Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Excite Drop Out-Page Limitations?

Chip Canty (ccanty_at_shell1.shore.net)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:26:39 -0500 (CDT)

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> I was getting a great deal of traffic from Excite from about 25
> submitted pages. After submitting three new pages, I had a lot
> of pages drop out all together....

All of the search engines seem to be struggling with the problem
of scaling up to keep pace with the growth of the Internet.
Excite's approach has been to refuse to accept submission of more
than 25 pages per site; if you exceed the limit, as you
apparently have, you run the risk of having all your pages
dropped by Excite (and AOL NetFind, which uses the same index).

You're probably better advised to submit only a few top-level
pages and let Excite's spider find and index your other pages on
its own. Be warned, however, that Excite is routinely removing
pages indexed on its own initiative after only 9 weeks!

Also, some folks suspect that Excite is not distinguishing
between sites that *submit* more than 25 pages and those that
*have* >25 pages. If true (Excite won't say), you may be
de-listed if Excite finds and indexes too many pages from your
site, even if you didn't submit to Excite at all. So the safest
strategy is to create an Excite-specific section in your
robot.txt file that prevents Excite's spider from over-indexing
your site.

PS: Bad as this is, it could be worse -- Webcrawler (also owned
by Excite) now indexes only one page per site!

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