wige
06-07-2007, 10:35 AM
It seems that despite their marketing blitz, Ask.com is still pretty much ignored (by searchers, and not discussed here much either it seems). However, I want to do well on all the search engines....
My company web site was originally created in the mid nineties, and was not updated until last March when I started here and completely redesigned the web site. We now have or are building toward top positions for our major terms in Google, MSN and Yahoo. Ask, however, has only indexed our home page, and about two dozen pages that were deleted over a year ago.
Our site uses 301 redirects, that have existed since the redesign, to ensure any old links are remapped correctly, and we have only a basic robots.txt file to restrict our image and data feed folders, with no rules that should keep ask out of anywhere else.
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting our site crawled by Ask, or getting our site updated in their index? After a year, I doubt it is a matter of crawl or update speed. Any thoughts or suggestions are as always appreciated.
My company web site was originally created in the mid nineties, and was not updated until last March when I started here and completely redesigned the web site. We now have or are building toward top positions for our major terms in Google, MSN and Yahoo. Ask, however, has only indexed our home page, and about two dozen pages that were deleted over a year ago.
Our site uses 301 redirects, that have existed since the redesign, to ensure any old links are remapped correctly, and we have only a basic robots.txt file to restrict our image and data feed folders, with no rules that should keep ask out of anywhere else.
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting our site crawled by Ask, or getting our site updated in their index? After a year, I doubt it is a matter of crawl or update speed. Any thoughts or suggestions are as always appreciated.