get listed in DMOZ and get indexed through
DMOZ's directory results. Or you can backend through DMOZ
to Google and then potentially be indexed by AOL Search.
Ask Jeeves - So you want a Listing in Ask Jeeves
Pay for inclusion in Google, or be on Teoma's secondary results
list, and potentially be indexed by Ask Jeeves. Backdoor listing
through DMOZ will not help you here. Google only sends Ask
Jeeves their paid inclusions, not their primary results.
Teoma - So you want a Listing in Teoma
Pay for inclusion in Google, or rank highly in DMOZ to be
a part of their primary directory results to be potentially
indexed in Teoma. Backdoor listing through DMOZ will not help
you here. Google only sends Teoma their paid inclusions, not
their primary results.
HotBot - So you want a Listing in HotBot
Pay for inclusion in Google, rank highly in DMOZ to be a
part of their primary directory results, or rank highly in
Inktomi to be a part of their primary results to be potentially
indexed by HotBot. Or you can backend through DMOZ to Google
and then potentially be indexed by HotBot
Google - So you want a Listing in Google
Rank highly in DMOZ to be a part of their directory results
to be potentially indexed by Google.
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About the Author
James R. Sanders is the owner of Sanders
Consultation Group Plus. He has been a webmaster and website
designer since 1997. He has also been involved in self employment
ventures since 1992. He is presently a contributing author
of NewbieHangout. His writing is targeted to webmasters, would
be webmasters, website designers, would be website designers,
self employed, or those researching information looking for
solutions to questions associated with design, business operations,
and promotion today. His goal is to provide practical information
based upon his years of experience to help webmasters, website
designers, and self employed people achieve their goals in
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