Mel
13-08-2001, 02:04/02:04AM
Hi All:
for those of you still interested in ranking well at AV, Market Postion newsletter has just published an interview with "senior managers and engineers" at AV. you may read the entire article HERE (http://www.webposition.com/mp-current.htm#ONE) but here are some brief excerpts:
"Are you not finding your Web page currently for a particular search query? Yet, it came up in the search results for the exact same query just three hours ago? Don't worry. My interview disclosed that queries made during different times of the day might yield different results. Consequently, if you conduct a search during a peak traffic time, it is possible that you may receive different search results. Using load balancing, AltaVista distributes the site activity evenly across multiple servers in order to prevent a single server from being overwhelmed. While your ranking may exist on one particular server, there is a chance it may not be present on another"
"Erika also commented that the AV indexing policy adjusts sporadically. The level and depth of how far the spider will crawl a particular Web site varies from time to time. Consequently, if you have pages that you genuinely want indexed, submit them, since the spider may or may not find them otherwise! "
Lots more to read about here if AV is your thing.
for those of you still interested in ranking well at AV, Market Postion newsletter has just published an interview with "senior managers and engineers" at AV. you may read the entire article HERE (http://www.webposition.com/mp-current.htm#ONE) but here are some brief excerpts:
"Are you not finding your Web page currently for a particular search query? Yet, it came up in the search results for the exact same query just three hours ago? Don't worry. My interview disclosed that queries made during different times of the day might yield different results. Consequently, if you conduct a search during a peak traffic time, it is possible that you may receive different search results. Using load balancing, AltaVista distributes the site activity evenly across multiple servers in order to prevent a single server from being overwhelmed. While your ranking may exist on one particular server, there is a chance it may not be present on another"
"Erika also commented that the AV indexing policy adjusts sporadically. The level and depth of how far the spider will crawl a particular Web site varies from time to time. Consequently, if you have pages that you genuinely want indexed, submit them, since the spider may or may not find them otherwise! "
Lots more to read about here if AV is your thing.