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AltaVista: Submit New URL

Submitting New URLs

Please submit only one URL. Our spider will explore your site by following links.
Do not submit a description or keywords with a URL. To control the abstract served back with your page, check the Help section for the use of the META tag.
Remember that URLs are case-sensitive, and please check your spelling.

When you submit a URL, we attempt to fetch the document immediately.

If the page is successfully fetched, it is added to the index. It should be available for queries typically in less than a day, possibly two days for our mirror sites. The URL will also be given to our spider, Scooter, which will follow all links and index most of your site over time.
NEW - If the page is no longer valid (error 404 or the like), it will be removed from the index. You should feel free to use this feature to remove old pages that Scooter has not yet revisited. Simply submitting the URL of an invalid page will cause it to be removed.
If the page cannot be fetched for temporary reasons, for example if your server is down or if the network is congested, no action is taken.

We also accept submissions of URLs through Scott Banister's Submit It! service.

Excluding Pages from the Index

Our spider will find any URL connected to the main body of the Web through even one link. If you don't want your entire site to be indexed, we strongly advise that you take advantage of the Robots Exclusion Standard by setting up a /robots.txt file. It only takes a minute, and gives you complete control over what fraction of your site is indexed. The file looks like:

User-agent: *		# directed to all spiders, not just Scooter
Disallow: /cgi-bin/sources
Disallow: /access_stats
Disallow: /cafeteria/lunch_menus/

Any URL matching one of these patterns will be ignored by robots visiting your site. This file is read by Scooter every few days, so changes may not take immediate effect.

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