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Subject:RE: How to promote a Web site? From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:44:24 -0500
An important question here is -- do you mean the posts show up when you
do a *general search of the whole web* or when you do a *newsgroup
search*? If they only show up when you do a newsgroup search, that
might be a special case of a "newsgroup spider" doing its thing.
Furthermore, even if our posts do show up in a general search, that may
be because they end up in the archives on the TECHWR-L website -- and
I'm sure Eric has submitted &that& to a search engine.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:39 AM
To: Downing, David; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: How to promote a Web site?
I think it's the later...how else would email posts to the techwr site
end up in Google. I really doubt that Eric submits the emails to a
search engine.
Do you Eric?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Isogon Corporation http://www.isogon.com
"Realizing Your Business Goals
Through Software Asset Management"
-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-techwr-l-143723 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-143723 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com] On Behalf Of Downing,
David
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:26 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: How to promote a Web site?
This leads me to ask related question, I read in an article in INTERCOM
awhile back, that if you don't submit your website to a search engine,
the "spider" programs out there will never pick it up unless another
website that is indexed contains a link to it. But I've also heard that
those spiders routinely crawl the web and pick up anything and
everything out there. Which is correct?
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