Cool tips and tricks for submitting, listing and ranking your website in Altavista
Altavista is one of the popular search engines that uses a combination of meta tags, title, link popularity and content to generate its search results. Though it doesn't take very long to get indexed and listed in the Altavista search engine, you need to continuously work on your content, link popularity and meta tags to get a good ranking all the same.
How to submit your website to Altavista?
- Submit each of your pages separately to the Altavista search engine.
- Unlike Google, Altavista does not automatically follow links and index the entire website.
- Altavista’s latest for submitting a website to it, is the fun game it has added, which you need to pass in order to submit your URL's to their database!
Click here to read more about it
Click here to directly submit to Altavista
How to Get your website Listed in Altavista?
Getting listed in Altavista is usually a very quick process.
- Once you have submitted your website to altavista, your site would be indexed and listed within a week or two.
- Find out if you are listed in Altavista - Go to the search box in the Altavista site and type in host:www.YOUR DOMAIN.com. The results of this search will give you all the pages listed in Altavista under your domain, in this case www.maa-web.com.
- Find a particular page listed in Altavista - Go to the search box in the Altavista site and type in url:www.YOUR DOMAIN .com/PAGE.asp, in this case url:www.maa-web.com/website_promotion/default.asp.
- If you do not find your website or a webpage listed, don't worry, it's only a matter of time.
How to get a good ranking in Altavista?
Altavista gives importance to content, links, title and meta tags while ranking pages. Click here to read more about Altavista's ranking factors.
Assess your link popularity
- Find sites that are linking by going to the search box in the Altavista site and type in +link:www.YOUR DOMAIN.com.
- The results of this search will give you the names of all the sites listed in Altavista that link to your site. This will allow you to assess your link popularity
- Increase your link popularity
Take a look at our article on link popularity to get some ideas on how to get other sites to link to you. Here are a few tips
- Submit to Altavista and other popular search engines- Get quality links and increased visitor traffic with only minutes of submission effort! Submitting to these sites is a great way of increasing your link popularity and getting a high ranking with the popular search engines.
- Write articles, give away freebies and make your site a quality site with fresh content. This will make other sites to automatically link to you thus increasing your link popularity.
- Keep checking your listing and link popularity by using the tips discussed in point 1
(LISTING: host: www.YOUR DOMAIN.com
LINK POPULARITY: +link:www.YOUR DOMAIN.com)
- Make sure all the important keywords appear in your title, description, content and alt tags of your web page. This increases your keyword density and helps in boosting your ranking.
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