Re: How to promote a Web site?

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

The latter is correct, but because techwr-l is also shadowed to a Usenet
newsgroup, posts on the list can also be found in Groups searches.

There's a file you can put in your web server folders with a command that is
supposed to keep spiders from indexing the pages in that folder. It's not
there in most web servers by default, and I doubt site such as techwr-l
would want such a restriction because the ability to seach for the valuable
information that's here would be restricted.

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"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> wrote in message news:233389 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 

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?


-----Original Message-----
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[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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