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General Information
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Ask/Teoma |
Google |
Yahoo |
MSN Search |
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<title> character
length used for listing |
65 |
70 |
115 |
70 |
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Keyword in title is important
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Character length used for description in
listing |
147 |
155 |
varies, up to 400 |
207 |
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<meta> description supported
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Yes |
No - Variations on indexing
(see
note 1) |
No -
(yes on paid inclusion) |
No |
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<meta> keyword supported
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Yes |
Not Indexed
Might be used for Ranking |
Yes
Use commas between phrases |
No |
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<meta>keyword important
|
- |
Small |
Small |
No |
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<meta> redirect problems?
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- |
Likely |
Likely |
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<meta> robot tags support
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- |
NOINDEX
NOFOLLOW |
NOINDEX
NOFOLLOW |
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Indexes all visible text on page
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- |
Up To ~102k |
Up To ~500k |
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Searches are Case Sensitive
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No |
No |
No |
No |
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Word Stemming (hawaii=hawaiian)
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No (Teoma) |
Partial |
No |
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Word Capitalization (Is toy=Toy?)
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Keyword Order
(Is "paris hotels"="hotels paris" |
No |
Reduced emphasis on keyword order |
No |
No |
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Plurals
(Is toy=toys?) |
Yes |
Partial |
No |
No |
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Pages score higher based on alphabetical
order of domain name? |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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Do newly submitted
pages score better? |
- |
No |
No |
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Link Popularity |
Yes |
Yes
(major influence) |
Yes
(major influence) |
Yes |
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Reviewed sites
score higher? |
- |
Yahoo / ODP Preference
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- |
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Preference for big sites? (lots of pages)
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Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Will the spider accept a cookie and use
it while indexing your site? |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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"Click" popularity influences page score?
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No |
No |
Future? |
Tracking in Place |
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What text
is indexed? (and can be found during a search)
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Ask/Teoma |
Google |
Yahoo |
MSN Search |
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Words in <title> |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Words in <style> |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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Meta Keywords
<meta name=
keywords... |
1129
characters |
No |
1129 characters |
No |
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Meta Description
<meta name=
description... |
1129
characters |
Varies
(see
note 1) |
1129 characters |
No |
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<no frames> Content |
|
Yes |
Yes |
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Dublin Core
Meta Data |
|
No |
No |
No |
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<!-- comment -->
tag text |
|
No |
No |
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Hidden Input
form text
(Trick #14) |
|
- |
No |
|
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Form <option> text |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Link Descriptions
<a href="www.your
server.com">
keyword</a> |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Text within url link
<a href="http://www
.yourserver.com/
keyword.html> |
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Yes |
No |
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Indexes .asp files |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Indexes pages with "?","=","&" in the
URL? |
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Spidering
(how deep will they go and how long does it take?)
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Ask/Teoma |
Google |
Yahoo |
MSN Search |
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How many different pages can you get
indexed? |
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No Limit? |
Limited |
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Submitted Pages |
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1-2 months |
48 hours
to three weeks |
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1 level deep |
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Monthly-Excellent |
2-4 weeks |
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Multiple levels deep |
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Yes! - Excellent |
Poor |
Yes |
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Supports Robots.txt |
|
Partial |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports <meta> robot tag
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|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Frames Support (noframes tag)
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|
Yes |
Yes |
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Follows Frameset links
|
|
Yes |
Yes - Will index content of framed page
and list URL of frameset |
|
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Follows Image Map Links
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Yes |
- |
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Penalties
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|
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Ask/Teoma |
Google |
Yahoo |
MSN Search |
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# of pages you can submit per day without
a penalty |
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10?
Submit home page and let spider find other pages on it's
own |
Careful, Free Submit Might Have Penalty
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Submitting too fast |
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No |
No |
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Hidden Text |
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Yes |
None |
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Repetition of words in title
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We advise 3 or less |
Maybe |
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Repetition of words in <meta>description
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No |
No |
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Repetition of words in body text
|
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Yes |
Maybe |
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Small Sites (less than 5 pages)
|
|
No |
No |
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Links on home page to offsite urls
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No |
- |
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No Links to your page from other sites
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Yes |
Yes |
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