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[2001-10-31] indexing IP neighborhoods
Know Your Neighbors!
The concept of virtual hosting, where a Web hosting company may host 10 or 12 Web sites on the same IP address, was a revealing topic of discussion during our interview. Erika acknowledged, "What we see on the Internet is that there are the IP equivalents of good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods. So we see it fairly frequently where people on a certain IP exhibit a certain kind of behavior..."
[2001-10-24] Gaining Rankings within AltaVista
Frames
If you have information inside frames, you probably face a challenge gaining rankings in AltaVista, but it is not an absolute barrier. AltaVista indexes the outside of the frame as a distinct page. It will also index each pane of the frame window as a separate page. That means that if the content matching a query is in a pane, then visitors clicking on those links will see only the pane, not the full page as it was originally designed. So if you want visitors from AltaVista to experience your pages in a certain way, you should have non-frames as well as frames versions of those pages, and submit the non-frames versions.
[2001-10-20] What's in a Listing? Do a Search of your Site or Ezine.
Recently while doing a search for content to put in my ezine, I thought I might see just how many listings I had for my ezine,"Dee's Helpful Info." I typed my ezine name into the search bar and hit enter. I was amazed with the results. There were several hundred listings, many of which I had forgotten about. I began with the top listing,working my way though the huge list. Right away,I ran into problems.
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