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Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Free Listings Gone At LookSmart In mid-May, LookSmart ceased accepting free submissions to the US-edition of its directory. The company says that this is not yet a permanent move.   |
Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Drops Free Submit For Commercial Categories Yahoo is now charging for all sites that wish to submit to certain commercial categories of its directory... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Overhauls Submission Process, Increases Prices The good news is that over the past month, LookSmart has given site owners greater flexibility than ever before to get listed with the service. The changes make getting listed more complicated, but are especially beneficial for those with non-commercial content... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Go Beta Tests User-Assisted Directory Taking a page from the Open Directory, Go is inviting the masses of the web to help manage its directory of web sites. Currently in beta testing, the "Go Guides" program lets anyone participate in the process of categorizing the web. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Go Guides Goes Live Go's new Go Guides directory went live in September. Similar to the Open Directory, Go Guides makes use of volunteers to catalog the web. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
LookSmart Launches Express Submission Service LookSmart is currently testing a new submission service where by paying a fee, you can get a fast answer as to whether your site will be listed. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Submission & Other Changes At NBCi NBCi has rolled out a paid submission service that allows faster review of sites for inclusion into its main directory. In addition, the service, formerly known as Snap, has also made some changes to how sites are listed in its results... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Submission Data Was Left Vulnerable Information in LookSmart's submission queue has been left open to the public, giving access to the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who have submitted sites to the service. Credit card data, however, was not exposed... |
ONLINE
July 2000
Chris Sherman |
Humans Do It Better: Inside the Open Directory Project many who take on the daunting task of cataloging the Web find themselves hopelessly ensnared. The crew of the Open Directory Project (ODP) has avoided this unfortunate fate, and in the process have seen their efforts gain an unprecedented acceptance. |
Search Engine Watch
December 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
I-Search Search Satisfaction Survey This survey of I-Search readers reveals problems both web marketers and searchers encounter with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Acquires Zeal Community Directory LookSmart has purchased the Zeal.com community search site. Similar to the Open Directory, Zeal.com uses volunteer editors to organize web sites into categories. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changing To Cost-Per-Click Basis Next week, LookSmart plans a shift to a model where most new listings in the commercial portions of its directory will be sold a cost-per-click basis... |
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
May 12, 2009
Carrie Hill |
My "Must Have" List of Directories Submitting yourself to directories that are directly related to your business is an important part of directory and linkbuilding research. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changes To Cost-Per-Click Listings Pay -- and keep paying -- or don't appear, LookSmart told existing and new listing customers last month, in a significant change to how the human-powered search engine lists web pages from commercial web sites... |
Search Engine Watch
November 24, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Natural Link Building Practices Don't take chances buying links. Make these safe, proven link building tactics part of your search engine optimization strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
Google Adds Directory Users continue to rave about the quality of Google's search results, and that's testimony that its link analysis system works well at delivering relevant information. Now Google is applying link analysis in a new way, to the human powered information of the Open Directory. |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Snap Unveils LiveDirectory In the wake of moves by the Open Directory and Go to allow more user participation in constructing their directories, Snap has unveiled a new LiveDirectory system that allows sites to be added within minutes to its guide. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2000 |
About.com No Longer Poster Child For Yahoo Abuse Examines comments in March 2000 that Yahoo was actively keeping About.com sites out of its listings. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Community Search Blossoms - Part 1 The popularity of the Open Directory has not been lost on new search companies. Several are trying to tap into human power both as a means to locate, reorganize and rate information. Here's a summary of new players looking to leverage communities into better search. |
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
July 17, 2009
Chris Boggs |
Building Directory Links: A Valuable SEO Tactic? One of the longest-tenured tactics in link building is to build links within topical free and paid directories. Is that still a valuable SEO tactic? |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
Yahoo Changes Listings Significant changes to the look and functionality of Yahoo are few and far between, which can be a relief given how some other search engines can seem to be constantly altering themselves.... |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Iconocast Poll Sheds Light On Search Engine Optimization Issues In November, the respected Iconocast newsletter surveyed its readers on search engine optimization issues. Here's a summary of key findings, based on 404 responses... |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Netscape Search Gets Rebuilt Netscape released a new version of its Netscape Search service in June. Previously powered by Excite, the new service now draws on the Open Directory and Google for its listings. It's a powerful combination that makes Netscape Search worth considering among your top search choices. |
Search Engine Watch
December 20, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
A Pair of Web Pathfinding Gems Though we rely heavily on search engines these days, sometimes a good 'old fashioned' human edited directory is a better choice for helping us locate high quality information on the web. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Letters About LookSmart's Cost-Per-Click Change A sampling of letters received by Search Engine Watch relating to the change by LookSmart to cost-per-click pricing... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Monetizing The Search Monetizing the search means making money in some way off the search results you present. More than ever, monetizing the search is a concern for the search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Hit With Potential Class Action Lawsuit Over Submission Program A proposed class action lawsuit claiming breach of contract, fraudulent business practices and misleading advertising has been filed against LookSmart over a recent change in how the company sells some of its commercial web site listings |
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
August 2, 1999 |
LookSmart Live Looks-Up Answers Looking for an answer? Look no further than LookSmart, which is providing custom research to frustrated searchers through its new LookSmart Live program. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Ups Basic Submit Price The price of LookSmart's "Basic Submit" service has been increased from $79 to $99. Basic Submit guarantees that a site will be reviewed within eight weeks for possible inclusion into the directory... |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Improved MSN Search Launches Microsoft officially launched its new version of MSN Search in late September, and the improvements leapfrog the service forward into being a compelling choice for those searching the web. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
New Go Site Goes Up Having given up its goal of being a portal to please all people, the new Go site was formally unveiled last month. So far it retains features that may appeal to general searchers... |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo Local listings. |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Lycos Changes Listings Format Lycos has altered the format of its search results page, in order to consistently present more information from different sources within the same space. |
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
March 2, 2009
Ron Jones |
Local Search 101, Part 1 Are you looking to venture beyond the printed yellow pages? You should be. As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are turning to local 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.... |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Engine Submission 101, Part 2 Search engine submission is not a silver bullet that will instantly launch you into higher rankings. Today, submitting XML Sitemaps is not necessary, but could potentially offer better response time. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Searching The AOL Time Warner Way Netscape Search used to be a powerhouse in the search world. Those heady days have declined, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser now commands the lion share of web users. However, Netscape Search has a new lease on life, via the AOL Time Warner network... |
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
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
September 3, 1999 |
Excite Enlarging Index, Partnered With LookSmart In August, Excite began the first phase of an ambitious plan to enlarge its search index to 250 million web pages and improve the relevancy of its search results. The search engine also debuted new LookSmart-powered directory listings. |
