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Tips For Alta Vista:
Alta Vistais a tough search engine to get listed towards the top. Alta Vista does take advantage of META Tags when indexing a Web site.
One thing to consider when choosing your keywords for Alta Vista is that Alta Vista uses stop words. Stop words are words that Alta Vista feels are too common. These stop words are always changing, but to give you an example simply search Alta Vista on the keyword "the". You will notice NO results will be displayed because this is obviously a common word. You will then see at the bottom of the results page that Alta Vista has "ignored" the keyword "the".
Our biggest tip for Alta Vista is to check your keywords before using them in your META Tags. Check your spelling and try to use the words or phrases you think someone would type in to get to your Web site.
General Information:
The Alta Vista search engine starts by spidering the Web page you submitted with its spider Scooter. Scooter may take up to three months to spider and index your entire site, but will usually index your submitted Web page within a day or two. Your best bet is to submit your pages manually at the rate of no more than 30 per week. However, when you submit your 50th page under one subdirectory you will trigger a "spam alert" and you will be visited by human eyes at Alta Vista - be very careful to avoid the appearance of spam. We also suggest you do not resubmit the same page twice in one day.
The Alta Vista indexer gives higher priority for keywords located in submit Tags (TITLE Tags and META Tags). A higher priority is given for keywords that are located near the top of the page. Alta Vista also gives a tad higher ranking for keywords appearing closer to each other on the page text. It adds up the occurrences of the keywords in the page for higher scoring. If the META Description Tag is not present, it indexes the first 150 characters or so of the Web page as the page description.
Alta Vista will index both the Keywords and Description META Tag fields as words! So it is up to you how your page is indexed. These words are case sensitive, so build your page accordingly.
Alta Vista and Inktomi have been swapping "we are the biggest" boasts over the last year. Alta Vista has been the sentimental favorite of the pocket protector crowd for quite awhile because Alta Vista allows the searcher much more advanced query building than that of HotBot (Inktomi). Alta Vista was created out of a research project at Digital Equipment Corporations Research Laboratories in Palo Alto California USA.
Alta Vista also supplies a link to the Looksmart directory service and gets a major link on "no results found" from Looksmart. It is the only search engine to index in multiple languages and multiple character sets with on-the-fly translation. It can determine the character set of a page even if a Web author has failed to indicated it, which commonly happens.
Rankings Priority Rundown:
1. Keyword or phrase appearing in TITLE
2. Keyword or phrase appearing in META Tags
3. Keyword or phrase appearing near the top of page
4. Individual keywords appear close together
- Document date of origin: Touch higher for the oldest pages.
- Document length. Longer documents tend to do better.
- site linkage bonus: NONE.
Special Tips:
There are also a couple of "human" eyes from Alta Vista that will visit your site once you reach 100 urls submitted or 50 urls under any one subdirectory of a domain. These will read from the Alta Vista digital domain but will be Mozilla browsers of unknown configuration. If you get visited by these browsers - you are being checked out by a human to make sure you are not spamming the Alta Vista index and to compare the Scooter retrieved page with Mozilla retrieved page (not a concern with our Robot Tools program).
* WARNING *: If the robot retrieved Web page does not match the Mozilla retrieved page, your entire site can be black listed by Alta Vista. (many search engines are starting to use this technique).
We have found that submissions are limited to 5 pages per day, and after that, they may be ignored.
Our Evaluation:
(Summary. strong points, weaknesses, criticism, recommendations to users etc.)
Alta Vista seems to be a powerful search engine. Possibility to limit searches to certain fields is an advance same as boolean and proximity operators. Online manual is extensive. Query structures are not limited, but in certain situations we have doubted performance in complex search statements. Harvesting program Scooter doesn't seem to index sites very deeply. Sometimes Alta Vista drops pages from it's index and after a while they reappear. You can get different results from simultaneous, exactly same searches. Mirror sites databases are different from the main site. We feel this search is best used for finding abstract out of the way information. Alta Vista usually indexes too much and therefore the results are somewhat cluttered with non relevant results.

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