Subject: Re: HOWTOs and more exposure for MacBSD
To: Steve Allen <allen@cssg4.cslab.ds.boeing.com>
From: Adam Forsyth <forsytad@martin.luther.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/08/1996 14:23:36
On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Steve Allen wrote:

> On Mar 7,  8:07pm, Adam Forsyth wrote:
> >> I only managed to look through 410 of them before the list expired (slow
> >> link), but I didn't see my page there.  Lycos, on the other hand, did have
> >> several references to my page.
> >
> >Try http://www.submit-it.com
> >
> >It has a form that you fill out information about your page on.  Then it 
> >allows you to submit your page to various search engines.  Some I haven't 
> >ever heard of too.
> 
> Yes, I did that.  However, despite the fact that PlayerPRO and NetBSD
> dominate my page, Yahoo judged it to be a "personal page" and relegated
> me to the "entertainment/people" section.  I haven't checked to see if
> it actually got added there...

I have heard that some of the search engines can be fooled into putting 
you page where you want it by putting a word repeatedly in comments.  
Pages of NetBSD NetBSD..... all commented out.  I don't know 
specifically if it works with yahoo or not, though. 


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