Jeeves knows he hates me

[Delimanran]

A couple months ago I submitted my new website to ask jeeves. I think it costed me $26. After about three weeks Jeeves finally crawled my site and added my main page. Now I find myself six months later and I still only have my main page on ask jeeves with no ranking on anything good with the crawler never going past my main page. I e-mailed Ask Jeeves and asked them whats going on and they said they only guarantee the main page to be listed on a paid listing and that I was out of luck.

What's also weird is I created another website on a totally different topic and it got automatically added into Ask Jeeves within two days and I never even had to submit it or pay the $26. On top of that after about two weeks I noticed other pages of the new site showing up in Jeeves and recieving rankings.

Did I just ruin my first website's chances on the Ask Jeeves engine by paying? It just seems a little backwards

[DPAGuy]

You know, i swore I would never post again in this forum and now I've done gone and made a liar out of myself.

Yes, you wasted your money paying for inclusion.

No, you have not ruined your site.

Look around here for SEO for on page, in site, off site techniques. Make sure your first site is in good shape both in code, content, structure and factors. Then get QUALITY back links and I will bet you'll get quite a few more pages picked up in addition to much higher SERP rankings.

Jeeves is not a stand alone engine..lol Remember, many minor engines are blended. They use a limited database and combine it with data from majors.

Get directory listings for all your sites - these are easy one way links - in every quality directory both national and regional. Don't put your site into any directory that requires a link back. (That's a link farm IMHO not a directory)

Paid inclusion in the big boys is fine. Regional paid directory listings is dependent on traffic for your targeted KW vs number of visitors you might expect to receive.

Remember to do deep linking. ie. link to pages deeper into your site. Not just your home page. Vary your KW phrases etc.

Remember, quality back links will take care of getting your site and pages listed in the engines.

Link Link Link Link and a few more Links....But make sure they are QUALITY and RELEVANT to your site content. Nothing worse, even if you don't get caught, than spamming the engines with bogus links.

[Delimanran]

Thanks DPA guy for the quick response and great advice. Here's the problem. My site is already search engine optimized(or at least to the best of my limited knowledge). All the other crawlers have no problem crawling my site and it has over 500 pages listed in google. Since my site is also a usefull community based site there is lots of IBLs to it from sites within it's topic. I'm wondering if Ask Jeeves purposely sets their robots to only spider 1 page (you pay for one you get one) of your site for paying members. After all if your a big enough sucker to pay once you might as well pay by the page. I'm curious, does anyone have any theories on this?