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Re: AltaVista time to list From Dennis Savoy on 12 Dec '98 replying to AltaVista time to list posted by Chris >Has anyone else noticed that recently submitted pages to AltaVista cannot be found in the top 50 listings on ANY keyword search. I was wondering if there is some sort of waiting period before your site will show up. I am having a hard time fine tuning my site if I cannot even see how is is ranking in the first place. Dose anyone have any sort of an answer for me. Try it for yourself, search a keyword and look at the last updated dates. Very interesting..... Chris, Goodday, use the "Advanced" search in AV to find your site. Click on Advanced to the right in the AV search page. In the "Range of dates:" From: put the date you indexed your Web page. If your pages are in the top 30, try it again, but back the date one month and see if your pages are still listed, if yes, back up 1 more month if still listed in the top 30 for the three months you might have a winner. Dennis Savoy

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>>Has anyone else noticed that recently submitted pages to AltaVista cannot be found in the top 50 listings on ANY keyword search. I was wondering if there is some sort of waiting period before your site will show up. I am having a hard time fine tuning my site if I cannot even see how is is ranking in the first place. Dose anyone have any sort of an answer for me. Try it for yourself, search a keyword and look at the last updated dates. Very interesting..... > >Chris, >Goodday, use the "Advanced" search in AV >to find your site. Click on Advanced to the right in the AV >search page. >In the "Range of dates:" From: put the date you indexed your Web page. >If your pages are in the top 30, try it again, but back the date one >month and see if your pages are still listed, if yes, back up 1 more >month if still listed in the top 30 for the three months you might >have a winner. >Dennis Savoy