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By June 15, 2000 Some search engines make it easy to confirm that your web page is in their catalogs. With others, it can be more difficult. Below are the best ways to find your web pages in the major search engines.
Go (Infoseek) The first method reveals every page under the root domain. If you are under someone else's domain, the second method will narrow the search to pages under your area. The last method will find a specific page. Note that the URLs don't include the www prefix. You can add this, but if these search engines have indexed your pages without them, the pages won't appear. You're covered both ways by leaving off the www prefix. Don't use the http:// prefix, either.
HotBotM domain:searchenginewatch.com After your search, you will usually be shown either one or two web pages from any site that contains the domain you entered. For example, two pages are listed from Search Engine Watch because it can be found at either http://searchenginewatch.com or http://www.searchenginewatch.com. Although both addresses resolve to the same place, HotBot still considers them to be different sites. Therefore, it displays one page for each site. In order to see all your pages, you next need to click on the "See results from this site only" link, as circled below. What happens if you need to see pages from a particular section of a web site? This is especially important for those hosted within someone else's domain, such as with CompuServe or AOL. In these cases, you would have a web address such as:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mysite/ HotBot offers a Check URL page that can help you narrow your focus. It can be found at: http://www.hotbot.com/help/checkurl.asp Unfortunately, the page isn't particularly intuitive. Instead, you may find it easier to use the domain: and originurlpath: power commands. We've already seen how the domain: command works above. We can combine it with the originurlpath: command to narrow a search to a particular directory within a site. For example, this search: domain:searchenginewatch.com originurlpath:reports works to find all pages from within this section of Search Engine Watch: http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/ Similarly, this: domain:searchenginewatch.com originurlpath:ekgs finds only pages from this subsection of the section below: http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/ekgs/ For the CompuServe and AOL examples above, these commands would bring up pages from those sections:
domain:ourworld.compuserve.com originurlpath:mysite
AltaVista Should you need to find a particular page or a section of a web site, use the url: command, which works just as at Go.
Excite www.searchenginewatch.com/news.html Bear in mind that any pages containing this URL will appear, with no guarantee yours will be first. Generally, your page will come near the top, if it is in the catalog. You might also try seaching for the root domain, to find many pages from the same site at once. Enter your root URL, such as: www.searchenginewatch.com then choose List By Web Site, which will help concentrate your pages together.
Lycos http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html Unfortunately, this service really only confirms if a page has been visited by the Lycos spider. That's not the same as the page actually being present in the Lycos index. To see if your pages are really in the index, you'll need to search for them creatively. Start off by searching for your root domain, such as: searchenginewatch.com Usually, some of your pages will be listed. If not, try the search again, but drop off the www prefix and any suffixes, such as .com. For example: searchenginewatch To find particular pages, or if the suggestions above fail, try searching for unique text on the page or for words in the title. Enter your page title, or several words from it. Remember, if the words are common, you may not find the page among the others that will match your search.
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Other Resources --Danny Sullivan reprinted from SearchEngineWatch.com |
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