SA Search Engine at a Glance
Size
Spider Class
Meta Tag support
Frame support
Image Map support
Alt Text support
HTML Comments
Url Searching
Embedded Directory
Submission URL
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150 Thousand Urls (approx)
Shallow
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Submit
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SUBMISSION POLICY
SA Search Engine has a very simple submission policy. Only domain names without paths are accepted and META keywords and descriptions are required.
- You may only submit one URL per site.
- The spider will try to travel through the home page contained in your Web page.
- URLs with special characters such as the ampersand (&) and percent sign (%) cannot be added.
HTML FACTS
SA Search Engine strips out all HTML. No support for frames, or imagemaps.
RANKING METHODS
SA Search Engine has this to say about their ranking methods
- Decide two or three terms or phrases on which to focus your efforts -- the "hot" keywords that our 7 million users are most likely to search for. Give those words priority in your HTML. Important words should appear more frequently, in larger headings and closer to the top of the screen if not actually in the page title. An introductory paragraph with descriptive text that mentions your "hot" keywords will help our software create a better abstract of your site.
- Graphical pages are hard to index in the Lycos search, no matter how cool they may look! The ALT attribute of an IMG tag will be analyzed and included in your listing, but we cannot analyze the content of images -- the more text, and the more content, the better.
- If your site contains frames, make sure you use a <NOFRAMES> section. We cannot analyze the content within your frames, but any body text in the <NOFRAMES> section will be indexed. This also addresses a portability issue, since some browsers are not capable of viewing frames.
Its important to note that the lycos system is basically going to use the first 200 or so visible characters from your page as your page summary in their system.
SUMMARY
SA Search Engine is one of the best South African search engines available online. The keys to developing decent ranking within them lies entirely in a combined use of Meta Tags.
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